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The Silicon Valley Archives Travel Fellowship Program is a pilot program supported by the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University Libraries. The program is designed to encourage awareness of the rich collections gathered by Stanford University Libraries over the past forty years in the history of Silicon Valley and to facilitate their use by researchers. The fellowship provides funding support for travel and research expenses related to accessing these archival collections. This pilot program will accept applications twice a year and will initially run for academic years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027. Early career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply, though the program is open to all researchers interested in Silicon Valley history and the archival materials housed at Stanford.

AIP's grants-in-aid program supports research in the history of the physical sciences and aims to help develop the community that conducts that research. The program is targeted especially at graduate students, but it also supports undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and well-established scholars and non-professional historians seeking supplemental research funds. Typical uses of the funds include travel to visit archives and to conduct oral histories. Research can be conducted anywhere in the world, including visits to AIP's Niels Bohr Library & Archives facility. The maximum value of a grant is $3,000 (USD), paid on a reimbursement basis. Expenses can include long-distance and local travel, lodging, and meals; expenses related to research, including research assistance; and other reasonable costs directly associated with the research. For oral histories involving individuals who have spent significant time working in industrial settings, grants of up to $6,000 are available through the Marc H. Brodsky Fund for Oral History of Physicists in Industry.