Tips for searching the Graduate Guide to Grants and Postdoctoral Fellowships Online

• Results are displayed alphabetically first by granting agency, then by grant program(s).
• If you do not enter any search criteria, all fellowships in the database will be displayed.
• Use the Reset button at the bottom of the page to clear all your previous selections and start your search over.
• Be sure to logout when you are finished searching the database.
• If you have done previous searches and know the record ID number of the fellowship you seek, you may search using just that ID number.
• Allowable characters for entering text are letters, numbers, quotation marks, both single and double (" and '), dollar sign ($), period (.), comma (,), and asterisks (*).
• Case does not matter. You may enter search terms in upper- or lower-case. Thus, "FULBRIGHT-HAYS" and "fulbright-hays" will both work. So will "FuLbRiGhT-hAys".
• It is recommended to search for the abbreviation and the expanded phrase, (e.g., "United States" or "US" or "U.S."; Social Science Research Council or SSRC).
• Quoted words are treated as one phrase. Use either single or double quotes.
• A single word surrounded by quotes will be processed in the same way as single word without quotes. (I.e., 'philosophy' is equivalent to just searching for philosophy.)
• Multiple words in a text field (i.e., Name of Program) are joined by OR logic, unless grouped together by quotes.
  Example: 'Harvard' 'University' is equivalent to Harvard OR University and will find all fellowships matching 'Harvard' OR 'University'. Use 'Harvard University' to find just fellowships matching Harvard University.
• Multiple fields are joined by AND logic. In the below example, only fellowships matching all the search criteria will be found.
  Example:
  Name of Program contains 'Harvard University'
  AND Citizenship is 'US'
  AND Women is checked.
• Multiple selections in scrolling list fields (i.e., Application Deadline) are joined by OR logic. In the below example, all fellowships with a deadline of either January or February will be found.
  Example:
  If you select both January and February for Application Deadline, it is equivalent to 'January' OR 'February'.
• There is special logic for the Academic Area field. If you search for 'humanities or social sciences', it will find all fellowships where academic area is 'humanities' OR 'humanities or social sciences' OR 'social sciences'. If you search for 'humanities', it will find all fellowships where academic area is 'humanities' OR 'humanities or social sciences'. If you search for 'social sciences', it will find all fellowships where academic area is 'social sciences' OR 'humanities or social sciences'.
• You can use parts of words in your search. For example, the search term 'nat' in the field Name of Program will find every fellowship that contains the words natural, national, or even international.
• The wildcard character, asterisks (*), may be used in searches as placeholders for arbitrary characters, including spaces.