Foundation for Science and Disability

The Student Award Program of FSD helps to increase opportunities in science, engineering, mathematics, technology, and pre‑medical/dental areas for graduate or professional students with disabilities.  FSD has established a Science Graduate Student Grant Fund, which is available to fourth year undergraduates (who are disabled and have been accepted to a graduate or professional school in the sciences) and graduate science students who have a disability.  Awards of $1000 each are made to qualified college or university students in any field of Mathematics, Science, Medicine, Technology, or Engineering.

In 2013, Naomi Delventhal, a student in the Department of Biology at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA, was awarded a $1000 grant for work on a project involving the phylogenetic relationships among Callogobius species in the Gobiidae family of fishes.