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Fellowships, Awards, and International
Opportunities as a Graduate Student
Markita Landry
2012
Overview
1) International Research Opportunities
• Make the most of your graduate school years!
2) Conference & Travel Awards
• Rely on yourself to present your work
3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
• Unconventional approaches and opportunities in graduate
school pay huge dividends later
• Stand out from other advanced degree-holders
Overview
1) International Research Opportunities
2) Conference Awards
3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
• Japan
• China
• Korea
• Taiwan
Program Duration: "All institutes last approximately 8
weeks from June to August. Japan lasts approximately
10 weeks from June to August."
Benefits:
- $ 5,000 stipend.
- International round-trip airfare to the host location.
- Abroad living expenses by foreign co-sponsoring
organizations
- Orientation to the science environment and culture
of each location."
NSF EAPSI
• Singapore
• New Zealand
• Australia
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284
• In 2009: 50% acceptance rate
• Japan, New Zealand, Australia
• Correspondence with host PI strongly recommended
• Consider continuing your thesis project abroad
Application Tips
• Technique developed in Osaka continued at my home
graduate institution
• Turned into a multi-year collaboration
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/25/nar.gks1345
• Austria
• Czech Republic
Who Should Apply?
• Enrolled MS and PhD students in sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science,
Engineering, Environmental Science, Mathematics)
• US Citizens and Permanent Residents
Award Benefits
• Fellowship award of $2,000
• Round-trip international airfare to Central Europe
• Living costs (room and board) for 8 weeks
• Health and accident insurance
• Four-day academic and cultural orientation in Budapest, Hungary
NSF CESRI
• Poland
• Slovakia
• Germany
• Hungary
• The world (55 countries)
Fulbright Fellowships
Participants: Students, Scholars, Teachers, Professionals
Benefits: Most Fulbright grants are fully-funded; benefits include roundtrip
transportation to the host country, monthly maintenance for the length of the grant, full
or partial tuition (if applicable), accident/sickness coverage, and the cost of mandatory
Fulbright orientation and enrichment activities.
Duration: A few weeks to a year
Research Training & Travel Grant
• Up to $15,000 for domestic or
international travel
• Acquire new technique
• Facilitate a collaboration
• $2,500 grant to spend 2 weeks
in Boston
• New collaboration
• You are the PI of your own
proposal
• This got me my post-doc!
http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/biomedical-sciences/collaborative-research-travel-
grants
Travel Awards: How to Guarantee a Win
Application Tips
• Show enthusiasm for collaborative/interdisciplinary research
• Establish communication with host PI prior to application
• Include correspondence and letters of support of your host
PI in your application
• Emphasize how your visit will benefit your research
• Bonus: Mention how you visit will benefit your host lab
International Research Opportunities
EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute)
• http://www.nsfsi.org/
CESRI (Central Europe Summer Research Institute)
• http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/CESRI
Fullbright
• http://fulbright.state.gov/
Burroughs Wellcome Fund Research Training Grant
• http://www.bwfund.org/pages/481/Collaborative-Research-Travel-Grants/
Application Links
Overview
1) International Research Opportunities
2) Conference Awards
3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
Conference Awards
Professional organization meetings
• ACS, APS, BPS, ASCB…
• Some will have travel awards for
students
• Funding through school or
department
General science meetings
• Less-well publicized
• Put together by small group of people
or private foundation
• Generally come with guaranteed
funding if accepted
Professional Organizations
Gordon Research conference minority travel grant - $600
• http://www.grc.org/diversity.aspx?page=2
Biophysical society meeting travel award (general & minority) - $500/$1000
• http://www.biophysics.org/2013meeting/TravelAwards/MACTravelAwards/tabid/3643/Default.as
px
American Society for Cell Biology minority affairs travel award - $ 1400
• https://www.ascb.org/meetings/Forms/MAC_awards/mactravel1.cfm
WCC/Eli Lilly ACS travel award - Variable
• Funding for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral female chemists
• http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/
American Physical Society student travel award - $1000
• http://www.aps.org/programs/education/undergrad/students/futurephysics/travelgrants.cfm
AIChE – Has 2 travel awards: one for women, one for minorities ($500)
• https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/womens-initiatives-committees-wic-travel-award-
program
• http://www.aiche.org/community/awards/janice-lumpkin-travel-award
Conference Travel Awards
Conference Awards
Professional organization meetings
• ACS, APS, BPS, ASCB…
• Some will have travel awards for
students
• Funding through school or
department
General science meetings
• Less-well publicized
• Put together by small group of people
or private foundation
• Generally come with guaranteed
funding if accepted
General Science Meetings
PASI (Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes Program)
• A 1.5-week conference (usually in Central or South America) that
brings together researchers from the USA and from Central/South
America
• Talks are in English, but the goal is to network and form
collaborations between scientists across the Americas.
• http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5327
Scalable, Functional Nanomaterials, Costa Rica
Process Modeling for Energy and Sustainability, Brazil
New Frontiers in Seismological Research: Earth Structure, Ecuador
Tropical ecology & Biogeochemistry, the Lowland Amazon, Perú
Electronic Properties of Complex Systems, Colombia
Frontiers in Imaging Science, Colombia
Scientific computing in the Americas: massive parallelism, Chile
Volcanic Hazards in Pacific Latin America, Costa Rica
Concepts and Model Organisms in Regenerative Biology, Chile
Dynamics and Chemistry of the Upper Atmosphere, Argentina
Rare Nuclear Isotopes, Brazil
Expanding the Frontier in Tropical, Costa Rica
Function and Regulation of the Cytoskeleton, Brazil
Topics in Theoretical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Mexico
PASI Quantum Gravity, Mexico
Dynamics and Control of Marine Vehicles, Colombia
on Climate Change and Hazards in the Americas, Panama
Computational Science and Engineering, Venezuela
Energy, Water, and Global Change, Mexico
Modeling in Computational Science and Engineering, Venezuela
Nano-Bio: The Intersection of Bio, Condensed Matter, Puerto Rico
Surfaces, Interfaces, and Catalysis, Brazil
PASI in Scalable, Functional Nanomaterials – Costa Rica
Conference Awards: General Science Meetings
Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates
• 1-week meeting in Lindau, Germany
• Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Interdisciplinary
• ~1000 young researcher participants
• ~75 Nobel Laureates
• http://www.orau.org/lindau/default.shtml
(U.S)
• www.lindau-nobel.org/ (Non-US)
• Exchange knowledge of world class nanoscience and
nanobioscience between graduate students from
institutions worldwide
• 1 week of lectures on nano(bio)sciences
• 2 weeks of hands-on experimental and computational
training supervised by the host peers
Junior Nanotechnology Network (JNN)
“A Self-Organized PhD Student Exchange Program”
http://www.cens.de/international/exchange-programs/jnn/
• Global Health Initiative
• 2 weeks in Accra & Cape Coast, Ghana
• Hospital & healthcare center visits
• University & research lab visits
GHI in Ghana
http://globalhealth.illinois.edu/
Overview
1) International Research Opportunities
2) Conference Awards
3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
Virginia Tech future faculty
http://www.provost.vt.edu/faculty_affairs/faculty_recruitment/future_faculty/future_
faculty.html
Rice University future faculty
http://advance.rice.edu/
NC State U future faculty
http://oied.ncsu.edu/oied/diversity/BFF.php
MIT Chemistry
http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/diversityworkshop.html
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i04/8804notw8.html
Future Faculty Programs
Want to be a faculty? Visit prospective schools before you apply and get
your foot in the door!
2010 Future Faculty @ NC State University
Hesitant?
“Traveling will delay my graduation time”
Perhaps, but not if you plan your abroad research well. A well-though out research proposal
that is an extension of your thesis work can actually expedite your thesis completion!
Joining a foreign lab for a few months through EAPSI, CESRI, or Fulbright can give you new
tools and a new perspective on your work.
“I’m worried my adviser won’t let me participate”
Place emphasis on how this will benefit your adviser’s research group. You will be funded by
the program (free labor!) while advancing your thesis work. Make sure you have an idea of
the research you want to do abroad, how it ties into the research your adviser wants you to
complete, and have a compelling reason to do this work in your host lab. Good reason: the
host lab is an expert in a technique that can help me get results I need. Bad reason: I just
want to travel.
“I don’t speak a foreign language”
You don’t need to! The worst that will happen is that you’ll find out you’ve been doing your
laundry with dish detergent. For better or worse, most research around the world is
conducted and published in English. So, even if your host country’s native language isn’t
English, many of your labmates will be able to converse with you.
In Summary…
• Grad school: Something between school and a career
• It is your responsibility to produce research output
• But you also have the freedom to choose how to achieve
your research goals
https://sites.google.com/site/markitalandry/graduate-fellowships
For More Information…
Graduate fellowships:
Post-doctoral Fellowships:
https://sites.google.com/site/markitalandry/postdoc-fellowships
https://sites.google.com/site/markitalandry/future-faculty-programs
Professional development programs:

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Unconventional Opportunities for Graduate Students

  • 1. Fellowships, Awards, and International Opportunities as a Graduate Student Markita Landry 2012
  • 2. Overview 1) International Research Opportunities • Make the most of your graduate school years! 2) Conference & Travel Awards • Rely on yourself to present your work 3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench • Unconventional approaches and opportunities in graduate school pay huge dividends later • Stand out from other advanced degree-holders
  • 3. Overview 1) International Research Opportunities 2) Conference Awards 3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
  • 4. • Japan • China • Korea • Taiwan Program Duration: "All institutes last approximately 8 weeks from June to August. Japan lasts approximately 10 weeks from June to August." Benefits: - $ 5,000 stipend. - International round-trip airfare to the host location. - Abroad living expenses by foreign co-sponsoring organizations - Orientation to the science environment and culture of each location." NSF EAPSI • Singapore • New Zealand • Australia http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284
  • 5.
  • 6. • In 2009: 50% acceptance rate • Japan, New Zealand, Australia • Correspondence with host PI strongly recommended • Consider continuing your thesis project abroad Application Tips • Technique developed in Osaka continued at my home graduate institution • Turned into a multi-year collaboration http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/12/25/nar.gks1345
  • 7.
  • 8. • Austria • Czech Republic Who Should Apply? • Enrolled MS and PhD students in sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Mathematics) • US Citizens and Permanent Residents Award Benefits • Fellowship award of $2,000 • Round-trip international airfare to Central Europe • Living costs (room and board) for 8 weeks • Health and accident insurance • Four-day academic and cultural orientation in Budapest, Hungary NSF CESRI • Poland • Slovakia • Germany • Hungary
  • 9. • The world (55 countries) Fulbright Fellowships Participants: Students, Scholars, Teachers, Professionals Benefits: Most Fulbright grants are fully-funded; benefits include roundtrip transportation to the host country, monthly maintenance for the length of the grant, full or partial tuition (if applicable), accident/sickness coverage, and the cost of mandatory Fulbright orientation and enrichment activities. Duration: A few weeks to a year
  • 10. Research Training & Travel Grant • Up to $15,000 for domestic or international travel • Acquire new technique • Facilitate a collaboration • $2,500 grant to spend 2 weeks in Boston • New collaboration • You are the PI of your own proposal • This got me my post-doc! http://www.bwfund.org/grant-programs/biomedical-sciences/collaborative-research-travel- grants
  • 11. Travel Awards: How to Guarantee a Win Application Tips • Show enthusiasm for collaborative/interdisciplinary research • Establish communication with host PI prior to application • Include correspondence and letters of support of your host PI in your application • Emphasize how your visit will benefit your research • Bonus: Mention how you visit will benefit your host lab
  • 12. International Research Opportunities EAPSI (East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute) • http://www.nsfsi.org/ CESRI (Central Europe Summer Research Institute) • http://www.iie.org/en/Programs/CESRI Fullbright • http://fulbright.state.gov/ Burroughs Wellcome Fund Research Training Grant • http://www.bwfund.org/pages/481/Collaborative-Research-Travel-Grants/ Application Links
  • 13. Overview 1) International Research Opportunities 2) Conference Awards 3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
  • 14. Conference Awards Professional organization meetings • ACS, APS, BPS, ASCB… • Some will have travel awards for students • Funding through school or department General science meetings • Less-well publicized • Put together by small group of people or private foundation • Generally come with guaranteed funding if accepted
  • 15. Professional Organizations Gordon Research conference minority travel grant - $600 • http://www.grc.org/diversity.aspx?page=2 Biophysical society meeting travel award (general & minority) - $500/$1000 • http://www.biophysics.org/2013meeting/TravelAwards/MACTravelAwards/tabid/3643/Default.as px American Society for Cell Biology minority affairs travel award - $ 1400 • https://www.ascb.org/meetings/Forms/MAC_awards/mactravel1.cfm WCC/Eli Lilly ACS travel award - Variable • Funding for undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral female chemists • http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/ American Physical Society student travel award - $1000 • http://www.aps.org/programs/education/undergrad/students/futurephysics/travelgrants.cfm AIChE – Has 2 travel awards: one for women, one for minorities ($500) • https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/womens-initiatives-committees-wic-travel-award- program • http://www.aiche.org/community/awards/janice-lumpkin-travel-award Conference Travel Awards
  • 16. Conference Awards Professional organization meetings • ACS, APS, BPS, ASCB… • Some will have travel awards for students • Funding through school or department General science meetings • Less-well publicized • Put together by small group of people or private foundation • Generally come with guaranteed funding if accepted
  • 17. General Science Meetings PASI (Pan-American Advanced Studies Institutes Program) • A 1.5-week conference (usually in Central or South America) that brings together researchers from the USA and from Central/South America • Talks are in English, but the goal is to network and form collaborations between scientists across the Americas. • http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5327 Scalable, Functional Nanomaterials, Costa Rica Process Modeling for Energy and Sustainability, Brazil New Frontiers in Seismological Research: Earth Structure, Ecuador Tropical ecology & Biogeochemistry, the Lowland Amazon, Perú Electronic Properties of Complex Systems, Colombia Frontiers in Imaging Science, Colombia Scientific computing in the Americas: massive parallelism, Chile Volcanic Hazards in Pacific Latin America, Costa Rica Concepts and Model Organisms in Regenerative Biology, Chile Dynamics and Chemistry of the Upper Atmosphere, Argentina Rare Nuclear Isotopes, Brazil Expanding the Frontier in Tropical, Costa Rica Function and Regulation of the Cytoskeleton, Brazil Topics in Theoretical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Mexico PASI Quantum Gravity, Mexico Dynamics and Control of Marine Vehicles, Colombia on Climate Change and Hazards in the Americas, Panama Computational Science and Engineering, Venezuela Energy, Water, and Global Change, Mexico Modeling in Computational Science and Engineering, Venezuela Nano-Bio: The Intersection of Bio, Condensed Matter, Puerto Rico Surfaces, Interfaces, and Catalysis, Brazil
  • 18. PASI in Scalable, Functional Nanomaterials – Costa Rica
  • 19. Conference Awards: General Science Meetings Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates • 1-week meeting in Lindau, Germany • Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Interdisciplinary • ~1000 young researcher participants • ~75 Nobel Laureates • http://www.orau.org/lindau/default.shtml (U.S) • www.lindau-nobel.org/ (Non-US)
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  • 21. • Exchange knowledge of world class nanoscience and nanobioscience between graduate students from institutions worldwide • 1 week of lectures on nano(bio)sciences • 2 weeks of hands-on experimental and computational training supervised by the host peers Junior Nanotechnology Network (JNN) “A Self-Organized PhD Student Exchange Program” http://www.cens.de/international/exchange-programs/jnn/
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  • 23. • Global Health Initiative • 2 weeks in Accra & Cape Coast, Ghana • Hospital & healthcare center visits • University & research lab visits GHI in Ghana http://globalhealth.illinois.edu/
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  • 25. Overview 1) International Research Opportunities 2) Conference Awards 3) Professional Growth Beyond the Bench
  • 26. Virginia Tech future faculty http://www.provost.vt.edu/faculty_affairs/faculty_recruitment/future_faculty/future_ faculty.html Rice University future faculty http://advance.rice.edu/ NC State U future faculty http://oied.ncsu.edu/oied/diversity/BFF.php MIT Chemistry http://web.mit.edu/chemistry/www/diversityworkshop.html http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/88/i04/8804notw8.html Future Faculty Programs Want to be a faculty? Visit prospective schools before you apply and get your foot in the door!
  • 27. 2010 Future Faculty @ NC State University
  • 28. Hesitant? “Traveling will delay my graduation time” Perhaps, but not if you plan your abroad research well. A well-though out research proposal that is an extension of your thesis work can actually expedite your thesis completion! Joining a foreign lab for a few months through EAPSI, CESRI, or Fulbright can give you new tools and a new perspective on your work. “I’m worried my adviser won’t let me participate” Place emphasis on how this will benefit your adviser’s research group. You will be funded by the program (free labor!) while advancing your thesis work. Make sure you have an idea of the research you want to do abroad, how it ties into the research your adviser wants you to complete, and have a compelling reason to do this work in your host lab. Good reason: the host lab is an expert in a technique that can help me get results I need. Bad reason: I just want to travel. “I don’t speak a foreign language” You don’t need to! The worst that will happen is that you’ll find out you’ve been doing your laundry with dish detergent. For better or worse, most research around the world is conducted and published in English. So, even if your host country’s native language isn’t English, many of your labmates will be able to converse with you.
  • 29. In Summary… • Grad school: Something between school and a career • It is your responsibility to produce research output • But you also have the freedom to choose how to achieve your research goals
  • 30. https://sites.google.com/site/markitalandry/graduate-fellowships For More Information… Graduate fellowships: Post-doctoral Fellowships: https://sites.google.com/site/markitalandry/postdoc-fellowships https://sites.google.com/site/markitalandry/future-faculty-programs Professional development programs: