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There are two major categories of fellowship: those that students can
apply for directly, and those to which students must be nominated by
faculty. Most students will be more interested in the first category,
since these are the fellowships that you can actively seek for
yourself. Fellowships Requiring Applications: Overview
These are all national, well-known fellowships. In most cases (but not
all--the Hertz is available to upper-years as well) students are
eligible to apply during their senior year as an undergraduate, or at
the beginning of their first or second year in graduate school.
Unfortunately all of the fellowships listed here require U.S. permanent
residency at a minimum; most require full citizenship. These
fellowships all follow the same applcation format: 3-4 essays,
transcripts, resume or awards list, 3- letters of recommendation, and a
research proposal. Don't worry--none of them expect you to follow your
proposal, they just want to see that you can think logically about
problems in your field. Also, it's perfectly fine to get
recommendations from both your undergrad and graduate programs
(internships/summer jobs/research labs are another good source for
these).
Fellowships Requiring Faculty Nominations: Overview These
fellowships come from a wide variety of sources, and are applicable to
students at various stages in their careers: beginning, n-th year, and
postdoc. Most of these are open to international students as well.
Although you cannot apply to these directly, it can still be helpful to
know about them so that you can discuss them with your advisor if you
wish. Some of these put candidates through a post-nomination interview
process, while others are awarded with no student involvement
whatsoever.
Fellowships Requiring Applications: Details
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens; Seniors, 1st-years, 2nd-years
Yearly stipend: $30,000
Conditions: None
Duration: 3 contiguous years
App Deadline: Nov. 19
Rec Letters: 4
Deferrable: Up to 2 years
Good to know: This one is well-known in CS departments all over the place.
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Sponsor: Department of Defense (your work need not be related to the DoD in any way)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens; Seniors, 1st-years, 2nd-years
Yearly stipend: $31,000
Conditions: None
Duration: 3 contiguous years
App Deadline: Jan. 7
Rec Letters: 3
Defereable: In special cases only
Good to know: The NDSEG's money comes straight to you instead of
through the department, which means that if you TA while on this
fellowship, you get your TA stipend in addition to your full fellowship
stipend. Not a bad deal!!
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Sponsor: Department of Energy (your work need not be related to the DoE in any way)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens & permanent residents; Seniors, 1st-years, 2nd-years
Yearly stipend: $28,000
Conditions: Summer internship at a DoE lab, and coursework in mathematics and natural sciences.
Duration: 3 contiguous years
App Deadline: Mid-January
Rec Letters:3
Deferrable: ???
Good to know: This fellowship is intended for cross-disciplinary students, such as in computational biology or robotics (for example).
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Sponsor:Department of Homeland Security (your work need not be related to the DHS in any way)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens; Seniors, 1st-years, 2nd-years
Yearly stipend: $27,600
Conditions: Summer internship with the DHS.
Duration: 3 contiguous years
App Deadline:Feb. 19
Rec Letters:3
Deferrable:No
Good to know:This one is brand-new as of last year. Many people don't know about it yet, so it's definitely worth a shot.
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Sponsor:Hertz Foundation
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens & permanent residents; any year of study
Yearly stipend: $25,000 (9 months)
Conditions: None
Duration: 5 years (renewed yearly upon satisfactory progress)
App Deadline:Oct. 29
Rec Letters: ??? (at least 3)
Deferrable:No, but if an alternative fellowship is used for 3 of
the 5 years, Hertz will provide an additional $3,000 for each of those
years and pay $33,000 for the two not covered by the other fellowship.
Good to know:This one is extremely competitive since so few are given out each year.
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Sponsor: Google
Eligibility: Enrolled in Ph.D program, or be an undergraduate senior. Must be studying Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
One-time award: $10,000 for winners; $1,000 for finalists.
Conditions: None, but they fly you to Google for a few days of events and will also pay for you to attend Grace Hopper in the year that you win.
Duration: 1 year
App Deadline: Feb. 1
Rec Letters: 2
Deferrable: No
Good to know: All finalists are interviewed over the phone to determine the winners.
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Sponsor:AT&T
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen Women & Minorities; Seniors and first-years
Yearly stipend: $28,560 (10 months)
Conditions: Summer internship with AT&T
Duration: 3 years
App Deadline:Jan. 15
Rec Letters: 3
Deferrable: No; but if alternate funding is used, the fellowship's yearly stipend can be replaced by a $2,000 grant.
Good to know: Finalists are interviewed in person. Additional perk is a $500 book allowance.
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Sponsor:American Association of University Women
Eligibility: U.S. Citizen or permanent resident Women beginning their dissertation work
Yearly stipend: $30,000
Conditions: None
Duration: 1 year
App Deadline:Nov. 15
Rec Letters: 3
Deferrable: No
Good to know: $20,000/year postDoc fellowships are also offered by the AAUW (the above information pertains to their Dissertation Fellowship
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Sponsor:NASA
Eligibility: U.S. citizens in any year of their graduate study.
Yearly stipend: $18,000
Conditions: None
Duration: Renewable up to 3 years
App Deadline:Feb. 1
Rec Letters: Only ONE!!
Deferrable: No
Good to know: This comes with a potential internship at a NASA or JPL research lab, even though it's not advertised on the site.
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Sponsor:Ford Fund
Eligibility: Ethnic minority U.S. citizen Ph.D candidates.
Yearly stipend: $21,000
Conditions: Attend a one-time Ph.D forum
Duration: 1 year
App Deadline:Dec. 1
Rec Letters: ??3??
Deferrable: No
Good to know:
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Sponsor:AMD
Eligibility: Enrollment in Ph.D program studying computer graphics, multimedia, chip or system design, or related research.
Award: $25,000
Conditions: None
Duration: N/A
App Deadline: Feb. 15
Rec Letters: 1, from your advisor
Deferrable: No
Good to know:
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Sponsor:NVIDIA
Eligibility: Completion of the first year and continuing enrollment in a Ph.D program in one of the following (or a related) areas: Computer Science/Engineeering, System Architecture, EE. Nationality/citizenship is specifically not considered.
Stipend: $25,000 toward tuition/fees, plus an NVIDIA Quadro card.
Conditions: None
Duration: 1 year. Winners (and others) are eligible to apply each year
App Deadline: Feb. 22
Rec Letters: 1
Deferrable: No
Good to know: You need to be officially nominated by your school or advisor; the nomination is essentially the required rec. letter.
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Sponsor:Yahoo!
Eligibility: Enrollment in Ph.D program. Preference given to those studying Web Search, Machine Learning, Microeconomics and Computation, Media Experiences and Design, Community Systems, or Mobile Web Applications.
Yearly stipend: Tuition+Fees. $1,000 gift to your department.
Conditions: None, but you have the (optional) opportunity to do an internship at Yahoo!
Duration: 2 years with a possible third
App Deadline: Dec. 14
Rec Letters: 2
Deferrable: No
Good to know: You need to be officially nominated by your school or advisor; the nomination is essentially one of the two required rec. letters.
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Sponsor: ACM/IEEE
Eligibility: Completion of the first year of a Ph.D program, with preference given to those studying areas aligned with the high-performance computing community's interests.
Award: Roughly $5,000 based on funding availability.
Conditions: None.
Duration: Awards are one-time, selected annually.
App Deadline: Oct. 30
Rec Letters: 1, from your advisor
Deferrable: No
Good to know: You need to be officially nominated by your school or advisor; the nomination is essentially the required rec. letter.
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Fellowships Requiring Faculty Nominations: Details
Sponsor: ARCS Organization (Achievement Rewards for College Students)
Eligibility: U.S. Citizens in their first year of study
Yearly stipend: $10,000 for Founders Fellows; $5,000 for Named Fellows
Conditions: Attend an annual luncheon
Duration: 3 years
Application: None
Good to know: We are lucky to have an extremely active ARCS chapter in Seattle, so UW gets a lot of fellowships from ARCS.
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Sponsor: Microsoft
Eligibility: Students completing their 2nd or 3rd year; students at U.S. or Canadian institutions only
Yearly stipend: $20,000 plus tuition and fees. TabletPC and possible internship at Microsoft Research.
Conditions: None
Duration: 2 years with possible extension of one additional year
Application: Thesis proposal, resume, 3 rec letters. Finalists are interviewed in person at Microsoft.
Good to know: A maximum of three of these can be awarded to a single department in a given year.
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Sponsor: Intel
Eligibility:Students within 18 months of graduating (this is
very loose and people have won this with 2-3 years left to go).
Students must have the legal right to work in the U.S. without
sponsorship.
Yearly stipend: ~$25,000 plus tutition, fees, and books. You also get a laptop and a potential internship at Intel.
Conditions: Fly to an Intel site to meet your Intel mentor & other fellowship recipients.
Duration: 1 year
Application: Research proposal, transcripts, resume, and 3 rec letters
Good to know: The department makes ~4 nominations to this per year.
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Sponsor: IBM
Eligibility: Students worldwide in their 2nd year or higher
Yearly stipend: $17,500 plus tuition and fees (for U.S. and Canada; stipend varies elsewhere)
Conditions: You are also expected (but not *required*) to do an internship at IBM.
Duration: 3 years (renewed each year)
Application: Completed by a faculty member.
Good to know: None. :)
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Departmental Fellowships
There are quite a number of endowed fellowships that come from or
through our department here at UW. These include several "CSE
fellowships" for first-years, and several named/endowed fellowships.
These don't require applications and for the most part you'll just be
notified if you've been chosen to receive one.
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