Scholarly Colloquia and Events

  • 10/8 Graduate Fellowship Writing Brown Bag Series

    The Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships will be hosting a brown bag series for the month of October. All sessions will be held in HBL Video Theater 2 at 12:30pm.  This Thursday (October 8th) will focus on the following topics:


    I) NSF Graduate Fellowships: A Reviewer's Perspective

    Speaker: Michael Pettes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

    Content: What a good/poor application looks like and the importance of reference letters

    For more information about the NSF GRFP, please visit: https://www.nsfgrfp.org/

     

    II)The personal statement/ Description of previous research

    Many fellowship applications require a personal statement or a statement of previous research, this session will take you through the basics of telling a compelling story.

    For more information, contact: Rowena Grainger at rowena.grainger@uconn.edu