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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
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Timeframe: Fall
How does migration shape life in your community?
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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
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Timeframe: Fall
EAP offers area studies fellowships to Cornell graduate students whose work has an East Asia focus.
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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.
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Timeframe: Spring
The Lourdes Benería Award for summer field research supports students studying gender and planning in Latin America or the Caribbean.
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Timeframe: Spring
The Brettschneider Oxford Exchange funds academic exchanges for Cornell faculty and students with colleges of Oxford University (UK).
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Undergraduates from all colleges are invited to apply for this fellowship supporting research in Europe.
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Timeframe: Spring
These fellowships from the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies support graduate students during a semester of international fieldwork.
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Timeframe: Spring
This award is available to graduate students in any field of study whose research is focused on the study of Europe.
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Timeframe: Spring
The award provides a semester or year of funding to graduate students in modern European government, history, economics, and related social science fields.