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Grants and Fellowships for Students in the Allied Health Fields

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Melissa Olekson

Graduate students in the Allied Health fields represent a wide range of professions that are trained to provide health services. There are a number of national fellowship programs and independent organizations that provide funding for Allied Health graduate students. Programs such as the Fulbright IIE and the AAUW fellowship programs are open to students in […]

Filed Under: Biological Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Funder and Award Spotlight, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Understanding Award Types Tagged With: allied health, NIH

Your Advisor as a Grant Proposal Writing Collaborator

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Samantha Lee

While every advisor-student relationship is unique and different, your advisor will become a close collaborator throughout your graduate career and become a facilitator of your success. Developing a working relationship with your advisor will help you define your goals and career trajectory.  The advisor is one of the best resources available, providing the student with the information and resources needed to empower […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: working with an advisor

Funding in Engineering – Advice from a Fellowship Advisor

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Melissa Olekson

There is funding available at each stage of graduate study for students of engineering. The funding opportunities vary, as with any other field, based on personal information, field of study, and research site, amongst other criteria. Graduate Student Fellowships: Early Graduate There are several fellowships available to engineers as incoming graduate students and in the […]

Filed Under: Cross Stage Support, Dissertation Research, Dissertation Research/Writing, Early Graduate, Physical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, Planning When to Apply, Postdoctoral, Understanding Award Types Tagged With: engineering, Fulbright, NSF

Got Places to Go? Funding Your Conference Travel

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Samantha Lee

In the blog post, “Planning for Travel Funding,” we discussed finding grant and fellowship opportunities to fund dissertation research that requires you to travel to a research site.  Today, we will discuss obtaining funding to attend conferences.

Filed Under: Understanding Award Types Tagged With: conference travel

Developing Your Research Training Plan

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Melissa Olekson

There are several graduate awards that fall into the category of “training fellowship”, with the most popular being the set of the National Institutes of Health’s F31 fellowships. These awards differ from traditional research fellowships in that they are offered to not only support research, but also to promote faculty mentorship that will enhance the student’s […]

Filed Under: Funder and Award Spotlight, Proposal Writing Advice, Understanding Award Types Tagged With: NIH

Best Practice for Working with Recommendation Letter Writers

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Rodrigo Borges

Letters of recommendations are a central piece of your application materials. Since they are usually confidential, you will not be able to know (or control) what recommenders say about you and your work. That being said, there are a few things you can do to maximize your chances of submitting outstanding letters of recommendations along with […]

Filed Under: Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: recommendation letters

How to Juggle Funding Applications and Multiple Other Responsibilities: The Fall Application Season

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Melissa Olekson

Graduate students, new and advanced, have the task of juggling many responsibilities each semester: coursework, research progress, and professional activities, with a little bit of social time mixed in. Now, while we are in the middle of summer, say your advisor comes to you and asks that you apply for a fellowship with a deadline […]

Filed Under: Planning When to Apply, Proposal Writing Advice

The “Thesis” Variable and the Fulbright-IIE Research-Study Grant

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Brian Humphreys, Ph.D.

Series Note: GradFund recently conducted an extensive analysis of more than 100 past Fulbright applications in order to better understand what characteristics predict success. Using a number of different statistical techniques, we were able to identify three variables that consistently contributed to success: affiliation depth, literature citations, and the strength and coherence of the applicant’s […]

Filed Under: Fulbright, Funder and Award Spotlight, Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: Fulbright, international research, proposal structure

Literature Citations, Literature Reviews, and the Fulbright IIE Research-Study Grant

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Brian Humphreys, Ph.D.

Series Note: GradFund recently conducted an extensive analysis of more than 100 past Fulbright applications in order to better understand what characteristics predict success. Using a number of different statistical techniques, we were able to identify three variables that consistently contributed to success: affiliation depth, literature citations, and the strength and coherence of the applicant’s […]

Filed Under: Fulbright, Funder and Award Spotlight, Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: Fulbright, international research, literature review

“Affiliation Depth” and the Fulbright-IIE Research-Study Grant

Posted on July 9, 2015 by Brian Humphreys, Ph.D.

Series Note: GradFund recently conducted an extensive analysis of more than 100 past Fulbright applications in order to better understand what characteristics predict success. Using a number of different statistical techniques, we were able to identify three variables that consistently contributed to success: affiliation depth, literature citations, and the strength and coherence of the applicant’s thesis in […]

Filed Under: Fulbright, Funder and Award Spotlight, Proposal Writing Advice Tagged With: Fulbright, international research

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