The Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards is here to support throughout your graduate career at FSU! From professional development workshops to one-on-one advising, our goal is to help you secure external funding to support your education. 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.
Graduate Student Success
FSU Graduate Students secured more than $4.8 million of external funding in the 2022-2023 academic year, and 2023-2024 is on track to be another record year. During the month of April, The Graduate School and the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards will host the Annual Celebration of Graduate Student Excellence event to celebrate the recipients of awards managed by The Graduate School and external fellowships and awards! If you were awarded an external fellowship to support your graduate education for the current academic year, 2023-2024, we want to celebrate you! Submit your award information here.
Pro-Tip: Networking
The relationships you build during graduate school are important for your success during your degree program and beyond! Building collaborative relationships can support your research, help you advertise the impact of your work in action, and can cue you in to important opportunities for your academic and professional growth. But building those relationships can be challenging. This edition of our Pro-Tip focuses on the skills of Networking--how to build and maintain the relationships that will support your graduate education and career aspirations.
Watch as former OGFA Graduate Assistant Honorine Rouiller interviews John Combs, Assistant Director and Career Liaison for the College of Social Work and College of Arts & Sciences in the Career Center, Lauredan Official, Master's student in Public Administration, and Jessie Yuan, Master's student in Social Work and Public Administration. Together, they discuss the best practices of networking, different strategies to build relationships, and offer some ideas of questions to ask at a networking event. Then, armed with these tips and strategies, join us in February for the OGFA Spring Networking Event!
Spring 2024 Professional Development
If you are a current FSU student, please register with your FSU email.
Funding Your Graduate Education: Intro Meeting/Database Search
OGFA staff will facilitate small group meetings to assist graduate students with navigating award databases to identify fellowships and awards that are a good "fit" to support their graduate education.
- January 23 | 11:00 AM | Register here
- February 21 | 11:00 AM | Register here
- March 21 | 11:00 AM | Register here (With a focus on International Students)
- April 17 | 11:00 AM | Register here
Graduate Student Award Recipient Panel Discussion
February 27 | 2:00 PM | Register here
Join us for a panel discussion featuring FSU graduate students who are recent recipients of external fellowships and awards. Our awardees will discuss how they approached their applications, share tips they learned along the way, and make time for Q&A.
High Impact Proposal Writing (Hybrid – Zoom and HSF 3008)
March 7 | 10:00 AM | Register here
This workshop will focus on breaking down fellowship application guidelines to identify what is required in a competitive application. Evangeline Ciupek, Community Engagement Manager with the College of Music, will discuss how to strategize and plan an application and provide tips for writing high-impact proposals.
Communicating the Significance of Your Research
March 28 | 2:00 PM | Register here
Explaining your research to a broad audience of fellowship reviewers can be challenging. In this interactive workshop, we will practice pitching the significance of your research to your target audience and refining the answer to the elusive “so-what” question.
Getting Started with the Application Process
April 9 | 10:00 AM | Register here
Applying for a fellowship or grant can seem overwhelming. Where do you even start? How do you organize all the moving pieces? Who should you ask for assistance? In this workshop, we’ll demystify the application process and help you organize your approach to submitting strong funding proposals.
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Information Session
April 4 | 2:00 PM | Register here
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers opportunities for graduate students (U.S. citizens) to teach English, enroll in graduate coursework, or conduct independent research in more than 140 countries. This extremely flexible program is open to students in all degree programs and disciplines. In this info session, we’ll cover the basics of the Fulbright program and hear from previous FSU awardees about their experiences with the program.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) Information Session
April 18 | 11:00 AM | Register here
The NSF GRFP provides three years of funding across a five-year period for students (U.S. citizens) in graduate-level STEM programs. Students can only apply once as graduate students, either during their first or second years. This highly competitive award requires strong applications. Join us for an info session breaking down the application components, review criteria, and selection process.
Networking Event
Kick off the Spring 2024 semester by making connections with graduate students across campus! On February 29, 2024, the Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards will host a Networking Event aimed at creating interdisciplinary collaborations and peer support networks. Get out of your disciplinary silos! Come grab a bite to eat, learn about fellowships and awards, and meet other FSU graduate students! The Spring Networking Event will take place in the HSF House Nancy H. Marcus Great Hall from 5 to 7 PM. Space is limited. Register here.
David A. Winston Health Policy Scholarship
The David A. Winston Health Policy Scholarship identifies and supports promising young people committed to a health policy-related master’s degree in any discipline, field, or profession from any school or program that is housed in an accredited college or university. For 2024 up to twenty awards of $10,000 will be offered to each selected student who demonstrates their potential to succeed in health policy, health administration, and/or health management at either the state or national level upon graduation from their degree program.
Deadline: March 15, 2024
Davis-Putter Scholarship
The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides financial support for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movements for liberation, self-determination and social and economic justice in their communities. These need-based scholarships are awarded to students who are enrolled at a college or university or in a trade or technical program. The maximum grant available is $15,000 per year (from July 1 through June 30), however the average grant for 2022-23 was $7,500.
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Sertoma Communicative Disorders Scholarship
Sertoma’s Communicative Disorders Scholarship, funded by the Sertoma Annual Fund, is for graduate students pursing advanced degrees in audiology or speech-language pathology from institutions in the U.S. These scholarships, worth $1,000 each, are awarded in the spring to help offset the cost of tuition, books and fees incurred during the following school year.
Deadline: March 30, 2024
Marilyn Blatt Young Dissertation Completion Fellowship
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations invites applications for its dissertation completion fellowship. SHAFR will make one year-long award in the amount of $25,000 each, to support the writing and completion of the doctoral dissertation in each academic year. Applicants should be working on a topic in the field of U.S. foreign relations history or international history, broadly defined, and must be current members of SHAFR.
Deadline: April 1, 2024
Graduate Students in the News
FSU history doctoral student receives Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Japan
Emily Lu will use the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program fellowship to support her dissertation research on the intersection of the arts and politics in imperial Japan during the wartime periods leading up to 1945. Read more.
Sport Management doctoral student takes top prize at FSU’s Three Minute Thesis competition
Hyosoon Yim, a doctoral student in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences’ Sport Management program, claimed the top prize of $1,000 for his dissertation research “Social Media Intervention for Promoting Sport Participation among Older Adults: Application of the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory.” Read more.
FSU graduate claims Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction
A Florida State University graduate whose fiction writing draws from his experience as an immigrant from Nigeria has earned the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Iheoma Nwachukwu earned his doctorate in creative writing from FSU in 2018 and is now a professor at Eastern University in St. Davids. Read more.
FSU’s kinesiology doctoral program ranked No. 3 nationally
Florida State University’s doctoral studies program in kinesiology ranks in the Top 3 nationally, according to the latest National Academy of Kinesiology rankings. “The credit for this ranking is due to the many outstanding faculty, students, and staff who serve as leaders in their discipline,” said Damon Andrew, dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences. Read more.
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.
If you are interested in sharing your experience and research, please submit your profile info here.
Carine Schermann
French
"All about challenge and knowledge sharing!"
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Earvin Casciano
Social Work
"One gains knowledge in the area they desire."
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JoVontae Butts
Philosophy
"Achieve the greatest refinement possible."
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Gizem Solmaz-Ratzlaff
Curriculum and Instruction
"Improving children's education benefits our future."
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Rachel Neale
Russian and Slavic
"Specialize knowledge, diversify skills, expand network"
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Click here to see more #Gradimpact student profiles.
Master's in Four Competition
Are you a Master's student interested in developing your academic, presentation, and research communication skills? If so, present your research at the Master's in Four competition! Prizes range from $250 to $1,000.
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OGFA Spring Networking Event
Join us for an in-person Networking Event to foster peer to peer connections between students interested in applying for EXTERNAL fellowships and students already in the process of applying for EXTERNAL fellowships. Come grab a bite to eat, learn about fellowships, and meet other FSU grad students!
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HSF Excellence in the Visual Art Award
Are you an artistic graduate student? If so, apply to participate in the HSF Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition Awards! You can win up to $500 and have your work exhibited in the HSF House. Click here to see the 2023 winners.
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