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.
• Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Fellowship(link is external) (January) -- Master's or Ph.D.
• NASA FINESST(link is external) (usually February) -- Master's or Ph.D.
• NDSEG (National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program)(link is external) (December) -Master's or Ph.D.
• NIH F31, F30, R36(link is external) (multiple deadlines per year) -- Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.
• NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants(link is external) (deadline varies by subject) -- Ph.D.
• NSF GRFP(link is external)  (October) -- Master's or Ph.D.
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grants(link is external) (Spring, Fall) -- doctoral students

Humanities (and related Social Sciences)

• Charlotte Newcombe(link is external)  (November) -- Ph.D.
• Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art(link is external) (October) -- Ph.D.
• Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship(link is external) (October) -- Ph.D.
• Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship in Buddhist Studies(link is external) (November) -- Ph.D.

Education

• AERA Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research(link is external) (November) -- Ph.D.
• NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship(link is external) (October) -- Ph.D.

Open Across Disciplines

• AAUW American Dissertation Fellowship(link is external)  (November) -- Ph.D.
• AAUW International Fellowship(link is external) (November) -- Master's or Doctoral
• BTAA Smithsonian Institution Fellowship(link is external) (November) -- Ph.D.
• Ford Foundation(link is external)  (November) -- Ph.D.
• Fulbright U.S. Student Program(link is external) (September, start work with UI International Programs in early summer) -- Master's or Ph.D.
• Point Foundation Scholarship(link is external) (January) -- Master's or Doctoral

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