Funding and Scholarship Opportunities

            In preparation for early November application deadlines, the Graduate School is sponsoring a session on Writing NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Proposals. Based on their experience on GRF review panels, Professors Joanne Silverstein (Civil Engineering), Brad Olwin (MCDB), and Mike Grant (EBIO) will give advice on preparing proposals and answer questions.

            The session is scheduled for Friday, September 30 at 2:30-4:00PM in UMC 245.

           For faculty, please announce this to your students and classes; for eligible students, please plan to attend.

Deadlines

           The Council on Research and Creative Work (CRCW), a faculty committee of the Graduate School, wishes to share the following deadlines for AY 05-06. Along with submitting your own proposals, please consider nominating one of your colleagues for the 2006-2007 Distinguished Research Lecturer, remembering that these nominations take some time to prepare.  All submissions are due in Regent 306F by 4 pm on the deadline date:  


Fall 2005-  
Grants-in-Aid: September 16, December 1
Conference Awards: September 15
Faculty Fellowships: October 13
Junior Faculty Development Awards: None
Distinguished Research Lecturer: None
Seed Grant: October 3


Spring 2006-
Grants-in-Aid: March 3, April 3
Conference Awards: March 7
Faculty Fellowships: None
Junior Faculty Development Awards: January 16
Distinguished Research Lecturer: February 3>
Seed Grant: March 1
 

 2005 CRCW Policies and Procedures can be found at:

http://www.colorado.edu/GraduateSchool/crcw-forms/crcwpp.pdf

Claremont National Scholarship for Doctoral Study

Claremont Graduate University is seeking Ph.D. students who have already achieved at the summa cum laude level and who have already shown, at the bachelor's or master's level, precocious and productive signs of "academic trespassing" (migrating across disciplines as theoretical or applied questions demand). The Claremont National Scholars receive full tuition plus a $20,000 annual stipend. Scholars may pursue the Ph.D. in any of CGU's eight graduate schools. A special application is available for the Claremont National Scholarship at their website: http://www.cgu.edu/nationalscholars. The deadline for this scholarship is December 16, 2005.

For more information see the posting on the bulletin board in the ICS hallway.

Smithsonian Institution Predoctoral, Postdoctoral, and Senior Fellowships

Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution provide students and scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research projects in association with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff.

• PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Allows students to conduct research for periods of three to twelve months. Applicants must have completed coursework and prelim. exams for doctoral degree.


• POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
Last three to twelve months and are available for scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for fewer than seven years.


• SENIOR FELLOWSHIPS
Available to scholars who have held the doctoral degree or equivalent for mor than seven years as of the application deadline.


• FUNDING
Stipends for Postdoctoral and Senor Fellowships are $35,000 per year. Earh and Planetary Sciences Senor and Postdoctoral Fellowship stipends are $40,000 per year. Stipends for Predoctoral Fellowships are $20,000 per year.

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