National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

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National Science Foundation Fellowship

https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp

Deadline: first week in November. Date depends on discipline

The National Science Foundation offers approximately 900 graduate fellowships each year, including additional awards for women in engineering and computer and information science. Fellowships provide three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees in science, mathematics and engineering supported by the NSF and are intended for students in the early stages of their graduate study. offering approximately 900 graduate fellowships each year, including awards for women in engineering study.

Eligibility and Qualifications

Fellowships are awarded for graduate study in fields supported by the NSF, including the mathematical, physical, biological, behavioral and social sciences; engineering; the history of science and the philosophy of science; and for research-based PhD degrees in science education. In most cases, an individual has three opportunities to apply: during the senior year of college, prior to or during the first year of graduate school, and at the beginning of the second year of graduate school.

See https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/grfp/html/GRFP_Applicant_User_Guide.pdf for application instructions. A list of supported fields of study is at the end of the document.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals, or permanent residents of the U.S.

Application Procedures and Selection Criteria

All applicants are required to use NSF's FastLane Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) process. Applications consist of:

Information Form
Application Form
Proposed Plan of Research Form
Previous Research Experience Form
Recommendations and transcripts

GRE general and subject tests are no longer required but still highly recommend. NSF will pay the subject test registration fee for those who so request. Be sure to check dates. Scores will be reported only for NSF, to applicants, and to applicants' undergraduate institutions. The general test is optional.

Competitive NSF applications will have a highly-focused plan of research and study specific to an institution with strength in the appropriate sub-fields. Applicants should work with mentors at Penn and -- ideally -- consult with those they may work with at their proposed graduate program.

There is no internal Penn process for the NSF, but potential applicants are encouraged to let CURF know when applying and seek help during the application process.

Timeframe

Application materials should be submitted via FastLane by 5:00 p.m. in the applicant's local time zone according to the following schedule (dependent on proposed field of study):

November 1, 2007: Interdisciplinary Fields of Study
November 2, 2007: Mathematical Sciences and Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering
November 6, 2007: Social Sciences, Psychology, and Geosciences
November 7, 2007: Life Sciences
November 8, 2007: Engineering
November 9, 2007: Chemistry, Physics & Astronomy

Contact

Cheryl Shipman
Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
The ARCH, 3601 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6224
shipman@pobox.upenn.edu
Phone: 215-746-6488
Fax: 215-573-4869
http://www.upenn.edu/curf

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Last updated on August 17, 2006