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Workshops and Presentations

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Workshops and Presentations

We offer workshops and presentations to School of Graduate Studies programs and student groups throughout the year.  Our workshop topics include: GradFund services, grantsmanship skills, developing an individual funding plan, and profiling the popular fellowship and grant programs such as the Fulbright IIE and Fulbright Hays, Ford Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and NIH predoctoral fellowships.

 

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Are you curious to learn how to write a grant or fellowship application? The Art of Proposal Writing for Grants and Fellowships will teach you how to effectively communicate your research ideas in a grant or fellowship application.  In this writing intensive workshop, you will engage in writing exercises, small group work and feedback about your research project which are designed to help you craft an effective funding proposal.  The workshop is writing intensive and will require you to bring your laptop with you to use during the workshop.

The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Ben Arenger who received his doctorate in Spanish literature at Rutgers and is a Senior Fellowship Advisor

Workshop Schedule:  TBA

Space is limited and registration is required.

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Registration will open in September

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Workshop Date:  TBA, Fall 2017

Registration is Required.  

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Registration will open in September

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Diversity in higher education has taken center stage across college campuses, and this topic is especially important from a grant and fellowship writing perspective. Not only will winning prestigious fellowships afford a wider range of students to pursue advanced research and degrees, fellowships and grants themselves are explicitly asking applicants to write (sometimes at length) about how their diversity will be an asset to their future teaching and research. This is a highly sensitive topic, but one that needs to be addressed directly. Growing comfortable describing your commitment to diversity is essential as you learn to discuss your efforts to meet the needs of diverse student populations, academic disciplines, as well as the funding agencies that support them, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Ford Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), among many others.

This workshop will be facilitated by GradFund Fellowship Advisors who have extensive experience working with students across a variety of disciplines, and this workshop will be of interest to all students who will one day need to write about diversity in fellowship applications and beyond.

Workshop Date:  TBA, Fall 2017

Registration is Required.  

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Registration will open in September

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Workshop Date:  TBA, Fall 2017

Registration is Required.  

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Registration will open in September

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Interested in international travel for dissertation research or following the completion of your degree?  The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs.  GradFund will be hosting information sessions on this award to help you get started on your application.

We will be holding information sessions on March 28th and April 10.  Stay tuned for more information.

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We regularly offer workshops and presentations to Rutgers University-New Brunswick graduate programs and student groups. Throughout the year and GradFund Fellowship Advisors and Peer Mentors are available as guest speakers.

Our workshop and presentation topics include: GradFund services, grantsmanship skills, developing an individual funding plan, and profiling the popular fellowship and grant programs such as the Fulbright IIE and Fulbright Hays, Ford Predoctoral and Dissertation Fellowships, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and NIH predoctoral fellowships.

If your graduate program or student group would like to request a GradFund presentation, workshop or Fellowship Advisor or Peer Mentor to present to your group, please click the button below and fill in our request form.

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