Graduate Funding in Economic Botany

Graduate Funding in Economic Botany/Pharmacognosy

This is by no means a comprehensive list! Send me any additions!

These funding opportunities span the spectrum from general science to ethnobotany, ecology, medicinal plants, and complementary and alternative medicine. When working in an interdisciplinary field, it's possible to find funding where you may not have expected it...

Kurt A. Reynertson kurt(dot)reynertson(at)lehman.cuny.edu (replace with correct puctuation)
(my funding)

Last update 06 July 2004

Any new graduate student should apply for NSF funding. It's due in November every year, and it's best to apply before you start a program or during your first year. If you've completed a year already, it gets harder. (Don't believe the people who say that ethnobotany students don’t get NSF funding. I know a couple who have.)

Ethnobotany/Medicinal Plants/Food Chemistry

Botany In Action is funding ethnobotanical research

Garden Club of America has a few grant possibilities open to students in Medical Botany, tropical botany and conservation.

Herb Society of America supports herbal research with up to $5000 per year.

National Institutes of Health - Predoctoral NRSA Fellowships (up to 5 years of support)
1) Complementary and Alternative Medicine: http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-00-023.html
2) Mental health, drug abuse and addiction, alcohol abuse and alcoholism and environmental health sciences research: http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-99-089.html
3) For minority students: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-00-069.html

Richard Evans Schultes Research Award from the Society for Economic Botany.

The Lindbergh Foundation, deadline for 2005 funding is June 10, 2004. Up to $10,000/year for fieldwork. They like projects that mix technology and conservation.

The Agricultural and Food Chemistry (AGF) Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) offers the following graduate student awards:
1) The Teranishi Graduate Fellowship - $2,500 cash award and plaque.
2) The Withycombe-Charalambous Graduate Student Symposium - Two prizes will be awarded. First prize will receive a cash award of $750 and a plaque. Second place will receive a cash award of $250.
3) George C. Charalambous Fellowship - $2,500

Travel

Fulbright for travel and research abroad. Also for foreign students who want to study in America. Also look at Institute of International Education

Other international (NSF) research support

The Explorer's Club funds trips to exciting places, and I've heard that they are looking to create

American-Scandinavian Foundation funds research in Scandinavia

American Institute of Indian Studies funds research in India (mostly humanities)

Burroughs Wellcome Fund supports research travel grants to the UK

Torrey Botanical Society funds Torrey student members for fieldwork

East Asia Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students [nsf02174]

Richard Evans Schultes Research Award

Ecology

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) STAR Fellowships