Thank you note submission

• Please click here to review our donor bios in order to customize your thank you note.
• Electronic submission at [Updated links coming soon] by July 15, 2025
  • The online system will ask you to include information about your personal and academic background, community service activities you have participated in, what brought you to Texas Tech University for your graduate study, career goals/research, and how this fellowship will assist you.

Submission of one (1) application for external fellowship/grant support (only applies to full time fellowship recipients; not part-time)

• Please note that not all external funding opportunities may be accepted for this requirement. For more information on types of funding that can be approved, and other external funding application (EFA) guidelines, please visit External Fellowships & Grants webpage. 
• We have a variety of resources to help you find external fellowships and scholarships.  Our Search For Opportunities page has links to an internal database as well as external databases such as Funding Institutional, grants.gov, and a few other places that will be helpful.  These sites are free to you as a Texas Tech student and are where you should look first.  If you cannot find anything on these sites, Google may be helpful.  You may also find something by speaking with your advisor or department as they may know something that would be good for you in your field.  Most funding (scholarship, fellowship, travel funding, grants, etc.) from an agency outside of Texas Tech would fulfill the external fellowship requirement. If you find something and want to verify that it will count, you can always email us and ask.  We will be happy to verify before you apply.  
• Once you identify the external fellowship you wish to apply for, you need to submit your application to the graduate school website at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/financial/submit.php for approval.  After you submit this, you will still need to submit the information to the external funding agency. 
  • As a reminder, all eligible domestic Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantship and Recruitment Fellowship recipients, must submit an application to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.  You should have received an email from our office regarding the formation of writing groups that will aid you in the development of a competitive NSF GRFP proposal for the upcoming cycle.  For more information, please contact gradfellowships@ttu.edu.  
  • For your reference, here is information about the program National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).  Here is a video recording to an informative session for more information
  • New students not eligible for the NSF GRFP will need to make plans to identify another external funding agency to apply to meet your funding requirement.

Attend three (3) Graduate School sanctioned professional/career development activities 

• The professional development workshops must be sponsored or co-sponsored by the Graduate School. These events, which can be found here https://portal.grad.ttu.edu/events/.  Online workshops are also available (primarily for distance and part/time students) - https://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/ProfessionalDevelopment/DistanceEd.php
• Once you attend an event, you must record your attendance with the Graduate School to receive credit.  These events will be submitted at  [Updated links coming soon].  A sign in sheet at an event does not record your attendance so please make sure you fill out the information at the link provided.
• Part-time fellowship recipients must complete two (2) professional development events

Community Service (requirement only applies to United Supermarket Fellowship Recipients)

• While on this fellowship, you are required to participate in two (2) community service events/activities annually.  The community service activity can be of your choosing.
• This list may be helpful in identifying an organization to complete your community service events/activities.
• Once you have participated in a community service event, you must record your attendance with the Graduate School to receive credit.  These events will be submitted at  [Updated links coming soon].

Attendance at annual Donor/Recipient Fellowship Reception – Thursday, October 9, 2025, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.  

• More information will be distributed as the date approaches.
• Provides donors a chance to personally meet the recipients, and gives student recipients an opportunity to thank their donors.  
• 25th Annual Donor-Recipient Fellowship Reception Recording