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 […]
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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 […]
How to Juggle Funding Applications and Multiple Other Responsibilities: The Fall Application Season
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 […]
Developing Your Research Training Plan
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 […]
Funding in Engineering – Advice from a Fellowship Advisor
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 […]
Describing Your Contribution To Your Field To Non-experts
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Got Places to Go? Funding Your Conference Travel
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.