Cognitive Science Scholarships
Support Your Science Education
The thing about Cognitive Science is that the field is comprised of intricately related disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, and even computer science. This wide realm all adds up to explorations in how humans and machines think, communicate and perceive the outside world.
You will find that there are as many undergraduate scholarships as there are graduate. In fact many cognitive science undergrads go on to study at the graduate and even post-graduate level.
While the following are fairly focused scholarships, there are many others in associated science disciplines that might apply for the right student, as well.
Scholarship Programs
Through the University of California-San Diego, grad students may qualify for the National Science Foundation sponsored fellowships in Vision and Learning in Humans and Machines, a program suited to students pursuing a degree in the cognitive sciences. Fellows earn a “salary” of $30,000 as well as additional stipends to cover program-specific needs.
Merck Pharmaceuticals and the United Negro College Fund, two heavy-hitters in their own sectors, form the perfect combination of powers to offer African American graduate students the UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation Fellowships. Applicants must be on in the midst of their dissertation research in the sciences, including cognitive. Projects must be well defined to be considered and applicants must be above board in their academic achievement. Up to $52,000 possible in fellowship money.
The Association for Women in Science offers a number of national scholarships. But, the organization also works on a more regional level through its state associations to extend education funds, as well. The San Diego AWIS provides a handful of competitive scholarships to female students engaged in all manner of science studies. Applicants may hail from any type of educational background, including community or technical college, undergraduate or graduate.
Paid internships for cognitive science majors are available at Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation specifically for those students who have a desire to pursue “human language technologies.” Awards $4800 for the program and another $1800 to cover expenses.
The Cognitive Science department at Indiana University offers its undergraduate majors the opportunity to earn up to $1,000 in scholarship money to be used toward a summer research program. The Cognitive Science Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship accepts applicants based on a highly evolved project proposal.