Fellowships 2024-2025

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 3/3/25 by 5:00 PM.
• Award: Ten people will receive a $1,000 stipend used towards conference travel.
• Eligibility: Intended for students seeking financial support in attending academic conferences
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 10/7/24-11/15/24
• Award: $9000 spring stipend, resident fees
• Eligibility:
  • Citizenship requirements: U.S. Citizen
  • Must be in a Ph.D. or master’s program—cannot be in a self-supporting program
  • Good academic standing
  • Child of regular U.S. Navy or Marine Corps member

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application here.
• Application period: 4/18/25 at 5:00 PM PST
• Award: Up to $3000
• Eligibility:
  • Students must promote interdisciplinary interactions and research in the field of Peace and Conflict. The proposed project must specify its relevance to this goal.
  • Students who regularly participate in the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies 2025 will receive priority.
  • If received, recipients of the grant must present at either the CGPACS lunch talks or CGPACS annual conference in 2025-2026.
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 9/23/24-10/31/24
• Award: $23,000 stipend over Winter and Spring (2 awards)
• Eligibility: 
  • Citizenship requirements: None
  • Must be a first-generation student
  • MFA or Ph.D. must be completed by the end of the Fall 2025 quarter.
  • Must have advanced to candidacy by 10/31/24 (Ph.D. applicants)
  • ≥3.7 UCI GPA
  • Financial need
  • Willingness to present dissertation at Chancellor’s Club dinner or other associated functions
  • Must demonstrate leadership and interpersonal abilities

• • Direct application or school nomination: Direct application here.
  • Application period: Deadline is 4/4/25 at 11:55 PM.
  • Award: At the start of the program, UCI Grad Division will give students a $200 stipend (Southern California CSU campuses) and $750 (Northern California CSU campuses). After the program is successfully completed, students receive an extra $1,000.
  • Eligibility:
    • Must be a UCI Ph.D. or MFA student between 1 to 3 years finishing your degree.
      • Students that are earning self-supporting professional doctorates are not eligible.
      • Program scientists and postdoctoral scholars are ineligible.
    • Program is open to both international students and domestic students
    • All programs and disciplines that are represented at CSU are eligible.
  • Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 3/3/25 by 5:00 PM PST.
• Award: Two awards for $1,000
• Eligibility: MFA and doctoral students whose ongoing research shows strong impact in Orange County
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 2/3/25-3/3/25
• Award: $500 stipend for Spring
• Eligibility: 
  • ≥3.7 UCI GPA
    • ≥ quarters of graduate research 
  • Full-time MFA or doctoral student
    • Must have advanced to candidacy by 3/3/25
  • Research must have a high community impact in the vicinity of Orange County

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application to Graduate Division
• Application period: 6/30/25 by 5:00 PM PST.
• Award: One quarter of Non-Resident Supplemental Tuition.
• Eligibility:
  • Must currently be or become a Doc 2A (anyone enrolled for greater than 9 quarters after their advancement to candidacy for their Ph.D.) in the 2025-2026 academic year and have completely exhausted funding.
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 11/18/24-12/13/24 (tentatively)
• Award: $18,000 stipend and tuition
• Eligibility: 
  • Citizenship requirements: U.S. Citizen
  • Field of study must be in the humanities, natural sciences, or social sciences
    • Selection committee strongly prefers to support scholarly endeavors
  • Candidate must be pursuing a graduate degree
  • Applicants must have outstanding graduate and undergraduate records

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application to the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI)
• Application period: Deadline is 4/8/25.
• Award: $5,000
• Eligibility:
  • Must be a graduate student with ≥ 3 quarters of successful graduate coursework conducted at UCI by the close of the Spring 2025 Quarter.
  • Must have served as a TA or an instructor.
  • Preference for students with experience collaborating with faculty members on teaching or course-related projects, pedagogical training through discipline-specific teaching programs and/or DTEI, and must be proficient in Canvas.
  • Applicants must receive approval from their advisor/chair.
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 3/3/25-4/18/25
• Award: Resident tuition and fees, $500 travel stipend, and $29,4000 stipend
• Eligibility:
  • Citizenship requirements: Must be U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident, AB540 Status
  • Applicants must qualify as a diversity student as defined by the University of California, as well as demonstrate hardship.
  • Demonstration of high promise and potential 
  • Interest in academic career in research and teaching
  • ≥3.0 cumulative GPA
  • Full-time enrollment

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 9/23/25-10/31/24
• Award: $10,000 stipend for Winter or Spring (3 awards)
• Eligibility: 
  • Citizenship requirements: Must be U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident, AB540 Status
  • Applicants must have advanced to candidacy
  • Financial need
  • Strongest consideration given to dissertations filed in Spring/Summer 2025.

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 4/1/24-10/8/24
• Award: See website for more information.
• Eligibility:
  • Citizenship requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen
  • Master’s and Ph.D. candidates who display both general knowledge of history, current events, and culture of the countries they are applying to as well as the ability to study or research independently
  • Candidates without recent experience abroad in the country to which they are applying are preferred

Direct application or school nomination: Direct application

Application period: Deadline is 1/15/24.

Award: See [https://www.ed.gov/grants-and-programs/grants-higher-education/ifle/fulbright-hays-doctoral-dissertation-research-abroad#Past-Awards-&-Funding website].

Eligibility:

Citizenship requirements: Must be a citizen, national, or permanent resident of the United States

Must have advanced to candidacy

Must plan a teaching career in the U.S. following graduation

Must possess adequate skills in given language to complete dissertation in other countries

• Direct application or school nomination: TBA
• Application period: 10/24–11/18
• Applications due on November 18, 2025
• Award: TBA
• Eligibility:
  • Citizenship requirements: U.S. Citizen
  • Financial need

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: Rolling deadline
• Award: Unpaid, but will gain access to career and networking resources
• Eligibility: See website.

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application to Graduate Division
• Application period: 6/30/25 by 5:00 PM PST.
• Award: One quarter of funding.
• Eligibility: Applicants must have their research significantly adversely affected by major research delays, health issues, or significant circumstances impeding academic progress
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 9/23/24-2025 Academic Year
• Award: $9,500 with matching (multiple awards for each quarter).
• Eligibility: First-generation students with urgent financial need
• Deadline: 2/12/25

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 3/3/25-4/18/25
• Award: $5,000 summer stipend
• Eligibility:
  • Citizen requirements: Must be U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident, AB540 Status, or an International Student
  • Full-time enrollment in Ph.D., MFA program, nearing completion of thesis

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 4/18/25.
• Award: $85,000
• Eligibility:
  • Applicants must seek to influence the future of technology, such as in the following areas:
    • Computer Architecture
    • Algorithms and Optimization
    • Health Research
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Machine Learning and ML Foundations
    • Machine Perception
    • Natural Language Processing
    • Privacy, Safety, and Security
    • Quantum Computing
    • Software Engineering and Programming Languages
    • Systems, Networking, and Cloud Computing
  • Students must remain enrolled full-time in the PhD program for the duration of the Fellowship or forfeit the award.
  • Google employees, and their spouses, children, and members of their household are not eligible.
  • Students that are already supported by a comparable industry award are not eligible. Government or non-profit organization funding is exempt.
  • Past awardees from the PhD Fellowship program are not eligible to apply again.
  • Students will have completed graduate coursework in their PhD by the academic award year when the Fellowship begins (fellowships are effective the in the following school year)
    • Students must be in at least their 3rd year of a PhD program by the fall semester or quarter of the year when the Fellowship begins. The nominating university will be asked to confirm the student’s PhD program start date.
  • Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 10/7/24-11/15/24
• Award: $9000 spring stipend, resident fees
• Eligibility: 
  • Must be blind/legally blind
  • Must be in a Ph.D. or master’s program—cannot be in a self-supporting program
  • Good academic standing
  • Financial need

• Direct application or school nomination: Candidates and their advisors must apply directly. 
• Application period: 10/21/25-12/2/24 (tentatively)
• Award: $53,000 per year, up to 3 years
• Eligibility:
  • Citizenship requirements: U.S. Citizen, U.S. permanent resident, DACA or undocumented childhood arrival
  • Advisors and students must jointly apply
  • Must demonstrate commitment to promoting scientific research that is equitable and inclusive

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 3/3/25 by 5:00 PM PST.
• Award: $3,000 award (one) and $500 honorable mentions (two), for the Spring or Summer quarter
• Eligibility: Doctoral students whose current research shows promise for human disease treatment, prevention, or understanding
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 10/7/24-11/15/24
• Award: $5000 Spring stipend
• Eligibility: 
  • Citizenship requirements: U.S. Citizen
  • Must be direct descendant of WWI U.S. Army or Navy veteran. 
    • See Grad Division site for more information.
  • Good academic standing
  • Financial need

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 10/7/24-11/15/24
• Award: $9,000 Spring stipend, resident fees
• Eligibility: 
  • Citizenship requirements: Citizen of Latin American country or have AB540 status
  • Colombian citizens or those who can prove they descend from Miguel Velez are given preference
  • Good academic standing
  • Financial need

• Direct application or school nomination: External application
• Application period: Rolling deadline
• Award: See website
• Eligibility: 
  • Citizenship requirements: U.S. Citizen, permanent resident, or national
  • Must be enrolled in Ph.D. or master’s program
  • Must be enrolled in accredited institution in the U.S. in STEM by at least the fall of the award selection
  • Must not have terminal degree
  • Must not be greater than a first [academic] year graduate student
  • Must not have previously applied to the GRFP.

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 9/20/24-11/1/24
• Award: $31,000 over 12 months
• Eligibility:
  • Ph.D. candidate
  • STEM candidates may apply questions pertinent to ethics, values, and religious understanding central to dissertation
  • Must have completed all pre-dissertation requirements
  • Must be in writing of dissertation—all fieldwork and other research are complete (between April 1st-August 31st the year of the award)
  • Not previously held similar national award in the final year of dissertation

• Direct application or school nomination: External application
• Application period: Rolling deadline
• Award: See website. 
• Eligibility:
  • NSF Graduate Research Program Fellow or working under a PI with an NSF grant
  • Fellows must be active during the period of internship
  • Completion of at least one year in graduate program
  • Satisfactory progress towards degree completion

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 10/7/24-11/15/24
• Award: $9,000 stipend for Spring Quarter, as well as resident fees
• Eligibility:
  • International Ph.D. students
    • Students in self-supporting programs ineligibile
  • Financial need, good academic standing

• Direct application or school nomination: Students nominated through School
• Application period: 3/3/25-4/18/25
• Award: Full resident tuition, fees, $500 travel stipend, and $29,400 stipend
• Eligibility:

• Citizenship requirements: Must be U.S. Citizen, Permanent Resident, AB540 Status
• Must be in last year of graduate study, have advanced to candidacy by  Fall 2025

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 9/18/24-10/23/24
• Award: $10,000 and $1,000 stipends
• Eligibility:
  • ≥3.7 UCI GPA
  • Must not be in a self-supporting program
  • Full time doctoral or MFA student
    • If doctoral student, must have advanced to candidacy by October 23, 2024
  • Must conduct research with “critical public impact”
  • Willingness to have research highlighted on Graduate Division, UCI websites, brochures, social networks.
  • Must be able to discuss research in lay terms with legislators, donors, media during Winter, Spring quarters
  • Finalists must give a brief Zoom presentation to selection committee without visual aids and give an interview

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: 2/3/25-3/3/25
• Award: $500 stipend for Spring
• Eligibility: 
  • For graduate applicants:
    • Excellent mentorship of UCI students
    • Satisfactory academic progress
  • For postdoctoral applicants:
    • Excellent mentorship of UCI students or other postdoctoral fellows

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 3/3/25 by 5:00 PM PST.
• Award: $500 (graduate student), $500 (faculty member–must be used as a fellowship towards a student decided upon by faculty member), $500 (postdoctoral scholar).
• Eligibility: Must be a graduate students, faculty member, or a postdoctoral scholar
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Apply directly to UCOP
• Application period: 9/3/24-11/1/24
• Award: Benefits, $5000 research/travel stipend, $66,737
• Eligibility:
  • Citizenship requirements: Must provide documentation indicating one can legally work in the United States; deferred action status under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals encouraged to apply
  • Applicants must receive a terminal degree.

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 3/3/25 by 5:00 PM PST.
• Award: $5,000 award for a Spring or Summar quarter stipend.
• Eligibility: Applicants should have outstanding academic achievement and conduct research in the area of maternal/child health.
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 5/23/25 by 5:00 PM PST
• Award: $2000 and a certificate of recognition
• Eligibility: Individuals must be nominated by a member institution. Nominated dissertations must be in the ProQuest database for eligibility.
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Students apply through Grad Division
• Application period: Deadline is 4/18/25 by 5:00 PM PST
• Award: $30,000 stipend and Nonresident Tuition Fellowship, if applicable/as needed for the duration of the Fellow’s program (assuming continued satisfactory academic progress) commencing with the year following the Singh award year.
• Eligibility:
  • Must be a graduate of Indian or Pakistani university from specified area:
  • Must be committed to returning to country of origin after degree completion
  • Must not have conducted graduate study at any other U.S. educational institution
  • Priority given to students who already have a master’s degree

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 2/26/25
• Award: $80,000 annual salary, $20,000 expense allowance. Minimum of two, maximum of four years.
• Eligibility: Early career researchers with exceptional promise of becoming academic science leaders. These Fellows should recruit, inspire, and mentor the next generation of scientists regardless of background.
• Additional information

• Direct application or school nomination: Direct application
• Application period: Deadline is 2/14/25
• Award: $75,000
• Eligibility: Awarded to women postdoctoral scientists in STEM fields
• Additional information