New NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Site
Posted by admin | Under Fellowships Friday Aug 1, 2008A new site has recently been created for the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). This site provides applicants with useful information about the fellowship, such as reasons for applying, tips to start your application and insights into the essay questions. The new site also has a page dedicated to helping potential applicants connect to people who are familiar with the GRFP in some way. Under the section “Find Experienced GRFP Resource Persons” applicants can search for their university and look up people who will be able to help them with their application. Professors and others who want to get involved with promoting the fellowship can also sign up on the website to be a guide, request an outreach visit for their school or print off promotional material to distribute.
It’s a very nice site and the GRF Operations Center hopes that it will help potential applicants make their applications stronger and also encourage more students to apply. Visit www.nsfgrfp.org
I have a question. How many years after graduation (BS) does NSF look for “extrracurricular” activities as a requirement for awarding a fellowship? My son was told by someone in NSF that has proposal was one of the best written they’d ever received, but as an undergraduate he had no extracurriculars. Now he’s in grad school in chem working 8-85 hour weeks and has no time for anything else. Does NSF really look for extracurriculars for grad students in chem and bio, or do they let up on that requirement after one is immersed in grad research — or do they forever look back for what you did as an undergrad?