Grants, scholarships, and awards

The goal of this one-year, one-time only undergraduate student scholarship is to promote lifelong learning by securing charitable contributions, gifts and endowed funds to award scholarship, fellowships and grants.

Recognize psychologists and friends of psychology who have made significant contributions to the mission of the Committee on Aging.

This award recognizes an APA member who has had a scientific, professional, educational, mentoring, leadership, or political impact on the lives of and promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in society.

Recognizes individuals contributing to psychological science as employees of government bodies.

Grants will be awarded for travel either from the U.S./Canada to a psychology teaching conference in a country outside of the U.S./Canada, or from a country outside of the U.S./Canada to the U.S./Canada.

The STP Award for Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to recognize instructors who promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and who prioritize these values in their teaching and mentoring.

This award recognizes outstanding psychology teachers committed to academic and professional excellence, a passion for teaching, and positively impacting student learning.

This award program assists science-oriented doctoral students of psychology with dissertation research costs.

These awards recognize MFP alumni who have made exceptional contributions to racial and ethnic psychology in the areas of research, public service, teaching and training, or innovations in treatment.

The goals of this grant are to support early career psychologists’ professional development and ability to make meaningful personal and interprofessional connections by reducing barriers of attending the APA convention.

An award for the most outstanding dissertation in psychology that addresses concerns relevant to populations of color.

The APA Committee on Rural Health (CRH) Excellence in Rural Psychology Award elevates the importance of psychologists in rural and remote regions and recognizes those who demonstrate exemplary leadership.

Recognize outstanding delivery of psychological services to women.

This award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions in science, policy and practice that benefit the psychological functioning or well-being of children, youth and families.

These awards recognize the outstanding achievements of psychologists who have made significant contributions to the understanding of socioeconomic status and the lives and well-being of the socioeconomically disadvantaged.

This award recognizes psychologists for evidence-based applications of psychology to education.

This award recognizes specific contributions in education and training in psychology.

This award shall be given to an individual who is well-published in refereed journals, and who actively facilitates organizational consulting psychologist practitioners’ publishing, thereby contributing their learnings from professional practice to the evidence base in psychology.

This is an annual award for an APA member who demonstrates ethics education, across all fields of psychology (i.e., clinical, organizational, school, and applied science), and will focus on lifetime accomplishments in ethics education.

Provides funds for members to defray the cost of conducting a research project.

This grant is in support of masters’ theses and pre-dissertation research on sexism, racism or prejudice.

This program supports scientific research in social problem areas related to the basic interests and goals of SPSSI.

Students are invited to write an essay of no more than 750 words that addresses the topic of careers in psychology with an associate or bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Grant program is intended to bring together individuals to engage in planned activities to promote the teaching of psychology or work together to think about the ways in which the teaching of psychology can be improved.

Grant supports research projects in any phase of development that may be presented and/or published in peer-reviewed outlet.