Another earthquake hits Haiti

According to the US Geological Services, another powerful earthquake has hit Haiti near Port-au-Prince, about 50min ago with a 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale. Please visit either Wyclef Jeans's charity Yele Haiti or the Red Cross to make a donation to help the earthquake victims.

Scholarships for women and minorities

 

For the most updated funding opportunities, be sure to click on "fellowships and scholarships" in the label cloud ----->

 If you would like to share a funding opportunity, please send an email to Minority.Scientist(at) gmail.com and include the funding organization and a link to the website where the information can be located. Thanks!   

• FREE scholarship databases (via UCSF student financial aid office website)
  CareerMD: Provides career management resources for medical students, residents, and doctors. It features FellowshipFIND, a comprehensive database of fellowships related to different medical specialties.
  
  FastAid: A scholarship search database co-sponsored by David Cassidy, author of The Scholarship Book. FastAid is helpful to international students.
  
  FastWEB: An extremely popular database with more than 1.5 million scholarships, fellowships, grants, and loans. Students can set up a mailbox with personalized information so that they may check for new awards and update their portfolio periodically. New scholarship information can be e-mailed to students.
  
  FinAid: The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid: An extremely comprehensive guide to all student financial aid information and free scholarship, grant, and fellowship search databases. This website offers advice on college education planning and scholarship scam alerts.
  
  GrantsNet: Useful for medical and graduate students interested in biomedical or life sciences research funding, postdoc toral scholars, and research administrators. GrantsNet allows users to save and update their scholarship profile and to receive e-mail alerts about new funding opportunities. Useful for international students.
  
  IEFA: International Education Financial Aid: Scholarships and private loans for international students and students interested in studying abroad. Some are also available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
  
  NextStudent Scholarship Search Engine: One of the oldest scholarship databases that contains over 6.2 million scholarships based on many different qualifications and a broad range of criteria such as academic achievements, community services, family heritage, and special talents or aptitude.
  
  SRN Express: Helpful to international students, especially Canadian citizens. This database also includes student loan forgiveness programs for graduates who need alternatives for repayment.
  
  SchoolSoup: World's Largest Scholarship Database
  
  Student Awards: Canada’s free scholarship search service website.
   
• List of scholarships for women 
• American Society of Hematology (ASH) Minority Medical Scholar Award Program 
• Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) Renate W. Chasman Scholarship for Women 
• Huge list of undergraduate/graduate scholarships, fellowships, etc. sponsored by FASEB
  
• 100 Free Minority Scholarships: Free listing of scholarships for underrepresented minorities pursing science-related degrees
  
• American Chemical Society: Chemistry Scholarships for African American, Hispanic, and American Indian Students max $5,000 
• American Geological Institute: AGI Minority Participation Program  
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers: Minority Scholarship Awards for Incoming College Freshmen   $1,000; Minority Scholarship Awards for College Students $1,000
  
• American Physical Society: Minority Scholarship $2,000-$3000 
• American Society for Microbiology: ASM-Microbiology Undergraduate Research Fellowships $6,000  ASM Robert D. Watkins Graduate Research Fellowship $63,000 (over 3 years)
• Latino College Dollars: Search database for scholarships for Latinos
  
• NASA: Motivating Undergraduates in Science and Technology (MUST) up to $10,000
  
• National Institutes of Health:Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Pre-doctoral Fellowships (F31) to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research 
• National Science Foundation: SBE Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Follow-up Research Starter Grants (MPRF) 
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: Undergraduate Fellowships for Minorities Summer Research Program $468/week for 10 or 12 weeks 

More  funding opportunities
 American Physiological Society:
American Psychological Association Fellowships in the Neurosciences
American Society for Microbiology Graduate Research Fellowship

FASEB/MARC Programs

Ford Foundation Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships

Graduate Women in Science Fellowships
L’Oreal Women in Science International Fellowships
SACNAS Genome Scholars Fellowship Program
Society for Neuroscience Scholars Program
UNCF/Merck Science Initiative

If you are a PhD student who has already selected a thesis laboratory and you belong to an underrepresented group, your thesis adviser may be able to apply for a research supplement. For more info, visit the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Supplements (GRS) to Current ENG Awards to Broaden Participation (nsf 09-045)

Kid science

I woke up this morning and found my eight-year-old daughter watching this cool science show for kids called DragonflyTV on the PBS channel.

DragonflyTV is hosted by teenagers Mariko and Michael and showcases kids, who were about 10 to 17 years old, performing scientific investigations in their local surroundings. As I watched the show, I became so impressed by the scientific questions these kids posed, the approach they devised to test their hypotheses, and how they presented their data.  In this episode, Malformed Frogs, Susie and Katie continued to impress me as they sought out to determine why the frogs in their local pond were displaying malformed

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