Graduate Students play a critical role in CIERA’s research, education, and outreach. At CIERA, graduate students from a variety of programs – including Physics, Astronomy, Engineering Sciences and Applied Math, and more – leverage our observing and computational resources, along with the collaborative and interdisciplinary research environment, to carry out cutting research. They grow their professional skills not only through research, but through interacting with visitors, mentoring high school students, and participating in training opportunities (e.g. mentoring training, science communication, and more).
CIERA graduate students often receive graduate fellowships to support their work
Chateaubriand Fellowship: The Chateaubriand Fellowship Program for doctoral students in science aims to initiate or strengthen collaborations or joint projects between French and American research teams
CIERA Graduate Fellowships: Supporting graduate student research and training at the interface of astrophysics with other disciplines and enhancing CIERA’s K-12 STEM education and outreach by giving our fellows opportunities to use their scientific training to support educators and students in the Chicagoland area.
DOD SMART Program: Provides STEM students with the tools needed to pursue higher education and begin a rewarding career with the DoD. With a full scholarship, students pursuing STEM degrees will be able to focus on complex research to further the DoD’s mission and create a lasting impact.
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship: The Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) provides outstanding benefits and opportunities to students pursuing doctoral degrees in fields that use high-performance computing to solve complex science and engineering problems.
DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research: The unique opportunity to participate in the SCGSR program supports the goal to develop a new generation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experts who are critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission.
Ford Foundation Fellowships: Designed to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
Frontera Computational Science Fellowships: The Frontera fellowship program provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students to compute on the most powerful academic supercomputer in the world and collaborate with experts at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST): FINESST provides NASA research grants for graduate students (Future Investigators), with a faculty mentor as Principal Investigator. These projects are graduate student-designed and performed research projects. Five SMD divisions at NASA Headquarters, i.e., Astrophysics, Biological and Physical Sciences, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Science, conducted/provided oversight for the review and selection process.
ISG Graduate Fellowships: The Illinois Space Grant Consortium (ILSGC) will award fellowships to outstanding students pursuing a graduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines that support NASA’s mission.
NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities: NASA’s Space Technology Mission directorate seeks to sponsor graduate students who show significant potential to contribute to NASA’s goal of creating innovative new space technologies for our Nation’s science, exploration and economic future.
Northwestern Presidential Fellowship: Presidential Fellows are students who promise to combine outstanding intellectual or creative ability with the capacity to play an important leadership role not only in the Society of Fellows, but also in their respective disciplines and beyond.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program: GRFP recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists and engineers, early in their careers.
Quad Fellowship: The Quad Fellowship sponsors exceptional master’s and doctoral students to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the United States.
Soros Fellowship: The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans provides merit-based funding for New Americans, immigrants and children of immigrants, who are poised to make significant contributions to US culture, society and academia.
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The Office of Fellowships provides guidance and information on applying for external fellowships. They also maintain a Fellowship Finder to search for opportunities.
TGS hosts a database of internal (NU) graduate fellowship
