The Buzas Award for Travel to the Cushman Collection supports graduate students and professional researchers with travel for Smithsonian collection visits to verify taxonomy in foraminiferal research.
Joseph A. Cushman Award for Student Travel supports students and recent Ph.D. graduates traveling to present microfossil research or attend foraminifera-focused training to share results and develop knowledge.
Joseph A. Cushman Award for Student Research supports master's and doctoral students studying living or fossil foraminifera to advance understanding of their systematics, ecology, and past environments.
Botany Travel Awards: Cuatrecasas / Smith/ Robinson-Funk Fellowship Program supports researchers’ resident study of National Herbarium collections to advance botanical research, especially on tropical plants.
Retiree Research and Travel Grants support retired Cushman Foundation members with research and meeting travel to pursue studies of living or fossil foraminifera and other protists.
William V. Sliter Research Award supports graduate students studying Mesozoic and Cenozoic foraminifera, funding research into their taxonomy, ecology, evolution, and links to environmental change.