Annual Awards Programs 2026

The Amelia Earhart Fellowship was established in 1938 in honor of famed pilot and Zontian, Amelia Earhart. The $10,000 Fellowship is awarded annually to up to 30 women pursuing Ph.D./doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering and space sciences. It may be used at any university or college offering accredited post-graduate courses and degrees in these fields. Since the program’s inception in 1938, Zonta has awarded 1,704 Amelia Earhart Fellowships, totaling more than US$11.3 million, to 1,275 women from 76 countries.

Our Fellows have gone on to become astronauts, aerospace engineers, astronomers, professors, geologists, business owners, heads of companies, even Secretary of the US Air Force.

If you are a woman working toward a PhD. related in any way to Aerospace or Space Science, please apply for a $10,000 Amelia Earhart Fellowship directly here. Deadline is November 15, 2025.

Pictured below with Zonta Governor Maria Crowley and others are 6 AE Fellows who attend university in District 11 who attended the conference in October, 2025. Each showed a video about her work and was "pinned" with her AE wings.