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•MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDY IN BRITISH UNIVERSITIES. / British Consulate-General / 845 Third Avenue / New York, NY 10022 / (212) 745 0252 / Website: www.marshallscholarship.org
(1) Marshall Scholarships. These scholarships have a tenure of two academic years for the study of any subject leading to the award of a British university degree. Eligibility: U.S. citizens who have obtained a first degree from a U.S. university. A minimum grade point average of 3.7 (A-) for courses after the freshman year is normally required. The scholarship covers tuition, residence and related costs plus a possible marriage allowance. Deadline: Mid-October.
(2)Post-doctoral Fellowships in science and engineering. The Fellowships enable an American scientist or engineer to undertake post-doctoral research for a period of one to two academic years at a British university or research institute.

•MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., PAPERS PROJECT / Summer Internship Program / Stanford University / Cypress Hall D Wing / Stanford, CA 94305-4146 / Website:http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
The internship program provides a unique opportunity for students to participate in important academic research in close collaboration with professional scholars. Students will help catalog, transcribe, and research documents from the early period of the freedom movement. The King's Papers Project is committed to involving students from a diversity of backgrounds. Because students of color have been under-represented at Stanford and elsewhere, the project makes a special effort to recruit such students to work on the project. The summer internship is funded by the James Irvine Foundation and is intended for African-Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans. The 8-week program begins on June and ends August. Deadline is Mid-February . For more information click here

•THE MARY ISABEL SIBLEY FELLOWSHIP / The Phi Beta Kappa Society / 1785 Massachusetts Avenue NW, 4th Floor / Washington, D.C. 20036 / tel. (202)265-3808 / fax: (202)986-1601 / Website:www.pbk.org
The annual Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship is awarded alternately in the fields of Greek and French. The award may be used for the study of Greek language, literature, history, or archaeology, or the study of French language or literature. Candidates must be unmarried women between 25 and 35 years of age who have demonstrated their ability to carry on original research. They must hold the doctorate or have fulfilled all the requirements for the doctorate except the dissertation, and they must be planning to devote full-time work to research during the fellowship year that begins September 1. Eligibility is not restricted to members of Phi Beta Kappa or U.S. citizens. Applications must be filed before January 15. Stipend is $20,000.

•THE MARY ROBERTS RINEHART AWARDS / George Mason University, English Department / MSN 3E4 / Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 / (703) 993-1180 / Email: writing@gmu.edu / Website: www.gmu.edu/departments/writing
To help aspiring authors, the family of the late Mary Roberts Rinehart began a number of years ago awarding small grants to writers whose work showed particular promise. These grants were given to honor Ms. Rinehart, a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work was popular in the earlier decades of the 1900's. In 1983, the Rinehart family established The Mary Roberts Rinehart Fund at George Mason University to finance annual grants of $2000 each are awarded in spring for the best nominated manuscript in fiction, in nonfiction, and in poetry. Deadline is November 30.

• THE McKNIGHT ENDOWMENT FUND FOR NEUROSCIENCE / 710 Second Street South, Suite 400 / Minneapolis, MN 55401/ Phone: 612-333-4220 / Fax: 612-332-3833 / Email: info@mcknight.org / Website:www.mcknight.org/neuroscience
(1)The McKnight Scholar Awards support young scientists who hold the M.D. and/or Ph.D. degree, who have completed formal postdoctoral training, and who demonstrate a commitment to neuroscience. Each year, up to six scholars are selected to receive three years' support. Currently, awards are $75,000 per year. Application - Deadline: January 2.
(2)The McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards. These awards support scientists working on new and unusual approaches to understanding brain function. The program seeks to advance and enlarge the range of technologies available to the neurosciences. It does not support research based primarily on existing techniques. This program provides up to $100,000 per year for two years. Deadlines: Letters of intent are due December 1.
(3)The McKnight Brain Disorders Awards. These awards support innovative efforts to solve the problems of neurological and psychiatric diseases. They encourage research aimed at translating laboratory discoveries about the brain and nervous system into diagnoses and therapies to improve human health. Collaborative projects between basic and clinical neuroscientists are welcomed, as are proposals that help link basic with clinical neuroscience. Awards provide $100,000 per year for three years.

• MELLON FELLOWSHIPS IN HUMANISTIC STUDIES / The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation / CN 5329 Princeton, New Jersey 08543-5329 / (800)899-9963 / Fax: (609)452-0066 / E-mail: mellon@woodrow.org / Web: www.woodrow.org/mellon
These fellowships support exceptionally promising students as they pursue advanced study in the disciplines of the humanities. The Mellon Fellowship is a competitive award for first-year doctoral students only and cannot be deferred. Mellon Fellows are expected to carry a full course load during the nine-month academic year of the fellowship. Summer study is not included. Fellows may not accept supplementary awards or employment, including teaching assistantships. Fellows may take their awards to any accredited graduate program in the United States or Canada. Each year, approximately 85 fellowships are available. The fellowship covers full graduate tuition and required fees for the first year of graduate study and includes a one-year stipend of $17,500. Application deadline is December 1.

•MELLON FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM FOR DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN ORIGINAL SOURCES Council on Library and Information Resources / 1755 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 500 / Washington, DC 20036. / Phone: (202) 939-4750 / E-mail:info@clir.org / Website:www.clir.org.
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) offers fellowships for doctoral students who have completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation and plan to do disertation research primarily in original source material in the holdings of archives, libraries, historical societies, museums, or related repositories, or a combination. Stipends is of up to $20,000 to support dissertation research for periods of 8 to 12 months. Complete applications must be postmarked by mid-November. For more information click here.

•(ANDREW W.) MELLON POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM / Wesleyan University / 95 Pearl Street / Middletown, CT 06459 /Website:http://www.wesleyan.edu/chum/mellon.html
Scholars who have received their Ph.D. degree after June 2002 in any field of inquiry in the humanities or humanistic social sciences -broadly conceived- are invited to apply for a postdoctoral fellowship, made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Wesleyan University. At least one Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and possibly two Fellows will be appointed to the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities for the whole academic year, 2005-2006, and each fellow will be awarded a stipend of $45,000. He or she will teach a one-semester undergraduate course; participate in the collegial life of the Center for the Humanities, which sponsors conferences, lectures, and colloquia; and give one public lecture. Themes for 2005-2006 will be "Culture and Policy" (fall) and "Hope and Fear"(spring). Scholars whose interests bear upon either of these two themes are encouraged to apply for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship.

• THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART / 1000 Fifth Avenue / New York, New York 10028-0198 /(212) 535-7710 / Website: www.metmuseum.org
(1) Internship Program. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers internships for students interested in museum careers. Applicants must have a strong art history background and at least one year of graduate study completed. The deadline is traditionally at the end of January.

(2) Fellowship Program. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers annual resident fellowships in art history to qualified graduate students at the pre-doctoral level as well as to postdoctoral researchers.

• MICHIGAN SOCIETY OF FELLOWS / 915 East Washington Street / 3030 Rackham Building / University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070 / (734) 763-1259 / Website: http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Faculty/society.html
The Society offers postdoctoral fellowships at The University of Michigan in the areas of arts and humanities, in the social, physical and life sciences, and in the professions. There is an annual stipend of $47,271. Candidates should be near the beginning of their professional careers. Those selected for fellowships must have received the Ph.D. degree or comparable artistic or professional degree between June 1, 2003 and September 1, 2006. Fellows are appointed as Assistant Professors in appropriate departments at the University of Michigan and as Postdoctoral Scholars in the Michigan Society of Fellows. They are expected to be in residence during the academic years of the fellowship, to teach for the equivalent of one academic year, to participate in the informal intellectual life of the Society, and to devote time to their independent research. Deadline is September 30.

•MILLAY COLONY FOR THE ARTS, INC. / 454 East Hill Rd., POB 3, Austerlitz, NY 12017 (518)392-3103 / Website: www.millaycolony.org
The Millay Colony gives short-term residence space to writers, composers, and visual artists. Residencies are for one month and usually cover a period from the first to the 28th of each month. The Colony provides room, board and studio space to selected artists at no cost. There is no application fee. For more information and applications visit their website above.

• THE MORRIS K. UDALL FOUNDATION / 110 S. Church Avenue, Suite 3350 / Tuscon, AZ 85701 / 520-670-5529 / Website: http://www.udall.gov/p_fell_guide.htm
The Foundation awards two annual Ph.D. dissertation fellowships of $24,000 to students whose work is in the areas of environmental public policy or environmental conflict resolution. Recipients must be in the final, writing year of their Ph.D. work and must submit a copy of their dissertation to the Udall Foundation at the end of the award year. Applicants must be United States citizens or permanent residents. Receipt deadline for complete application packet is first week of February.

• MOUNT VERNON HOTEL MUSEUM & GARDEN (formerly ABIGAIL ADAMS SMITH MUSEUM AND GARDENS) William Randolph Hearst Foundation Fellowship Program / 421 East 61st / New York, NY 10021 / phone: (212) 838-6878 / fax: (212) 838-7390 / Website: www.mvhm.org
The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum offers two summer fellowships for undergraduate or graduate students interested in U.S. history, material culture, historic preservation, museum studies, or museum education. Fellows engage in scholarly research and participate in the inner-workings of a historic house museum, particularly the Museum’s education department. The appointment is full-time for a nine-week period during June and July, and carries a $2,750 stipend per fellow. Deadline is first week in April. For more information and applications click here.

•MURRAY RESEARCH CENTER VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM / Radcliffe College / 10 Garden Street / Cambridge, MA 02138 / (617) 495-8140 / Fax: (617) 496-3993 / Website: www.radcliffe.edu/murray
Grant funds available for postdoctoral level research, and for doctoral dissertations drawing on the Murray Center's data resources.
(1)The Jeanne Humphrey Block Dissertation Award Program offers a grant of up to $5,000 to a woman doctoral student. Proposals must draw on the center's data resources, and should focus on sex and gender differences or some developmental issue of particular concern to girls or women. The application deadline is April 1.
(2) The Henry A. Murray Dissertation Award Program offers grants of up to $5,000 to doctoral students. Projects must draw on the center's data resources, and should focus on some aspect of "the study of lives," concentrating on issues in human development or personality for research. Deadline is April 1.
(3) Adolescent and Youth Dissertation Award offers grants up to $5,000 to doctoral students. Proposals must draw on the center's data resources, and should focus on youth or adolescent development. The application deadline is April 1.
(4) Radcliffe Postdoctoral Research Support Program Adolescent and Youth Research Award offers grants of up to $10,000 to Postdoctoral investigators for research drawing on the center's data resources. Funding is available for research using Murray Center data sets focusing on some aspect of youth and/or adolescence. The application deadlines are October 15 and March 15.
(5) Studying Diverse Lives Research Award offers grants of up to $10,000 to postdoctoral researchers drawing on data within the center's Diversity Archive. The application deadlines are October 15 and February 1.

•MUSIC ASSISTANCE FUND / 3319 Greenfield Rd, #705 / Dearborn, MI 48120-1212 / Phone: 313-336-9809 / Fax: 313-336-9033 / Website: www.sphinxmusic.org / E-mail: infor@sphinxmusic.org
A number of scholarships are available, especially for minority musicians. For a list of scholarships, awards and competitions visit the website above.