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