Overview

The Fellowship Incentive Program (FIP) recognizes the professional development inherent in honing a graduate student's grant-writing and research communication skills, and the importance of getting feedback on materials. To be eligible for the Fellowship Incentive Program, individual grant and fellowship opportunities must provide sufficient opportunities for developing these skills and must be approved by Grad Success Center to be eligible for FIP.

While by no means exhaustive, the following list provides examples of opportunities that are in scope for the Fellowship Incentive Program. For other opportunities, please contact the Grad Success team at grad-success@uiowa.edu.

STEM (and related Social Sciences)

• American Heart Association (AHA) Predoctoral Fellowship(link is external) (Summer) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions
• Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Fellowship(link is external) (January) -- Master's or Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions
• NASA FINESST(link is external) (usually February) -- Master's or Ph.D., few citizenship restrictions (see PDF pp. 11-12(link is external))
• NDSEG (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program)(link is external) (December) -Master's or Ph.D., USA citizens/nationals (not permanent residents)
• NIH F31, F31 Diversity, F30, R36(link is external) (multiple deadlines per year) -- Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D., USA citizens/permanent residents
• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants(link is external) (deadline varies by subject) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions.
• NSF GRFP(link is external)  (October) -- Master's or Ph.D., USA citizens/permanent residents
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grants(link is external) (Spring, Fall) -- doctoral students, no citizenship restrictions

Humanities (and related Social Sciences)

• Charlotte Newcombe(link is external)  (November) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions
• Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art(link is external) (October) -- Ph.D., U.S. citizens/permanent residents
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship(link is external) (October) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions
• Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies(link is external) (November) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions

Education

• AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research(link is external) (November) -- Ph.D., U.S. citizens/permanent residents
• NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship(link is external) (October) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions

Open Across Disciplines

• AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship(link is external)  (November) -- Ph.D., U.S. citizens/permanent residents
• AAUW International Fellowship(link is external) (November) -- Master's or Doctoral, citizen of a country other than the USA
• BTAA Smithsonian Institution Fellowship(link is external) (November) -- Ph.D., no citizenship restrictions
• Ford Foundation(link is external)  (November) -- Ph.D., U.S. citizens/permanent residents and DACA recipients
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program(link is external) (September, start work with UI International Programs in early summer) -- Master's or Ph.D., U.S. citizens/permanent residents
• Point Foundation Scholarship(link is external) (January) -- Master's or Doctoral, any citizenship, LGBTQ applicants

Other awards of comparable scope may be considered with approval in advance--please contact grad-success@uiowa.edu(link sends e-mail).