2020-2021 was a banner year for FSU graduate students, with a record number of over 4 million dollars secured in external funding through fellowships and awards. The Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards (OGFA) along with the support of our campus community wants to make the 2021-2022 academic year even more successful for graduate students who are seeking external funding.
Welcome to the team, Dr. Keith McCall!
We are excited to welcome Dr. Keith D. McCall to Florida State University to serve as the Assistant Director for the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards.
Prior to joining the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards, Dr. McCall served as Public Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University’s Humanities Research Center, where his research focused on the history of climate change in the Houston region. Before that, Dr. McCall taught history and public history courses and was book review editor at the Journal of Southern History. Dr. McCall earned a B.A. from the University of Florida, an M.A. in history from the University of Mississippi and a Ph.D. in history from Rice University.
Graduate Student Success
OGFA assists graduate students in their pursuit of securing various types of fellowships, scholarships, and grants. We also want to document and publicize graduate student success! Our Graduate Student Recognition Database dates back to 2011 and is dedicated to celebrating the extraordinary accomplishments of graduate student award recipients, facilitating peer to peer connections, and helping the FSU community at large recognize the invaluable research and work that often take place behind the scenes in the “graduate world.”
If you have won an external award for the current 2021-2022 academic year, we want to celebrate you! Submit your award information here.
Graduate Students in the News
FSU celebrates newest McKnight Doctoral and Dissertation Fellows
This past November, more than 20 FSU graduate students were honored at the 37th McKnight Annual Fellows Meeting for receiving the McKnight Doctoral or Dissertation Fellowship. The McKnight Fellowships are designed to address the underrepresentation of African American and Hispanic faculty at universities in Florida. Read more.
FSU recognizes largest cohort of P.E.O. Scholar Award recipients
Six graduate students from Florida State University are among seven students in the state of Florida to earn prestigious Scholar Awards from the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.). The P.E.O. Scholar Awards are one-time, competitive, merit-based awards that recognize academic excellence and achievement by women in doctoral-level programs. Read more.
FSU English doctoral candidate receives NEH grant to improve visual accessibility
Aaron Rodriguez, an English doctoral candidate, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to improve accessibility of graphic and visual narratives for blind and low-vision readers. The NEH awarded 20 Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, totaling $2.3 million. Read more.
FSU graduate student earns prestigious Chateaubriand Fellowship
Modern Languages and Linguistics doctoral student, Nerea Delgado Fernández, will use the Chateaubriand Fellowship to study the intonation, or the rise and fall of the voice when speaking, of bilinguals in Basque-speaking regions in France and Spain. Since 2014, eight FSU graduate students have earned the Chateaubriand Fellowship. Read more.
Fellowship Pro-tip: Finding a Fellowship that Fits You
Fellowships are like clothes. There are many different items of clothing you could put on, but only certain clothes fit really well. These are the clothes that you love, that make you feel great, that will allow you to feel comfortable and confident. Likewise with fellowships, there are thousands to choose from but you have to do some research to identify which fellowships really fit you. Which ones have a mission and vision that align with your academic, personal, and/or professional goals both now and as you prepare for your future career. This alignment requires some front end research.
The Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards specializes in helping students answer these questions. Here are some initial tips to help you begin your journey to finding a fellowship that fits you.
A fellowship might turn out to be that perfect sweater you love. And OGFA, like a good tailor, is here to help. Who you are, what you like, and where you are in your graduate journey matters when exploring the right fellowship(s) to pursue.
Are you interested in applying for fellowships and awards but don’t quite know where to begin? Check out the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards Let’s Meet webpage for more information on how to jumpstart your fellowships and awards journey.
Spring 2022 Professional Development
OGFA Fellowship Canvas sites are live!
The OGFA Canvas site for individual fellowships is NOW LIVE! We’ve launched multiple Canvas organization sites to guide students through the process of applying for competitive fellowships, scholarships, and awards. Resources include introductions to various funding mechanisms, annotated and supplemental guides designed to assist students in various stages of the fellowship application cycle for each award, webinar links, and links to a variety of other resources. Click here to see the list of OGFA Fellowship Canvas sites.
Celebrating Graduate Education
The work and research in action of graduate students at Florida State University broadly impacts the campus community and the world around us. OGFA initiated the Grad Impact: Digital Narratives Project to capture and amplify the lived graduate student experience at FSU. Check out some of our grad student highlights below.
Coffee and Conversation Video Series
The Coffee and Conversation video series was created to build community amongst graduate students during pandemic when all things teaching and learning shifted to a remote space. The virtual video chats are informal and allow graduate students to engage in discussion about their research, a typical day in the life as a graduate student, and other topics. During these interviews, graduate students serve as an inspiration to others by sharing their lived graduate student experiences. To date, 66 video interviews have been published on The Graduate School's YouTube page.
Interested in an interview? Reach out to Honorine Rouiller (hrouiller@fsu.edu), Digital Narratives Program Manager! To share your story or nominate a Rockstar graduate student for us to highlight, submit information here.