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  • Fulcrum Translation Grant
    8/28/26
    The Fulcrum Translation Grant is a $5,000 scholarship for graduate and postdoctoral researches in any scientific field who are actively helping move promising work toward real-world use. This grant is intended to help support everyday costs such as transportation, meals and personal expenses. 
  • Barry Goldwater Summer Research Internship Program
    8/28/26
    The Goldwater Summer Research Internship is a 10-week research opportunity for college freshmen and sophomores. Interns will gain hands-on experience in Chemistry, CISE, Engineering, Life Sciences, or Physics and Astronomy at academic and national laboratories across the United States.
  • Harvey Milk Award for Student Leadership
    8/27/26
    The Harvey Milk Award for Student Leadership, named in honor of University at Albany class of 1951 alumnus and LGBTQIA+ rights champion Harvey Milk, recognizes two outstanding students (one upper-level undergraduate student and one graduate student) who have dedicated their time to improving LGBTQIA+ inclusiveness on their campus for fellow students. The selected awardees for the Harvey Milk Award for Student Leadership will receive a one-time $1,500 non-tuition scholarship award. Other nominees will receive a certificate of recognition for their leadership and commitment to fostering an inclusive and welcoming campus culture for the LGBTQIA+ community on their respective campuses.
  • American Slovenian Education Foundation (ASEF) Junior Fellowships
    8/24/26
    ASEF fellowship programs provide student financial and other support, allowing fellows to focus on their research. The purpose of the fellowship program is to strengthen research and study exchange between Slovenia and other countries to give talented Slovenian students the ability to realize their potential to the fullest.
  • Presidential Fellowships
    8/20/26
    The UB Presidential Fellowship Program helps to fund outstanding graduate students. To be eligible, a nominee must be a new applicant to a PhD program and must be fully funded, including a teaching, graduate or research assistant. Nominees must also have a cumulative undergraduate grade point average of 3.40 or higher upon admission.
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
    8/12/26
    The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious values in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, and particularly to help PhD candidates in these fields complete their dissertation work in a timely manner. In addition to topics in religious studies or in ethics (philosophical or religious), dissertations appropriate to the Newcombe fellowship competition might explore the ethical implications of foreign policy, the values influencing political decisions, the moral codes of other cultures, and religious or ethical issues reflected in history or literature. 
  • Fulbright Student Grant for Graduate Study, Research Abroad or English Teaching Assistantship
    8/12/26
    The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English teaching assistant programs. During their grants, Fulbright recipients will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.
  • Drs. Henry J. and Bonita R. Durand Scholarship
    7/29/26
    The Durand Scholarship is intended to assist students who encounter financial obstacles that can hinder progression towards earning a degree and/or graduating. It was created by Drs. Henry J. and Bonita R. Durand, PhD ’02, MS ’93, to support and encourage the educational ambitions of graduates of the Cora P. Maloney Center.