Funding Opportunities
The Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology offers competitive fellowships to MS students and postdocs.
- View this scholarship page in late Fall 2021 for possible scholarship opportunities for the 2022 school year.
- Student Research Opportunities
RST students are encouraged to apply for external funding. Below is a list of nationally competitive fellowships and funding databases. The links provide a basic summary of each fellowship. If you have specific questions regarding one of these fellowships, please contact the sponsor.
- A.T. Anderson Memorial Scholarship (Sponsor: American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES)
- Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Foundation (ARCS) Scholar
- Air Force (AFOSR)
- American Association of University Women (AAUW)
- American Philosophical Society (APA) John Hope Franklin Dissertation Fellowship
- ASEE/ NSF Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship
- Awards for African Americans, including Dissertation Research
- Biomechanics in Regenerative Medicine Training Program (BiRM) (Funded by the NIH)
- Cardiovascular Bioengineering Training Program (CBTP) (Funded by the NIH)
- Cellular approaches to Tissue Engineering and Regeneration Training Program (CATER) (Funded by the NIH)
- College Scholarships, Graduate Fellowship & Postdoctoral Awards for Minorities
- Community of Science Database of Funding Opportunities
- Council for International Exchange of Scholars
- Developing Global Scientists and Engineers: International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) and Doctorial Dissertation Enhancement Projects (DDEP)
- Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Doctorial Dissertation Research Grants
- DOD Armed Forces Arm-IV Postdoctoral Fellowship. Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM)
- Ford Foundation
- Foundation for Science & Disability
- Hertz Foundation
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gilliam Fellowship
- Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program (IARO)
- InfoEd International
- International Federation of University Women Dissertation Awards
- IRIS
- K. Leroy Irvis Fellowship (Swanson School of Engineering)
- McGowan Trainee Career Advancement Program (MTCAP)
- National Academy of Sciences Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program
- National Defense Science & Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowships
- National GEM Consortium
- National Hispanic Scholarship Fund
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences(Sponsored by NIH)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fellowships - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards
- National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF)
- NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Program (Sponsor: NCAA)
- NIDDR Mary E. Switzer Fellowships
- NIH fellowship
- NRC Research Fellowship and Associateship Programs
- NSF fellowship
- NSPC Graduate Fellowship
- Office of Naval Research
- Pre-Doctoral Fellowship: Disability Policy Research in Economics
- Provost’s Development Fund Award (PDFA)
- Research Associateship Programs (Sponsor: National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies of Sciences
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research
- Scholarships4Development Database
- SMART Scholarship Program
- Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- The AAHD Frederick J. Krause Scholarship on Health and Disability - AAHD website.
- The Collegiate Inventors Competition (Sponsor: National Inventors Hall of Fame)
- The Hartwell Foundation
- The NDSEG Fellowship program
- The National Academies
- The Naval Research Enterprise Intern Program
- The Pittsburgh Foundation
- The Provost’s Office - University of Pittsburgh
- The Scott and Paul Pearsall Scholarship
- Training Grants – The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC)
- NESCO Fellowships
- University of Pittsburgh, Office of Research
- Whitaker International Award For Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers
- Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships