• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Log in

  • About
    • The GradFund Team
    • Success Stories
  • Advice
    • Blog
    • Planning When to Apply
    • Proposal Writing Advice
  • Fellowships and Grants
    • Search for Fellowships and Grants
    • SGS Managed Awards
    • SGS Competitive Awards
  • Resources
    • GradFund Self-Paced Guide to Grants and Fellowships
    • Research Development Support
    • Funding Directories
  • Questions
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Contact Us
  • Meet With Us

Welcome to the GradFund Blog

Welcome to the GradFund Blog

Follow the GradFund Blog for current advice and insights on best practices in applying for research support, written by the GradFund Fellowship Advising Team.

Get the Most out of the GradFund Funding Database (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Carolyn Ureña

Series note:  The following post is part of the GradFund Throwback Thursday blog series.  From time to time, we will repost one of our most popular blog posts from years past. If you are interested in learning more about research grants and fellowships to support your graduate study, be sure to visit the GradFund Funding Database. Hello Doctoral […]

Filed Under: Planning When to Apply, Understanding Award Types

A Bronx Approach to Research and Funding

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Tom Conte

Success in Grant Writing Series Editor’s Note: Welcome to the next installment of our Success in Grant Writing series, which will feature guest blog posts written by Rutgers graduate student winners of prestigious fellowships and grants. If you would like to share your experience with successful grant writing, please contact us through our website. “Scientist” doesn’t […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice, Success Stories Tagged With: Anthropology, cultural anthropology, Fulbright, Fulbright IIE, Mongolia, NSF, NSF-DDRIG, small grants

How to Navigate the Funding Landscape as a Graduate Student (Throwback Thursday)

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Carolyn Ureña

Series note:  The following post is part of the GradFund Throwback Thursday blog series.  From time to time, we will repost one of our most popular blog posts from years past. If you are interested in learning more about research grants and fellowships to support your graduate study, be sure to visit the GradFund Funding Database. Applying for […]

Filed Under: Planning When to Apply Tagged With: Doctoral Funding Mentoring Program, navigating the funding landscape

Applying for the Fulbright IIE: GradFund Conversations Roundup

Posted on June 13, 2016 by Carolyn Ureña

Are you considering applying for Fulbright IIE Fellowship this season? If so, please contact Assistant Dean Teresa Delcorso-Ellmann immediately to receive critical information about the application process. Please also review the following blog post from GradFund’s analysis of over 100 past Fulbright applications. As the series note reads, “Using a number of different statistical techniques, […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: Fulbright, Fulbright IIE

Using GradFund Over the Course of Your Graduate Study

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Mimi Winick

The project I proposed during GradFund’s Summer Mentoring Program in 2009 is not exactly the dissertation I’ll be defending this summer, but it— and the work I continued to do with GradFund over the next six years— shaped that dissertation and the course of my graduate career. Even as one of the few incoming grad […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: archival, Fulbright, small grants, summer mentoring program

Scholarly Excellence and Enduring Commitments to Enhancing Diversity: Rutgers-New Brunswick 2016 Ford Fellows

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Teresa M. Delcorso-Ellmann

As the 2016 application season concludes, we are immensely proud to announce that three Graduate School-New Brunswick doctoral candidates have been awarded the prestigious Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2016-2017: Rosemary Ndubuizu (Women’s and Gender Studies), Carolyn Ureña (Comparative Literature), and Dara Walker (History)! The Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship offers one year of fellowship support for […]

Filed Under: Success Stories Tagged With: Ford Foundation

Becoming Fulbright Competitive

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Ben Arenger

If you are a U.S. citizen and you plan to apply for funding to support overseas research, now is the time to consider whether a Fulbright fits with your plans. The Fulbright-IIE competition for the 2017-18 year has opened and the on-campus deadline for graduate students planning to apply to the study/grant award is September […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: Fulbright, Fulbright IIE

On Fieldwork & Funding – Part Two

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Diya Paul

Success in Grant Writing Series Editor’s Note: Welcome to the next installment of our Success in Grant Writing series, which will feature guest blog posts written by Rutgers graduate student winners of prestigious fellowships and grants. If you would like to share your experience with successful grant writing, please contact us through our website, gradfund.rutgers.edu This is Part Two […]

Filed Under: Humanities, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: American Institute of Indian Studies

On Fieldwork & Funding – Part One

Posted on May 16, 2016 by Diya Paul

Success in Grant Writing Series Editor’s Note: Welcome to the next installment of our Success in Grant Writing series, which will feature guest blog posts written by Rutgers graduate student winners of prestigious fellowships and grants. If you would like to share your experience with successful grant writing, please contact us through our website, gradfund.rutgers.edu This is Part […]

Filed Under: Humanities, Social Sciences, Success Stories Tagged With: American Institute of Indian Studies

Dissertation Completion vs. Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities: Being Future-Oriented

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Carolyn Ureña

If you’re in your final year of graduate study, you may be planning to apply for postdoctoral fellowships. This can be a particularly challenging application to manage, even if you’ve previously had success securing external funding. Here at GradFund Conversations, we’ve recently discussed how to pitch a second project, but in today’s post we will discuss the difference between applying […]

Filed Under: Humanities, Proposal Writing Advice, Understanding Award Types Tagged With: postdoctoral fellowships, projecting into the future

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 24
  • Go to page 25
  • Go to page 26
  • Go to page 27
  • Go to page 28
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 37
  • Go to Next Page »

Search Awards

Make an Appointment →

Get personalized help finding funding and writing applications

Founded in 2000, GradFund’s mission is to assist Rutgers graduate students in securing merit-based research grants and fellowships to support their graduate study and research. Read about our history and approach to working with graduate students. Learn more →

Copyright © 2025 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. All rights reserved. Log in