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Fields of Study

Chemistry

Artificial Intelligence
Chemical Catalysis
Chemical Measurement and Imaging
Chemical Structure, Dynamics, and Mechanism
Chemical Synthesis
Chemical Theory, Models and Computational Methods
Chemistry of Life Processes
Computationally Intensive Research
Environmental Chemical Systems
Macromolecular (including Polymer Chemistry), Supramolecular, and Nanochemistry
Quantum Information Science
Sustainable Chemistry
Other (specify)
Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering

Accessibility
Algorithms and Theoretical Foundations
Artificial Intelligence
Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Graphics, and Visualization
Bioinformatics and Bio-inspired Computing
Communication and Information Theory
Computationally Intensive Research
Computer Architecture
Computer Security and Privacy
Computer Systems
Computer Vision
Cyber-Physical Systems and Embedded Systems
Cybersecurity
Data Science, Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Databases
Electronic Design Automation and Design of Micro and Nano Computing Systems
Fairness, Explainability, Accountability and Transparency in Analytics
Formal Methods, Verification, and Programming Languages
Human Computer Interaction
Information Sciences
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Parallel, Distributed, and Cloud Computing
Quantum Information Science
Robotics
Scientific Computing
Social Computing
Software Engineering
Wired and Wireless Networking
Other (specify)
Engineering

Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Agricultural Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
Bioengineering
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Computationally Intensive Research
Computer Engineering (including Networking)
Cybersecurity
Data Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Energy and Power Engineering
Environmental and/or Ecological Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Machine Learning
Manufacturing Engineering
Materials Science & Engineering (including Polymers, Ceramics, Semiconductors)
Mechanical Engineering
Microwave Electromagnetics Engineering
Nuclear Engineering
Ocean Maritime Engineering
Optical Engineering
Quantum Engineering
Quantum Information Engineering
Quantum Information Science
Robotics, Control, Automation
Systems Engineering
Wireless Engineering
Other (specify)
Geosciences

Aeronomy
Artificial Intelligence
Arctic-Antarctic
Atmospheric Chemistry
Biogeochemistry
Biological Oceanography
Chemical Oceanography
Climate and Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics
Coastal Marine Science
Coastal Studies
Computationally Intensive Research
Earth System Science
Environmental Science
Geobiology
Geochemistry
Geochronology
Geodynamics
Geoinformatics
Geology
Geomorphology
Geophysics
Glaciology
Heliospheric Physics
Hydrology
Magnetospheric Physics
Marine Biology
Marine Ecology
Marine Geology and Geophysics
Ocean Technology (ROVs, AUVs, sensors)
Paleoclimate
Paleontology and Paleobiology
Petrology
Physical and Dynamic Meteorology
Physical Oceanography
Quantum Information Science
Remote Sensing
Sea Ice
Sedimentary Geology
Solar Physics
Tectonics
Volcanology
Other (specify)
Life Sciences

Artificial Intelligence
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Biophysics
Cell Biology
Computationally Intensive Research
Developmental Biology
Ecology
Environmental Biology
Evolutionary Biology
Genomics
Microbial Biology
Neurosciences
Organismal Biology
Physiology
Proteomics
Quantum Information Science
Structural Biology
Systematics and Biodiversity
Systems and Molecular Biology
Other (specify)
Materials Research

Artificial Intelligence
Biomaterials
Ceramics
Chemistry of Materials
Computationally Intensive Research
Electronic Materials
Materials Theory
Metallic Materials
Photonic Materials
Physics of Materials
Polymers
Quantum Information Science
Other (specify)
Mathematical Sciences

Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics
Analysis
Applied Mathematics
Artificial Intelligence
Biostatistics
Computational and Data-enabled Science
Computational Mathematics
Computational Statistics
Computationally Intensive Research
Geometric Analysis
Logic or Foundations of Mathematics
Mathematical Biology
Probability
Quantum Information Science
Statistics
Topology
Other (specify)
Physics & Astronomy

Artificial Intelligence
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Computationally Intensive Research
Condensed Matter Physics
Nuclear Physics
Particle Physics
Physics of Living Systems
Plasma Physics
Quantum Information Science
Solid State Physics
Theoretical Physics
Other (specify)
Psychology

Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Psychology
Comparative Psychology
Computational Psychology
Computationally Intensive Research
Developmental Psychology
Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Neuropsychology
Perception and Psychophysics
Physiological Psychology
Psycholinguistics
Quantitative Psychology
Quantum Information Science
Other (specify)

The Goldwater Scholarship Foundation does not provide scholarships to students whose career interests include:

  • Clinical work in medicine (translational research is supported)
  • Design work in engineering, and
  • Social/Behavioral work/research in psychology (neuroscience research is
    supported).