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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
Essay Prize for best essay on technology and international security

Prize for Best Essay in Technology and International Security Policy

Deadline:
Timeframe: Spring
The award recognizes the best essay that considers the impact of technology on prospects for peace or war and/or how conflict may shape technology.
Group Photo of Reppy 2024-25 fellows in class

Reppy Institute Graduate Fellows Program

Deadline:
Timeframe: Spring
Masters, doctoral, and law students can apply to join a select cohort of fellows with unique opportunities for professional networking and development in the field of peace and conflict studies.
Dylan Rodgers pushes a wheelbarrow alongside two workers in Nepal.

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

Deadline:
Timeframe: Spring
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program sends U.S. citizens to more than 160 countries to study, research, and teach English abroad.
SEAP Director Abby Cohn presenting at a conference

SEAP Conference Travel Grant

SEAP offers travel funding for graduate students to present at conferences.
A pile of paper maps.

SEAP Engaged Travel Grant

Receive up to $3,000 of funding for undergraduate international study or research.
Cornell Seal Paperweight

SEAP Flexible Research Travel Grant

SEAP offers travel funds for off-cycle graduate research