Transcript Fellowships2

Graduate Fellowship
Opportunities
Steven Conolly, Ph.D.
[email protected]
August 13, 2002
REU Schedule Update
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Fellowship talks first
 Poster presentations 10:30 to 11 AM today 2nd
Floor Packard at top of stairwell:
– Nemil Dalal, Steven Pu, Alan Amaya, Jianbo Wang, Shijun Liu,
Jinendra Jain, Ravi Sarin, Irisa Liu, Theo Marentis, Chris Lee
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August 20: Blaine Chronik, PhD
 August 27: REU posters (about 3 pm)
 End of Program August 30th
 $1,150 final payment
Poster Information
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Size: 3 feet high by 4 feet wide
Corkboard easels will be provided the morning of
August 27
Legible: 66 point for titles, authors; 36 point
readable text font, 24 point captions
Sections: Background, goals, methods, results,
discussion, conclusion
Invite your research advisor, group
Quality will keep the program funded
Considering Graduate
School?
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Fall quarter senior year you may be applying
to lots of graduate programs
 Decide between MSEE and PhD
 Stanford undergrads often are supported by
graduate school they attend, e.g., SGF
Goals for the Talk
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Consider applying for graduate fellowships
– E.g., NSF, Hertz, private foundations
Provide some links to fellowship programs
 Seniors need to do this in the next month
 Stanford Undergrad Research Program can
help
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– Susie Brubaker-Cole and Marcia Keating
Fellowships
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Fellowships are scholarships for grad school
– Emeritus = retired
– Curriculum Vitae = Resume
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Cover tuition plus about $18,000 stipend
– stipend = salary
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Three or four-year fellowships
 For doctoral studies and MS
Fellowships: Why Important?
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Prestigious, competitive
 Save your research group or family money
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At Stanford, Berkeley, Illinois, MIT can be
hard to get a Research Assistantship
 Fellowship students have greater freedom to
pick their research area and research group
 Less dependent on group’s grant support
Deadlines
Fellowship
Deadline*
URL
AT&T
Jan
http://www.research.att.com/academic/alfp.html
Bell Labs GRPW
Jan
http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/GRPW/
Hertz
Nov
http://www.hertzfndn.org/index.html
NSF
Nov
http://www.orau.org/nsf/nsffel.htm
NDSEG
Jan
http://www.asee.org/ndseg/
Whitaker BME
Dec
http://www.whitaker.org/grants/fellanc.html
Incoming seniors need to start process in 1 month
http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/fellowships/fellowships_deadlines.shtml
Other Useful Fellowship Links
– Stanford Undergrad Research Program (SURP)
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/fellowships.pdf
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http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/fgsr.html
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/DoR/Fellows/about/nsf.html
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/urp/SURP/welcome.html
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– UC Berkeley has a useful list of fellowships
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http://www.grad.berkeley.edu/fellowships/text/fellowships_deadlines_text.shtml
– Cornell has 325 graduate fellowships listed at
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http://www.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=PHYSICALSCIENCES
Requirements: same as
graduate applications
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GRE Scores for some
 Three or more personal recommendations
– ask Professor, advisor from your research group
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Statement of purpose, pick ideal schools
College transcripts
US citizenship or permanent residency for some
Some allow deferral, graduate applications
Publications from REU program can help
Treat your references well
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Give them statement of purpose, transcripts,
and all application forms in big envelope
– SOP completed in September!
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Cover letter with deadlines
 Pre-stamped envelopes
 They reuse recommendations
 Remind them a week before each deadline
Review
Consider applying for graduate fellowships
 Seniors need to do this in the next month
 Stanford SURP can help
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Susie Brubaker-Cole and
Marcia Keating
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SURP: fourth floor of Sweet Hall
After SURP talks:
 Posters and food up on Second floor foyer
near the front stairwell
 View posters till 11 AM. Food is up there
 Get style ideas for the 27th poster fest
REU Contact Information
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REU Program Coordinator
– Susan Farrell, Packard 172
[email protected] 6-2070
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Research Advisor
– Steven Conolly, PhD. Packard 206
[email protected]
Other Considerations
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Some allow you to defer fellowship
 Some permit graduate students to apply
– e.g., NSF by early 2nd year graduate school
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Some permit working engineers to apply
– e.g., Whitaker
Some Fellowships in
Engineering
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AT&T Fellowship Program
Bell Labs Graduate Research Program for Women
Hertz Foundation
National Science Foundation
US Department of Defense (NDSEG)
Whitaker Graduate Fellowships in Biomedical
Engineering
Many more
Hertz Foundation Graduate
Fellowships
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Open to U.S. citizens only
Very competitive. Oral interviews
$25,000/year stipend (more now)
www.hertzfndn.org/index.html
Early November deadline
NSF Graduate Fellowships
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www.orau.org/nsf/nsffel.htm
Citizen or permanent resident
$21,500 stipend plus $10,500 tuition
Early November deadline
900 awarded out of 6550 applicants
EE, Computer & IE 60
BME 83
Whitaker Biomedical
Engineering
Biomedical engineering
 $19,500 for 12 months
 Early November
 US Citizen or permanent resident
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http://www.whitaker.org/grants/fellanc.html
DOD-National Defense and
Science Engineering Fellowships
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Website: www.asee.org/ndseg/
U.S citizen (no permanent resident)
January 15, 2003*
170 fellowships were awarded in 2002
$24,000 stipend for 3 years