[Gradschool] How to Win a Graduate Fellowship

[Liza Wisner]

FROM: Rick Reis, reis at stanford.edu 

http://gradschool.tamucc.edu/fellowships.htm 
Don't be afraid to start writing the proposal before you feel ready. Rewriting again and again will tighten your prose, clarify your ideas, and polish your proposal. It will also help you ferret out typos. I found four in my final proposal when I reread it the other day. I got lucky in spite of that. You might not.

The following article gives some excellent advice on applying for graduate fellowships in the sciences.  It is by Michael Kiparsky is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG) at the University of California at Berkeley. 

Click here for more information: http://gradschool.tamucc.edu/fellowships.htm