The African Graduate Student Research Fund committee was formed in 2013 as an ad hoc committee and was promoted to a standing committee in 2016. The name was changed to African Research Fellowship in 2021. Its mission is to support the next generation of African mammalogists by awarding individual grants of $1,500 and an online ASM membership to African nationals pursuing graduate degrees. Between 2014 and 2018, 2-3 awards were granted annually; in 2019, 4 proposals were funded, and in 2020 this number increased to 5. The increase in the number of recent awards reflects several generous donations—please consider contributing!
Application Process
Applications consist of
(1) a 3-page proposal prepared and submitted by the applicant and
(2) an e-mail from the applicant’s major graduate advisor; instructions for both are detailed below. Please ensure that your proposal is formatted as a .pdf and has the file name FAMILY NAME_FIRST NAME_ARF (e.g.,Grinnell_Joseph_ARF). Failure to comply with these requests may result in our inability to review your proposal. Proposals should be e-mailed to Dr. Link E. Olson ( ), Chair of the African Research Fellowship Committee, by 15 April 2022; applications received after that date will not be reviewed. In the subject header, please put FAMILY NAME_ FIRST NAME_ARF.