Academic Awards & Fellowships (AAF)

AAUW has a long and distinguished history of advancing educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the globe. Fellowship and grant recipients perform research in a wide range of disciplines and work to improve their schools and communities. Their intellect, dedication, imagination, and effort promise to forge new paths in scholarship, improve the quality of life for all, and tackle the educational and social barriers facing women in the United States and around the globe. Awards are offered in several categories, including for graduate study or research publication, women pursuing graduate study who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, women pursuing a degrees that could allow them to advance in or pursue change in their careers, and women pursuing graduate study in fields in which women are underrepresented.