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Graduate Student Fellowship Program (Collaborative Ph.D. Programs)

American Museum of Natural History

Funding Amount

Varies

Deadline

Rolling / Open

Grant Type

Foundation

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Eligible organizations

  • D. program and to the AMNH Graduate Student Fellowships Program
  • 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)

Other requirements

  • To be eligible for the AMNH Graduate Fellowship, students must apply to both the host University’s Ph
  • Only new, first-time Ph
  • D. applicants will be considered
  • To be eligible students must apply to a Ph

Not eligible / not funded

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

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; and
* Stony Brook University in astronomy and astrophysics.

Eligibility

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* 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

What American Museum of Natural History actually gave

Source: IRS Form 990, 2025

Grants in 2025
23
Total given
$4.32M
Median grant
$73K
Range
$12K–$1.9M
  • By dollars: New York 78%, Massachusetts 5%, Utah 4%. Top recipient cities: New York, NY; Bronx, NY; Salt Lake City, UT.
  • 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
  • 13% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.

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Fields of Work

  • Science research

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