NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS
PURPOSE
To ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States, and to reinforce its diversity.
AWARD
Three years of funding -- up to $121,500 -- for research-focused Master’s and PhD degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Graduate Research Fellowship stipend $30,000 per 12-month period; education allowance $10,500 per tenure year. One-time $1,000 international research travel allowance. All awards are for a maximum of three years, usable over a five-year period.
SUBJECTS
Study and research in the sciences or in engineering leading to master's or doctoral degrees in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and social sciences, and in the history and philosophy of science. Awards are also made for work toward a research-based PhD in science education that requires a science competence comparable to that for PhD candidates in scientific disciplines. Clinical or practice-oriented professional degrees are ineligible.
TENABLE at
US accredited universities; also foreign institutions
NUMBER OFFERED
Approximately 1,000 graduate fellowships awarded annually. These Fellowships are extremely competitive; typically one applicant in ten is awarded a Fellowship.
ELIGIBILITY
Open to U.S. citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens. Fellowships are intended for individuals in the early stages of their graduate study. Awards are not made in clinical, counselling, business, or management fields, social work, education (except in science education Ph.D.), or history (except history of science), for work leading to medical, dental, law, or public health degrees, or for study in joint science-professional degree programs. Applicants may apply during their senior undergraduate year or during their first year of graduate study: they must have completyed no more than 12 months of full-time graduate study.
DEADLINES
The 2008 GRFP application will open in August, 2007.
Due date of application on the NSF Fastlane Graduate Research Fellowship Program Application Module, depending on field of application:
Interdisciplinary fields: Nov. 1, 2007
Mathematical Sciences; Computer & Information Sciences: Nov. 2, 2007
Social Sciences; Psychology; Geosciences: Nov. 6, 2007
Life Sciences: Nov. 7, 2007
Engineering: Nov. 8, 2007
Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy: Nov. 9, 2007
Official academic transcripts are due by the deadline for the applicant's field of study. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test, and also the GRE Subject Test in the field most closely related to their chosen area of graduate study, are recommended: scores submitted by ETS from tests taken between October 1, 2002, and November 30, 2007 [to be submitted directly by ETS, not the applicants), are acceptable. Three reference letters are due by December 1, 2007. Awardees will be announced in late March 2008, with funding beginning in fall 2008.
CONTACT
Arlinda Wickland, Director, Student Fellowships and Scholarships, Adirondack House 203, 443-2455
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Graduate Research Fellowship Operations Center, 866-673-4737 (toll-free from the US and Canada); email: help@nsfgradfellows.org
URL
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201
(last edited 7/21/09)