I had a thought about graduate school fellowships and added it to the prior past about the NSF GRFP limitations to first year graduate students. [ETA 09/29/2025: I forgot to mention something important about NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. These are not merely beneficent government handouts for some lucky nerds. These are requests, made by the […]| DrugMonkey
The solicitation for the 2025 submission dates for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is out, with the first deadline of November 10 for life-sciences disciplines. The big news is that el…| DrugMonkey
[Update: The Chronicle is reporting as of 2/10/2025 that F31-diversity applications have been re-instated to the study sections for review. If true, this is excellent news.] One of the primary NIH training fellowships is the Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award for graduate students, aka, the F31. It is requested with individual […]| Drugmonkey
I ran across a clip of the current Director of the NIH and the prior Acting Director (and current Principal Deputy Director of the NIH) expressing great concern about scientists in training. As per…| DrugMonkey