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Einaudi Center for International Studies

Cornell University

Funding Opportunities for Students

The Einaudi Center sent more than 50 undergraduates around the world on summer internships and fieldwork, funded international research travel for 75 graduate students, and launched 10 Cornellians into Fulbright experiences in 2025.

We offer funding opportunities for undergraduates and graduates with deadlines throughout the academic year. Our support can help you engage with global cultures, advance your career goals, travel for international research projects, or host a campus event with your student organization. 

Featured Opportunities

Global Scholars

Global Scholar Mira DeGregory stands and talks with a student in front of her painting at the student showcase.

Lead the campus conversation on international aid

Travel Grants

Alonso Alegre-Bravo studied electricity access in Guatemala

Fund your international research travel

Global Internships

Radicalization Research in Spain

Advance your career with hands-on learning

Laidlaw Scholars Program: Research in Kenya

Laidlaw alum Eli Newell '24 reflects on his collaboration with researchers and educators to explore how human waste streams can benefit agricultural systems by creating fertilizers and feeds.

"Participating in the Laidlaw Scholars Program has been a great privilege of my time at Cornell. The two-year duration of the scholarship has allowed me to be intensely involved with my professor’s research program at Cornell and with her partner in Kenya, introducing me to the best colleagues and most rewarding experiences." —Eli Newell '24

All Funding Opportunities for Students

Funding Opportunities are sorted chronologically from oldest to newest by application deadline and timeframe.
Application Deadline
A Global Scholar talks with their hands to another student, standing alongside a final art project.

Undergraduate Global Scholars

Deadline:
Timeframe: Fall
Contribute to the conversation about the future of international aid as a Global Scholar with the Einaudi Center!
Trisha Bhujle holds a salamander in her hands.

Undergraduate Migrations Scholars

Deadline:
Timeframe: Fall
Join the undergraduate Migrations scholars to think in new ways about global migration challenges and understand our world on the move.
Laidlaw scholar hands a clump of a soil to an Ecuadorian man.

Laidlaw Leadership and Research Program

Deadline:
Timeframe: Fall
The Laidlaw Undergraduate Leadership and Research Program promotes ethical leadership and international research around the world—starting with the passionate leaders and learners fou
Natural View

EAP Area Studies Fellowships

Deadline:
Timeframe: Fall
EAP offers area studies fellowships to Cornell graduate students whose work has an East Asia focus.
A photo of Shibuya, Japan

East Asian Language Study Grant

Deadline:
Timeframe: Fall
The language study grant is open to Cornell graduate and undergraduate students. The EAP East Asian Language Study Grant can be used either at Cornell or another institution.
Bogota, Colombia Cityscape

Lourdes Benería Award

Deadline:
Timeframe: Spring
The Lourdes Benería Award for summer field research supports students studying gender and planning in Latin America or the Caribbean.
Ethan Duvall conducting study in Ecuador USFQ Hub

International Research Travel Grants

Deadline:
Do you need to travel internationally for your graduate research or field work? If you’re traveling between the United States and a host country for your dissertation or thesis research—or for other academic experiences in the international arena—Einaudi can help you get there. 
Flip flops in a row

Milton L. Barnett Scholarship for Malaysian Studies

Deadline:
Timeframe: Spring
Studying Malaysia? Apply for funding now.
Art shop in Freetown Christiania, Copenhagen, Denmark

Frederic Conger Wood Research Fellowship

Deadline:
Undergraduates from all colleges are invited to apply for this fellowship supporting research in Europe.
hands clasping team

Graduate Fellowships

Deadline:
Timeframe: Spring
These fellowships from the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies support graduate students during a semester of international fieldwork.