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Jobs and Funding
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Financial Aid and Scholarships
Research Grants
Career Advising
Internships/Summer Jobs
Job Searching -- UW Connections
Job Searching -- Directories of Job Listing Databases
Job Searching -- Job Listing Databases

Financial Aid and Scholarships

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Scholarships, Fellowships, Grants and Loans for Students, Faculty and Staff
  
  
• Funding for Undergraduate Research on Campus
  UW-Madison Center for Biology Education compilation.
  
  
• COS Funding Opportunities
  From Community of Science. A searchable database including scholarships and fellowships across many disciplines.
  
  
• FinAid! The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid
  "The most comprehensive free resource for objective and unbiased information about student financial aid."

Research Grants

• Grants Information Center
  Memorial Library's Grants Information Center is one of approximately 200 Cooperating Collections throughout the U.S. established by the Foundation Center (New York, NY) to make funding information available to the public.
  
  
• COS Funding Opportunities
  From Community of Science. A searchable database for NIH, NSF, and USDA grants including research grants across many disciplines.
  
  
• GrantsWeb (Society of Research Administrators)
  Research funding opportunities from the government, foundations, and state and local agencies.
  
  
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Grants and Fellowships
  
  
• National Science Foundation
  Use Find Funding Opportunities pulldown menus.

Career Advising

• UW-Madison College Library Career Collection
  
  
• UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences Career Services
  "Provides career development and job search strategy assistance to CALS undergraduate and graduate students and alumni."
  
  
• UW-Madison Letters & Science/School of Human Ecology Career Services
  
  
• CBE Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Biology at UW-Madison From Center for Biology Education.
  
  
• UW-Madison Department of Bacteriology Career Reference Guide
  Provided by the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Internships/Summer Jobs

• NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
  "For students interested in identifying research opportunities and for faculty interested in obtaining support for undergraduate research students."
  
  
• PMABS: Summer Internships
  Partnerships for Minority Advancement in the Biomolecular Sciences.
  
  
• Studentjobs.gov
  Federal govt. jobs for internships, summer employment, volunteer opportunities.
  
  
• UW Student Job Center.

Job Searching -- UW Connections

• UW-Madison Opportunities:
  
  • UW Student Job Center
  • Faculty and Academic Staff Vacancies
  • Employment Opportunities at UW-Madison (Office of Human Resources)
    
    
• UWBC Job Board (UW Biotechnology Center)
  
  
• eRecruiting Look in right column under Related Links to find out about eRecruiting and jobs targeted for UW-Madison. Must be on a UW-Madison computer or use WiscWorld to get in without a password. Major site used by CALS Career Advising.
  
  
• Go Global: International Careers
  UW-Madison site listing databases that advertise international jobs in the sciences.
  
• MonsterTrak
  Jobs targeted to UW-Madison. Must be on a UW-Madison computer or use WiscWorld to get in without a password.

• UW-Madison College Library Career Collection
  
  
• Animal Science Job Hunting on the Internet (Steenbock Library, UW-Madison)
  
  
• Job Hunting on the Internet
  A UW-Madison Steenbock Library workshop handout summarizing why and how to job hunt on the Internet.
  
  
• Department of Bacteriology Career Reference Guide
  Provided by the Department of Bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
  
• Finding a Water-Related Job (UW Water Resources Institute)
  
  

Job Searching -- Directories of Job Listing Databases

• The Riley Guide: Job Listings
  One of the best starting points on the Internet for job-hunting. Has job listing directories by location and by audience or industry. General Resources/Job Banks highlights New Grad/Entry-Level databases. See Natural Sciences for Biology related databases of job listings.
  
  
• Career Information in Engineering and the Sciences (University at Buffalo Science & Engineering Library)
  The Biological Sciences section has listings for biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular biology and genetics; botany and plant sciences; ecology and environment; general biology and biological/life sciences; and zoology.
  
• Employment Links for the Biomedical Scientist
  Focuses on positions for Ph.Ds.
  

Job Searching -- Job Listing Databases

• Bio.com Career Center
  Biotechnology and pharmaceutical Jobs.
  
  
• BiologyJobs.com
  Life Sciences job listings in categories: Agriculture, Anatomy / Physiology, Bioinformatics / Biotechnology, Botany, Cell Biology, Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Science, Genetics, Marine Science, Medicine, Natural Resources, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Veterinary Medicine, and Zoology.
  
  
• BioSpaceJobs.com
  Life sciences job listings.
  
  
• Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network
  Job listings in academia.
  
  
• Nature.jobs (Nature magazine)
  
  
• Post-Docs.com
  
  
• Science Careers (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
  
  
• sciencejobs.com (New Scientist, Cell, BioMedNet, ChemWebNet.com publishers) Bioscience and Chemistry jobs.
  
  
• SciWeb Biotechnology Career Center
  Post-doctoral and technician job listings.
  
  
• Hum-Molgen's Positions in Bioscience and Medicine
  This German (English-language) site provides good coverage of European positions.
  
  
• USAJobs
  "Federal Government's official one-stop source for Federal jobs and employment information." Includes many biology related jobs.
  
  

Last modified June 15, 2005
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with Steenbock Library, the UW Biotechnology Center, and the Center for Biology Education. Please send comments regarding this site to Barbara Lazewski.