Graduate Funding and Awards

In addition to your assistantship and/or fellowship, you will find below Information on additonal funding. For example: research and tuition support, submission deadlines, and also awards and recognition of our graduate students.

Application Submission and Award Deadlines

Award Notifications

Awards

Recognition Awards

Award for Research Excellence - Recognizes high quality contributions to the humanities and the social sciences
(February 15 Application Deadline)

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 26 Application Deadline)

Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award - Recognize and reward graduate assistants for outstanding teaching performance.
(November 1 Application Deadline)

Graduate School Teaching Certificate - Recognition of students commitment to college teaching that will provide an avenue to enhance their teaching skills.

Honorary Awards for Faculty

Graduate Faculty Teaching Award - meant to recognize faculty members for their outstanding teaching performance and for their advising of doctoral students.
(November 1 Application Deadline)

Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award - meant to recognize faculty members for exemplarily leadership benefiting graduate students and faculty.
(November 1 Application Deadline)

Howard B. Palmer 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."
(November 1 Application Deadline)

 
Funding Opportunities

Below you will find a listing of College and University funding opportunities for dissertation, research and tuition support.

Dissertation Support - For support of research-related expenditures associated with a dissertation or for release time.
(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.
(Deadline EXTENDED to April 7)

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.

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 12 Application Deadline)

Summer Tuition Assistance Program - Provides tuition assistance to graduate students for a summer session.
(March 24 Application Deadline)


These student incentive programs are designed to catalyze the development and successful submission of competitive applications to external doctoral research fellowship programs. Faculty mentorship through this process is the cornerstone of these programs. Preference will be given to those applicants nominated early in the process.

Eligible Grants

Doctoral Research Fellowship Application Incentive Award - Provides awards to students who have successfully submitted an application to an external doctoral research fellowship program.
(Rolling Submission July 1, 2007 to May 1, 2008, filled on first-come, first served)

National Science Foundation - Fellowship Application Incentive Award - Provides awards to students who have successfully submitted an application to the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
(Rolling Submission July 1, 2007 to May 1, 2008, filled on first-come, first served)

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)

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.

 

Graduate Students

Contact Us

Brandy Bower, Graduate Studies Administrative Assistant

Jack Selzer, Associate Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies

116 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-1438