National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Description
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. Fellows share in the prestige and opportunities that become available when they are selected. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution), opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education they choose.

Eligibility Requirements

• be a US citizen, US national, or permanent resident
• intend to pursue a research-based Master’s or Ph.D. program in a GRFP-supported field
• be enrolled in an eligible program at an accredited United States graduate institution, with a US campus, by fall 2017
• be at an early stage in your graduate career
• have completed no more than twelve months of full-time graduate study (or the equivalent) as of August 1, 2016
• Effective as of the 2017 competition (Fall 2016 dealdines), graduate students are limited to only one application to the GRFP, submitted either in the first year or in the second year of graduate school. An exception is provided for first-year graduate students who applied in Fall 2015 to the 2016 GRFP competition; these individuals may apply as second year graduate students in Fall 2016 to the 2017 GRFP competition, if they are otherwise eligible.

Application Deadline
Deadlines are determined by discipline. Check here for those dates.

Application Info & Link
https://www.nsfgrfp.org/applicants/application_components

Past Recipients
http://www.stampsscholars.org/2016/04/27/national-science-foundation-graduate-research-fellowship/