When writing proposals, it’s important to inform the reviewers what impact your project will have on your field of study. For competitions where reviewers are within your field, it may be easier to explain to them how your innovative ideas differ from the current literature. However, funding competitions often use reviewers who are not experts […]
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The Scholarship Breakdown
Graduate scholarships are awards that support academic expenses, such as tuition or fees, books, and research costs. They are usually smaller sums of money and are of particular importance for students completing professional and research-based master’s degrees, where little external funding may be available. They are usually provided by companies or professional societies to support […]
The Quest to Find Funding: Navigating Pivot
Hello, Doctoral Funding Mentoring Program Participants and GradFund Conversation Readers! Today, I will be introducing you to a helpful online tool, the Pivot Database. Rutgers subscribes to the service to allow students, faculty, and staff to find external funding opportunities. What is so neat about Pivot? Pivot is a robust database that provides information on […]
Where to Find Information on Grants and Fellowships as a Graduate Student
Grants and Fellowships represent the majority of funding opportunities for graduate students. Grants supply funding for thesis or dissertation research-related expenses, such as lab supplies, analytic services, or domestic or international travel to archives and field sites. They generally do not provide funding for a student’s tuition or living expenses. Fellowships provide a stipend for a […]
Summer Fun(ding): Getting ahead of the Fall Application Season
As we’ve written here on GradFund Conversations in the past, the summer can be an excellent time to plan, draft, and revise grant and fellowship applications for the upcoming fall deadlines. It might seem early, but the truth is that many competitive grant and fellowship applications have deadlines in the early fall, specifically in September and […]
How to Navigate the Funding Landscape as a Graduate Student
Applying for extramural funding is an integral part of any graduate career. Research grants and fellowships will provide you with crucial financial support as you pursue your course of study as well as bring distinction to your scholarly endeavors. Grants will typically support research related expenses while a fellowship will provide you with a stipend […]
Advice for Faculty Mentoring Working with their Graduate Student on Extramural Grant and Fellowship Applications
As a faculty mentor, you play a crucial role in the development of your student as a scholar and in writing a successful fellowship or grant application. Our graduate students have a much greater chance of success with their applications when their faculty mentors work with them throughout the process. Faculty involvement is essential in […]
Is a Fulbright in Your Future?
Fulbright evokes an immediate response from most people. Well known as a prestigious award to support oversees work, a Fulbright denotes merit, mutual exchange and scholarly excellence. It is for these reasons and more that all graduate students should investigate the Fulbright opportunities available to them. Fortunately, there are many Fulbright grants to support graduate […]
Take a Minute to Review Formatting Guidelines
In the summer calm before the major funding deadline season this fall, graduate students everywhere are making decisions on what applications they should write and beginning to outline and draft essays. One seemingly minor component of these essays is the formatting of the document that must be submitted. However, the format of the document is […]
Relating Your Funder’s Purpose to Your Award Application
So you started working on your award application, but you are unsure of how your research project advances the goals of the funding agency. What do you do? In a grant or fellowship application, you will want to make a compelling connection between your research and the goals of the granting institution. However, to learn this […]