Grad15: Five prestigious fellowships for graduate students
In this week's Grad15, Joshua Brooks, manager of the Graduate College's Distinguished Graduate Fellowships Office, shared information on five of the most prestigious fellowships available to ASU graduate students.
What is a distinguished award?
A distinguished award acts as an academic credential — an indicator of future success and mark of exceptional scholarship — that will follow a scholar throughout their academic career.
While these awards come with substantial funding, this funding is secondary to the prestige that the fellowship brings. Recipients of well-known distinguished research fellowships have a better chance at securing tenure-track positions earlier in their careers than their peers.
Competition for these fellowships is fierce, and the application submission process can be onerous. For those graduate scholars who pursue and receive these awards, though, the lifelong career benefits are tremendous. To guide potential awardees through the process, the Graduate College has specifically created its Office of Distinguished Fellowships.
Consider these five distinguished fellowships
Download the presentation for award programs, eligibility, application timelines, and processes for the research awards listed below through the GradConnect Canvas resource site. (If this is your first time visiting GradConnect, you’ll be prompted to enroll to access the Canvas site.)
National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program
American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowships
Fulbright U.S. Student Program
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowships
Ford Foundation Fellowships
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For more information about these or other distinguished awards, visit our website or contact Josh directly at joshua.d.brooks@asu.edu.
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