Doctoral Student Research

Graduate Methods Courses

Core Graduate Methods Courses 2008 - 2009
UCAIHS Clearance Process for Students

Internal Research Grant Opportunities

Doctoral Student Teaching Excellence Award 2007-2008
Up to 3 students will be awarded $1000 each and a certificate in recognition of this honor. Recipients may be asked to present their ideas on teaching excellence at an open forum.

Mitchell Leaska Dissertation Research Award (pdf)
The Mitchell Leaska Dissertation Award honors the memory of Mitchell Leaska who was Professor of English at the Steinhardt School for more than 40 years. This fund awards $5,000 non-renewable stipends to help students complete their doctoral dissertations. Awards are available to students in Teaching and Learning whose dissertations and areas of specialty are math, science, or social studies education, to students in Applied Psychology, and to doctoral students in Educational Sociology.

Dean's Grants for Student Research
Outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in the Steinhardt School of Education are invited to apply for this award.

Doctoral Travel Funds
The fund provides for expenses associated with presenting papers at scholarly and professional conferences. Steinhardt doctoral students who have approved dissertation proposals are encouraged to apply.

External Research Grant Opportunities

Kellogg Health Scholars Program
The Kellogg Health Scholars Program seeks to develop new leadership in the effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities and to secure equal access to the conditions and services essential for achieving healthy communities.
Through this Program, leaders will emerge with the competence to undertake research adding to our knowledge about the nature of social disparities in health and about interventions to reduce those disparities; the capacity to partner with communities in carrying out research and building policy advocacy; and the skills to inform and support policy makers who seek to reduce and eliminate health disparities

NYC Leadership Academy Spring Internship
The NYC Leadership Academy (http://www.nycleadershipacademy.org/) is an independent non-profit organization that recruits, develops, and supports effective school leaders, with a focus on preparing principals to lead New York City's hardest-to-staff schools. The NYC Leadership Academy is looking for a Graduate Assistant for the spring semester (mid January until late May preferably).

Mainzer Fellowship in Gender Studies
The Mainzer fellowships provide funding each year to enable two NYU graduate students whose work, in whatever field, involves gender, to attend an eight-week course in Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. They will be able to attend University lectures and to use the libraries and other facilities. The stipend of $8,000 covers air fare, tuition, college fees and room and board.