Funding Your Research

Funding Opportunities at MSU Denver

The Undergraduate Research & Creative Scholarship Program offers Mini-Grants up to $500.

STEM majors can apply for funding through CO-WY AMP.

If your project involves community research, ask your faculty mentor to apply for a Community Based Research Grant.

Student Activities offers funding to support student travel to conferences through the Student Travel Program.

External Funding

Funding opportunities exist outside of MSU Denver. The following is only a partial list.

• American Physiological Society Research Awards
• New England Historical Society Research Fellowships
• Psi Chi Undergraduate Research Grants
• Society of Wetland Scientists Student Research Grant Program
• American Heart Association Founders Affiliate Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program
• Bat Conservation Research Awards
• Geological Society of America Research Grants
• GCA Fellowship in Urban Forestry
• Hudson River Foundation Tibor T. Polgar Fellowship Program
• Huntington’s Disease Society of America Donald A. King Summer Research Fellowship
• American Academy of Audiology Research Grants
• EPA Fellowships
• Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship Program
• Evolving Earth Foundation Research Grant for Students
• Garden Club of America Scholarships and Research Awards
• ORISE and ORAU Scholarships
• Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research
• Explorers Club
• P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet – EPA
• National Geographic Young Explorers Grant Program

Travel and Supply Grants

• American Society of Microbiology Travel Grants
• Society of Toxicology Travel Awards
• Society for Applied Anthropology Human Rights Defender Travel Award
• Travel Awards for Biologists