Many graduate students attended the UCSC Graduate Division's Grant Writing Workshop: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), and we decided to create a grant writing support page for the NSF-GRFP. Below is a link to the NSF-GRFP website:

National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201/.

Current UCSC NSF-GRFP Fellow Kevin Schlaufman's Proposal can be accessed at the below website:

http://www.ucolick.org/~kcs/nsf/

You can read NSF-GRFP Fellow Sara Maxwell's not winning (2005) and winning (2006) Proposals.

Proposed Research 2005.

Research Experience 2005.

Supporting Essay 2005.

Proposed Research 2006.

Research Experience 2006.

Personal Statement 2006.

We hope this information will be valuable to you and wish you the best of luck on your application!

-Julio

Julio Cardona

Assistant Dean

Division of Graduate Studies, Kerr Hall 283D

University of California, Santa Cruz

phone: (831) 459-3731

fax: (831) 459-4843

Here are links to our general lists of fellowships:

Fellowships listed alphabetically.

Fellowships listed by category, including Fellowships for Minorities and Women.

Fellowships listed by deadline date.

Postdoc Fellowships, and Minority Postdocs.

To see the growing list of our graduate students who have recieved fellowships and awards, go here