Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowships

These awards are designed to increase the completion rate of Ph.D. students and to enhance recruitment of new students. Recipients must be advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. by the beginning of the fellowship award period, be scheduled to be employed on an assistantship (RA, TA, or GPTI) for the award year, and expect to complete their dissertation during the year of their fellowship. Support will be available for up to 12 months to enable students to dedicate their time exclusively to dissertation research. The stipend level will be the equivalent of their current assistantship stipend, and it may be augmented from other sources (no outside employment is allowed).

Students may not apply for this fellowship - they must be nominated. Nominations must come from faculty and must include contributions from the major advisor and an endorsement from the department/program.  Recipients will be funded by the Graduate School.  Departmental/college/grant funds previously used to support the DDC fellow must be used to recruit a new Ph.D. student. 

Timetable for Nomination Cycle

 

Nominations are Closed

NOTE:

Nominators need to only fill out ONE nomination form (no preliminary nomination is required).

 

Nominees currently funded on a faculty member's grant

Nominations Closed

 

Nominees currently funded on a department fund

Nominations Closed

 

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