Leadership & Opportunities

Below you will find a selection of opportunities for students, please note that this is not a inclusive list.  If you have suggestions for additional information that should be added, please email womenrc@rice.edu. 

 

Opportunities Below

• Scholarships and Fellowships for Women 
• Graduate Opportunities 
• Internship Opportunities 
• Additional Opportunities 

 

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Scholarships and Fellowships for Women

 

Please see the Rice Office of Fellowships website: http://fellowships.rice.edu/ for more opportunities available to Rice University students.

•  American Society of Women Accountants 
•  Americans for UNFPA - Award for Healthy and Dignity of Women 
•  Association for Women in Science 
•  Association of Women Geoscientists 
•  AAUW Fellowhips and Grants  
•  Funding from Women in the Arts 
•  Glamour’s Top 10 College Women Competition 
•  Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 
•  HORIZONS Scholarship - Women in Defense 
•  Institute for Women’s Policy Research 
•  Jane M Klausman Women in Business Scholarship  
•  Partnership of Women in Science and Engineering 
•  P.E.O. Sisterhood Funding 
•  Running Start Congressional Fellowship  
•  Student Award for the Health and Dignity of Women 
•  SWE Scholarship Program  
•  Women’s Sports Foundation 
•  Zonta International 

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Graduate Opportunities

• American Association of University Women Educational Foundation  
• AT&T Labs Fellowship for Women and Minorities 
• L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science  
• National Science Foundation  
• National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC)   
• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships 
• Society of Women Engineers Scholarship Program 
• Women's Fellowship Database gives alphabetical listing of Graduate Fellowships for women. 

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Internship Opportunities

• UNIFEM 
• National Organization for Women 
• The Office on Women’s Health (US Dept of H&HS) 
• Program for Women in Science and Engineering (Iowa State) 
• Women for Women International 
• APS/IBM research internship 
• Mickley Leland Energy Internship (Department of Energy) 
• Sewell-Belmont House  
• Feminist Majority Foundation Job Listings  
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research 
• FBI Honor Internship 
• Women’s Sports Foundation Internship 
• Women’s Research and Education Institute 
• Wider Opportunities for Women 

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Additional Resources

• International Federation of University Women
  • http://www.ifuw.org/fellowships/index.shtml 
   
• TX conference for women
  • http://www.txconferenceforwomen.org/ 
  • Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Funding 
   
• Global Fund for women national partnership of women and families
  • http://www.nationalpartnership.org/site/PageServer 
   
• Legal Momentum
  • http://www.legalmomentum.org/ 
   
• Soapbox Summer Camp  and Soapbox Feminist Winter Term
  • Feminist Summer Camp 2011 is an intensive week-long program for college students interested in meeting with progressive leaders and national feminist organizations in New York City.  Our program emphasizes career development and will include a day-long internship and opportunities to network with professionals and learn about career and internship opportunities.
   

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