Graduate Fellowships with AMNH Partner Institutions Grant

Graduate Fellowships with AMNH Partner Institutions Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
Last Updated: October 03, 2025

Summary

The AMNH Graduate Student Fellowship Program collaborates with top universities to train Ph.D. candidates in various scientific disciplines. Students benefit from mentorship by Museum curators and access to university facilities, enhancing their research capabilities. The program includes partnerships with institutions like Columbia University, NYU, and Stony Brook University. Eligibility is limited to first-time applicants applying to participating Ph.D. programs, ensuring a focused selection of candidates dedicated to scientific advancement.

Overview

The AMNH Graduate Student Fellowship Program is an educational partnership with selected universities, dedicated to the training of Ph.D. candidates in those scientific disciplines practiced at the Museum. The university exercises education jurisdiction over the students and awards the degree. At least one Museum curator serves as a graduate advisor, co-major professor or major professor, and adjunct university faculty member. The student benefits by having the staff and facilities of both the university and the Museum in order to carry on their training and research. The current joint graduate training programs include five universities: Columbia University provides students opportunities in anthropology, paleontology, earth and planetary sciences, and ecology, evolutionary, and environmental biology; Cornell University in entomology;The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in earth and planetary sciences, paleontology, and evolutionary biology;New York University in molecular biology; andStony Brook University in astronomy and astrophysics.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. To be eligible for the AMNH Graduate Fellowship, students must apply to both the host University’s Ph.D. program and to the AMNH Graduate Student Fellowships Program.Only new, first-time Ph.D. applicants will be considered. To be eligible students must apply to a Ph.D. program in the collaborated universities.The current collaborations are with Columbia University, City University of New York (CUNY), Cornell University, Stony Brook University, and New York University (NYU).

Ineligibility

Students already matriculated in a Ph.D. program are not eligible to apply