In addition to the continuous funding options on the Graduate Financial Support page, the Graduate Student Affairs Office often receives announcements for other University or outside fellowship opportunities. Please refer back to this website often, as new fellowships will be listed regularly.
Other Resources
The Graduate Resource Center (located in Room C114 of the UCI Student Center) holds funding workshop series that include information on how to apply for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and to other training grants. The GRC also offers writing tutors to assist with proofreading of papers and grants throughout the year.
The Office of Research Development offers a grant review/editing service to faculty, graduate students, and their support staff who would like "another pair of eyes." Generally, turn around is less than two or three days. Contact is Randy Black, Research Development Manager, at rbblack@uci.edu.
Current Listings (scroll down for details)
National Fellowship Incentive Program
Winter 2013: March 15, 2013
Spring 2013: June 1, 2013
Within UCI
May 20, 2013 - Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
Outside of UCI
None at this time
Posted 5/17/2013
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
Award Amount:
• $3,036 million is available for 86 awards ranging from $15,000 to $60,000. Estimated average size of fellowship is $35,305.
• The institutional project period is 18 months beginning October 1, 2013; students may request funding for a period of no less than 6 months and no more than 12 months.
Purpose:
• Provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies.
• Designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States
Eligibility Criteria:
• Is a citizen or national of the United States or is a permanent resident of the United States;
• Is a graduate student in good standing at an institution of higher education in the United States who, when the fellowship begins, is admitted to candidacy in a doctoral program in modern foreign languages and area studies at that institution;
• Is planning a teaching career in the United States upon graduation; and
• Possesses adequate skills in the language(s) necessary to carry out the dissertation project.
• Projects must focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).
• Projects focused on Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom or Vatican City are not eligible.
Application Requirements and Submission:
FY 2013 applications are required to be submitted electronically using the Department of Education's G5 system.
• G5 Web site: http://www.g5.gov
• AND a hard copy of all submission materials must be submitted by May 20, 2013, to:
UCI Graduate Division
c/o Sharon Metzger
Senior Fellowship Analyst
120 Aldrich Hall
Irvine, CA 92697-3180
Complete Entry Procedures available at: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/applicant.html
Questions? Contact Sharon Metzger in the Graduate Division at smetzger@uci.edu or 949-824-8120.
Also, visit http://www.grad.uci.edu/funding/fellowships-awards/international/fulbright-hays.php for more information.
Posted 02/27/2013
National Fellowship Incentive Program
Please note that students may apply for this award once per academic year.
This award is open to all Engineering graduate students with a GPA of 3.60 or higher who submits a national fellowship application between July 1, 2012 and June 1, 2013. For a partial list of external fellowships, please visit: http://www.eng.uci.edu/grad/support/external. The National Fellowship Incentive Program Application is accepted on a quarterly basis until funds allocated for the program are exhausted.
Please submit the following items to the application form: 1) A copy of the fellowship application materials (i.e., proposals, statements, etc.); 2) A copy of the letter of recommendation from your faculty advisor that was included with the fellowship application; 3) Confirmation of submission (i.e., an email from the fellowship organization confirming receipt of your application).
Send completed applications to Amy Fujitani, Assistant Director of Graduate Student Affairs, at amy.fujitani@uci.edu, or at 305 Rockwell Engineering Center.
