Office of Undergraduate Research
Legare 223
Phone: 803-777-1141
Email: our@sc.edu

Search for Funding

Looking for money for your research? The following links will help.

PLEASE NOTE: All funding requests must go through the Sponsored Awards Management Office. Please contact them for more information: http://sam.research.sc.edu/  

Do not let the name mislead you, Community of Science (COS) is the most comprehensive searchable database for funding opportunities. It is not just for biology, engineering, chemistry, etc. Funding is available for music, law, economics, costuming, history, etc. To use the system, you will need to set up a FREE user account. The database is updated daily and includes over 18,000 records from public and private sources. Tips for students: use the “Main Search” page. Type a keyword under “All Fields” or select topics under “Keywords”. Under “Requirements”, select undergraduate student. Under funding type, select one of the following: Research, Training/Scholarship/Fellowship, Travel, Artistic pursuit, or Dissertation/Thesis. For Faculty: COS also provides the opportunity to search for researchers at other institutions that may have similar interests – check out “Search COS Expertise”. Also, you can set up the system to send you weekly electronic funding alerts.

Other options:

1. Federal
   1. National Institutes of Health
      1. Grants and Funding Opportunities
      2. NIH Student Research and Training
      3. National Institutes of Health Undergraduate Scholarship Program
      4. National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research
      5. NIH: Research Training Opportunities for Minorities
          
   2. National Science Foundation
      1. NSF: Find Funding
      2. NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates **excellent summer research opportunities**
      3. NSF Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology
      4. NSF: International Research Experience for Students (IRES)
          
   3. Other Federal
      1. General (all competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies)
      2. US Department of Justice (DOJ)
      3. Department of Education
      4. Department of Commerce’s Telecommunications and Information Administration
      5. NASA
      6. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
      7. National Center for Environmental Research
      8. Department of Energy Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships
      9. NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
      10. NOAA Great Lakes Summer Student Fellowship
           

2. Private

   1. National Conferences for Undergraduate Research (NCUR) Summer Support for Exceptional Undergraduates
   2. Henry Luce Foundation Clare Boothe Luce Scholarships in Science and Engineering (for women)
   3. American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Undergraduate Research Fellowship
   4. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) German Studies Research Grant
   5. American Academy of Audiology Student Summer Research Fellowship
   6. American Foundation for Aging Research (AFAR) Research Grants/Fellowships
   7. Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF) Student Traineeships
   8. Office of Biological and Environmental Research Global Change Education Program
   9. Motorola Foundation Grants
   10. Roswell Park Cancer Institute Summer Research Participation Program in Science
   11. AGA Student Fellowship Research Awards
   12. University of Delaware's Graduate College of Marine Studies: Marine Sciences Summer Internship
   13. Sigma Xi: Grants-in-Aid of Research program
   14. Cornell Center for Materials Research: Summer Research Program
   15. Funding for undergrads from the journal Science
        
3. Internal Funding
   1. Research Funding Programs