Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Scholarship For:

Research in Abroad.

Scholarship Field:

Social or natural science, humanity

Scholarship Sponsor:

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation was established by Harry Guggenheim with an aim that thoughtful, scholarly and scientific research, experimentation, and analysis of violence, aggression, and dominance will someday bring out more than usual solution and result in peace and prosperity to all human being devoid of caste, creed, race, religion, nationality, gender, color and origin. Grants have been made to study aspects of violence related to youth, family relationships, socialization of children, media effects, crime, biological factors, etc. The foundation provides aid for research projects in neuroscience, genetics, animal behavior, criminology etc. also. The foundation aims to bring constructive radical change in the world with the help of better investigation of problem, more acute predictions, constructive condemnation and applying new, effective ideas.

Eligibility for the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation:

  • Candidate can be of any caste, creed community, origin, nation, and gender.
  • Candidate should be armed with graduate degree. High school students are not eligible for this grant. Applicants are evaluated in comparison with each other .
  • Candidate should be bestowed with the capability and ability to understand and make attempts to ameliorate urgent problems of violence, dominance, and aggression.
  • Candidate should have passion, dedication and devotion to  take part in the indispensable activities that are complimentary for humanity and universal brotherhood

Value of Scholarship - Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

  • The main aspire of Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is to gives its candidates a chance to study urgent problems of violence and aggression in the modern world.
  • Scholars also gets the benefit of carrying out  research projects in neuroscience, genetics, animal behavior, the social sciences, history, criminology, and the humanities which illuminate modern human problems.
  • Grants have been made to study aspects of violence related to youth, family relationships, media effects, crime, biological factors, intergroup conflict related to religion, ethnicity, and nationalism, and political violence deployed in war and sub-state terrorism, as well as processes of peace and the control of violence.
  • Foundation also motivates its students to interpret the cause and consequences of violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence.
  • An aid of $15,000 to$30,000 is provided to a candidate who wish to pursue his/her post doctoral program.
  • Institute also awards an amount of $15,000 to ten or more dissertation fellowships each year to individuals who will complete the writing of the dissertation within the award year.

How to Apply - Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation:

Candidate should include curricula vitae and lists of applicable publications for the principal investigator and all specialized personnel.

  • Candidate should outline the specific aims of the project and discuss the background and importance of the proposed work.

The deadline for receipt of applications by the foundation is August 1.The result is declared in the month of June. Specialization course begins in the month of September.

Contact Address:

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation,
25 West 53rd Street,
New York, 10019-5401
Phone: (646) 428-0971
Fax: (646) 428-0981
Scholarship Website:www.hfg.org

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