Graduate Funding and Awards
In addition to your assistantship and/or fellowship, you will find below Information on additonal funding and enhancement opportunities. For example: research and tuition support, submission deadlines, and also awards and recognition of our graduate students and faculty.
DEADLINES for Various Awards, Nominations, and Reports
EXTERNAL AWARDS DATABASE - The Graduate School is often made aware of individual funding opportunities for graduate students. When the Office of Fellowships and Awards Administration receives information on funding prospects, it compiles the information into a database of external awards. This database, however, is limited to the information that is received by the office; therefore, it should not be considered inclusive. Your advisor, department faculty and staff are knowledgeable sources of additional information and should be consulted directly.
College and University Awards
Honorary and Recognition Awards
Alumni Association Dissertation Award - provides funding and recognition to outstanding full-time doctoral students and is considered to be among the most prestigious available to Penn State graduate students that recognizes outstanding achievement in scholarship and professional accomplishment.
(OCTOBER 15 Application Deadline)
Award for Research Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences - Recognizes high quality contributions to the humanities and the social sciences working toward their advanced degrees.
(NOVEMBER 15 Application Deadline)
Graduate Faculty Teaching Award - meant to recognize faculty
members for their outstanding teaching performance and for their
advising of doctoral students.
(OCTOBER 15 Application Deadline)
Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award - meant to recognize
faculty members for exemplarily leadership benefiting graduate
students and faculty.
(OCTOBER 15 Application Deadline)
Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award - to recognize and reward graduate assistants for outstanding teaching performance.
(OCTOBER 15 Application Deadline)
Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award - is presented to a full-time
faculty member who demonstrates "effective mentoring through guiding and nurturing the collegial and professional development of junior faculty."
(OCTOBER 15 Application Deadline)
Liberal Arts Outstanding Teaching Award for Graduate Students - to recognize graduate students in the College of the Liberal Arts whose accomplishments in the classroom are deemed to be exceptional and who have thus made a significant contribution to the educations of our undergraduate students.
(OCTOBER 15 Application Deadline)
W. LaMarr Kopp International Achievement Award - is granted in recognition of contributions to the advancement of the international mission of the University in four categories: Faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students.
(DECEMBER 1 Application Deadline - submitted directly to University Office of International Programs, 410 Boucke)
Enhancement and Internal Funding Opportunities
Below you will find a listing of College and University level enhancement and funding opportunities for graduate student dissertation, research and tuition support.
College level:
Dissertation Support - For support of research-related expenditures associated with a dissertation or for release time.
(November 1 and March 15 - Application Deadline)
Humanities Initiative - To expand support for dissertation writers providing releases from teaching or related service to humanities students who are supported on assistantships.
(March 1 Deadline)
IAH Summer Residency Program - Provides advanced students the opportunity to devote a summer session to work on their thesis, dissertation or final creative project.
(February 16 Application Deadline)
Incentive Award Program Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship Application Incentive Award - Provides awards to students pending successfull submission of an application to an external doctoral research fellowship program. National Science Foundation - Fellowship Application Incentive Award - Provides awards to students pending successful submission of an application to the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program. |
Summer Tuition Assistance Program - Provides tuition assistance to graduate students for a summer session.
(June 1 Application Deadline)
Travel Support - This program enables graduate students to present results from their research at the leading professinal conference in their field and to present creative work in professional venues. Students who wish to apply for a travel grant should contact their department.
University level:
Academic Computing Fellowship - The program is for doctoral students who have a background and strong interest in computing applications and who will help develop and disseminate new methods for problem solving within their disciplines.
(March 1 Application Deadline)
Graduate School Teaching Certificate - Recognition of students commitment to college teaching that will provide an avenue to enhance their teaching skills.
External Research Support - this link will direct you to potential funding sources; numerous Internet-based informational services and databases; software; funding priorities and recent awards made by private sector sponsors.
Offfice of Student Aid - Provides information about available aid programs, applying for student financial aid, and costs.
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