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Energy Fellowships: The MIT Energy Initiative administers a sponsored fellowship program for outstanding incoming doctoral students, across all five schools, who plan to pursue energy-related studies at MIT.

Legatum Fellowships: The Legatum Center administers a competitive fellowship program for incoming and current MIT graduate students, across all academic disciplines, who demonstrate the potential to create sustainable, for-profit enterprises in low-income countries.

Scholarships and fellowships:   This site provides information for MIT undergraduate and graduate students wishing to compete for prestigious awards, including many for foreign study. The site includes descriptions of the internal MIT selection process, as well as general advice and links to other resources.

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Humanities
Allen Lee Hughes Fellowships for people of color in professional theater
Amelia Earhart Fellowships (Zonta International Foundation) for women of any nationality, in science or engineering
American Psychological Association (APA) Scholarships and Fellowships
American Sociological Association Graduate Funding
Art, Film, Writing Scholarships/Competitions
Ayn Rand Essay Scholarships
Maryland Artists Scholarships

United States Institute of Peace National Peace Essay Contest

Minority and women
25 Scholarship Gateways from Black Excel
Actuarial Scholarships for Minority Students
American Geological Institute Minority Geo-Science
Association for Women in Science Educational Foundation
College Fund/UNCF
Gates Millenium Scholarships
P.E.O. Scholar Awards for US women doctoral students or postdocs
State Farm Insurance Hispanic Scholarships
NACME Scholarship Program
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund
Xerox Scholarships for Students - Technical Minority Scholarship Program

Other
Accounting Scholarships
American Political Science Association Fellowships
Association to Unite the Democracies for work relating to international integration and/or federalism
Byron Hanke Fellowship for research on community associations
Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
Cosmos Club Foundation Grants for supplemental research support
Davis-Putter Scholarships for those actively working for peace and justice
Elderhostel K. Patricia Cross $5,000 Doctoral Research Grant
Humane Studies Fellowships
Institute for Humane Studies Summer Graduate Research Fellowships for Law or PhD students
John Kenneth Galbraith Policy Fellowship Program for public policy or economics
Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship for the fields of art, architecture, dance, landscape architecture, music, theatre, and urban and regional planning
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Scholar Award
Leopold Schepp Foundation Grants
Microsoft Scholarship Program
PARC Sustainability Fellowship
The Roothbert Scholarship Fund for those motivated by "spiritual values"
Student Inventors Scholarships
Tylenol Scholarships
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Educational Foundation Available to U.S. students studying abroad and/or foreign studying within the U.S.

Last updated July 21, 2009