Students planning on conducting research in tropical areas are encouraged to seek additional funding beyond TRI to support their work. Some sources of funding both within and external to Yale are listed below.
Yale Databases
- Student Grants and Fellowships Database
- FES Career Development Office
- Graduate School of Arts and Sciences McDougal Graduate Student Center
- MacMillan Center Grants and Fellowships
Yale Grants and Fellowships
- MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowships - Social sciences
- MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Grants - Social sciences
- Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale - Interdisciplinary Summer Research
- Dreyfus Fellowships - Children and grandchildren of U.S. Foreign Service Officers
- East Asian Studies - Summer Travel and Research Grants, Field Research Grants, Summer Language Mini-Grants
- Leitner Program Research Grants - International political economy
- Charles Kao Fund - Technology transfer in East/Southeast Asia
- Smith Richardson Foundation Grants - Security studies and political history
- Latin American and Iberian Studies - Tinker Field Research Grants
- African Studies - Lindsay Fellowships, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
- Southeast Asia Studies Research Grants
- South Asian Studies - Travel and Summer Research Grants
- Women, Religion, and Globalization Project Awards
- Hixon Center for Urban Ecology - Student Research Fellowship
- Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS)
External Grants and Fellowships
- FES X Funds - External funding opportunities compiled for F&ES students
- Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation Seed Grant
- The Society for Ethnobotany Richard Evans Schultes Research Award
- Garden Club of America offers a variety of awards and fellowships
- Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research
- Fulbright Fellowship
- Amazon Conservation Association (ACA)
- Arnold Arboretum Ashton Award for Asian Tropical Biology
- Annie's Fellowship in Sustainable Agriculture
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Center for Environmental Research Fellowships