The Nutrition Department offers traineeships and research or teaching assistantships.  Opportunities for employment on faculty research grants are available for doctoral students.

• Department training grants.  The Department has a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training.  Grants provide tuition and fees, a stipend, and health insurance. These NIH traineeships, open only to US citizens or permanent residents, are awarded on a competitive basis and require sponsorship by a faculty member.
• Faculty research grants.  Department faculty members have a large number of intervention and policy, population-based, and biochemistry grants from the NIH and other funding agencies.
• IDOT (MCOB) Predoctoral Training Grant In Maternal and Child Obesity.  Interdisciplinary training for doctoral students interested in pursuing research careers related to maternal and /or child obesity.  The grant provides partical tuition and fees, a stipend, and health insurance. For additional information, please contact Debbie Bush (dbush@unc.edu) or 919-966-2685.
• MCH Training Grant.  For those interested in maternal and child health, some funding opportunities may be available through the MCH Training Grant.  The grant provides tuition and fees, a stipend, and health insurance. For additional information, please contact Dr. Janice Dodds.  

The Graduate School

Merit assistantships and other scholarships are offered to entering doctoral students on a competitive basis.  The department’s doctoral committee will apply for these on behalf of the student.

The University

Application for financial assistance may also be made to the University Student Aid Office.  The Resource Library at the Research Services Office offers a free computerized search service to UNC graduate students.  The database includes private and public sources of research funding that can be searched by the student's area of research interest or by discipline of investigator.  The library is located at 306 Bynum Hall, 966-5625.  Some agencies provide training support only, some dissertation support only and some both training and dissertation support.  Students should be aware that the deadline for applying for many of these grants might precede the funding date by as long as a year.

Examples of Other Funding

• The Agency for Health Care Quality (AHRQ) supports dissertation research in the area of health service delivery. Applications may be obtained from Chief, Review and Advisory Services (Dissertations), NCHSR, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Room 18A-20, Rockville, MD 20857, (301) 443-3091.  
• Carolina Population Center: Students working in the area of reproductive health or nutrition and population may be eligible for traineeships from this center.  Faculty sponsorship is necessary (see Drs. Barry Popkin, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Peggy Bentley, and Anna Maria Siega-Riz, and Linda Adair). Applications may be obtained from Jan Hendrickson, CPC Training Program Coordinator, Carolina Population Center, University Square, CB#8120, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8120.  
• National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) supports individual dissertation research (www.nigms.nih.gov).
• Ford Foundation Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities supports research in the behavioral and social sciences.  Applications may be obtained after September 1st from the Fellowship Office, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, Washington, DC 20418, (202) 334-2872.
• CDL Traineeship supports one nutrition student to obtain an Interdisciplinary Fellowship with the Center for Development and Learning in Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND).  Contact Dr. Kristine Kelsey at kristine.kelsey@cdl.unc.edu

Additional Awards

• SPH Award Opportunities
  Naomi R. Koehler Endowment for Professional Development in Nutrition and Women’s Health
• External Opportunities
  American Dietetic Association Foundation
  Gerber Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship
  Child Care Research Scholars grant from the Child Care Bureau, DHHS
• BSPH Opportunities
  Undergraduate Research Fellowship – UNC Honor’s Program
• MPH Nutrition Opportunities
  MaryAnn C. Farthing Scholarship - $1,000 (may vary)
• BSPH, MPH, MS, or PHD Nutrition Opportunities
  Nutrition Alumni Book Award - $250