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Guest Blog Post Series: Hooks in the Host Country: Making proper Use of the Affiliation Letter

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Fulbright award winner, Emmanuel Aprilakis, describes his research in Classics, and how he made use of GradFund services to improve his application. He also provides advice to other students on the main steps to take to make grant and fellowship applications more competitive.

Filed Under: About GradFund, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Fulbright, Funder and Award Spotlight, Humanities, Predissertation, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: archival research, Fulbright, humanities funding, international research

Guest Blog Post Series: Reinventing Oneself and How I Used Funding Applications as Opportunities to Develop My Graduate Training

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Rutgers’ Ph.D. Candidate in History, Eri Kitada, shares her research and speaks on the skills that applying for external fellowships during graduate school can give you and the benefits of grant writing beyond academia.

Filed Under: Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Humanities, International Students, Proposal Writing Advice, Revise Tagged With: advice, history, international students

Guest Blog Post Series: Enabling Multi-Country Fieldwork with Funding

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

PhD candidate in Sociology at Rutgers University, Niina Vuolajarvi who works on the connections between migration, sex work, and precarity, describes her research and experience with external funding and provides students with advice on how to apply for fellowships and awards.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Fulbright, Humanities, International Students, Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: advice, fellowship application, fieldwork, international research, international students, success stories

Guest Blog Post Series: Success Comes with a Second Set of Eyes

Posted on October 26, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

In this post, Rutgers History Department’s Ph.D. student Bren Sutter explains how receiving feedback from a trusted friend or colleague on your application materials help your narrative to be clearer and more convincing.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Humanities, Proposal Writing Advice, Revise, Success Stories Tagged With: fellowship application, Seeking and Receiving Feedback

Guest Blog Post Series: Grant Applications, Archival Research and Developing a Strong Dissertation Project

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

In this post, a graduate student in the Department of History at Rutgers, Catherine Babikian, describes how applying for grants and fellowships allowed her to carry the necessary archival research to complete her dissertation.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Humanities, Predissertation, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Revise, Success Stories Tagged With: archival research, humanities funding

Title: Guest Blog Post Series: Grant Writing as Dissertation Writing – Advice from an Archival Researcher

Posted on October 12, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Theater researcher, Nicole Sheriko, describes how applying for external funding has enabled her to advance her research and provides advice for other graduate students applying for grants and fellowships.

Filed Under: Advice, Archive, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research/Writing, Dissertation WritingCompletion, Humanities, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: ACLS/Mellon, applying for multiple awards, humanities funding

Guest Blog Post Series: Applying for the GRFP from the NSF

Posted on October 8, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

In this post Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology, Kathryn Coniglio, describes her experience applying for the NSF GRFP and talks about the importance of signposting in your application to guide reviewers through your statements.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Dissertation Research, Early Graduate, Funder and Award Spotlight, Predissertation, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: advice for early graduate students, NSF-GRFP, social sciences

Guest Blog Post Series: Do Your Best and Ignore the Rest: My Advice for Navigating Fellowship Applications

Posted on October 5, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Are you in the earlier stages of your Ph.D. program and planning to apply for external funding? In this post Graduate Student, Amanda Williams provides students with advice on how to manage several applications during your pre-dissertation years.

Filed Under: Advice, Announcements, Biological Sciences, Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Planning When to Apply, Predissertation, Predoctoral/Postdoctoral, Proposal Writing Advice, Success Stories Tagged With: advice for early graduate students, NSF-GRFP, STEM, writing advice

Guest Blog Post Series: My Funding Journey… from Ph.D. to Postdoc

Posted on October 1, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Anna Giarratana, a physician-scientist in training in the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Princeton University MD/Ph.D. program narrates her experience applying for external funding

Filed Under: Announcements, Biological Sciences, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Fulbright, Postdoctoral, Success Stories Tagged With: biological sciences, Fulbright, postdoctoral fellowships, STEM

Guest Blog Post Series: Rutgers’ One Stop for Preparing Competitive Fellowship Application

Posted on September 28, 2020 by Fellowship Advisor

Are you a Ph.D. student in a scientific field applying for funding? In this post, Vrushank Bhatt writes about his research on lung cancer and his journey in applying for funding.

Filed Under: Announcements, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Dissertation Research, Proposal Writing Advice, Success Stories Tagged With: science fellowships, STEM

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