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National Fellowships Incentive Program (NFIP) Returns for 2017-18
The Graduate School, in collaboration with the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships (ONSF), is pleased to announce the second year of its incentive program to encourage faculty to take a more active role in advising students who apply for prestigious, nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships.
Under this program, UConn and UCHC faculty are eligible for up to $5,000 in rewards for mentoring students through the process of developing proposals and submitting applications for eligible awards. Last year, more than 50 UConn faculty received incentive payments. Applications for the 2017-18 round of funding opened on August 7, 2017.
Program Rationale and Goals
Many UConn students are promising candidates for individual fellowships, but many who are eligible do not apply. Faculty advising, mentoring, and support are vital to the development of quality proposals and successful applications. Therefore, The Graduate School and ONSF created the National Fellowships Incentive Program (NFIP) to broaden and deepen faculty involvement in this particular form of mentoring and to encourage submission of high quality applications from students enrolled in disciplines in which individual fellowships are available.
Program Description
Faculty members whose research advisees apply for an eligible extramural individual fellowship (e.g. NSF-GRFP, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Award, etc.; see online application for more details) will receive $1,000, deposited into an unrestricted (Ledger 4) research account. If the student’s application is funded, the faculty adviser will receive an additional financial reward of $4,000.
Eligibility
This program is available to faculty advisers of graduate and undergraduate students in any degree program discipline in which extramural individual fellowship funding is available. Please note that faculty must apply for this award in a timely manner to receive the incentive payment.
To review program guidelines and access the online application, visit http://onsf.uconn.edu/nfip.
For more information, contact: Vin Moscardelli, Director of the Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships, at onsf@uconn.edu.