HHMI International Student Research Fellowship

[Rachel Goeller]

Dear Psychology Grad Students,

For those of you who are international students and not eligible for NSF and other U.S. federal fellowships, please have a look at the announcement below. If your research is biomedical in nature, or related, please evaluate your eligibility. The HHMI fellowships would be prestigious and provide very nice support.

Best,

--Gordon Legge, DGS


The University of Minnesota has been invited to participate in the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research
Fellowship (HHMI ISRF) 2016-17 competition. This fellowship will support
the research training of international Ph.D. students, who are
ineligible for fellowship or training grant support through federal
agencies, and who are in the biomedical or other disciplines in which
the student’s project is directly related to the life sciences. The
award consists of a yearly stipend (for up to three years) of $30,000,
plus a yearly allowance for tuition and health insurance.

To apply for nomination by the University of Minnesota, the applicant must:

  * NOT be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or permanent resident
    of the United States.
  * be registered for graduate credit at the University of Minnesota and
    currently in the second or third year of a doctoral program in a
    field related to the biomedical sciences, including biology,
    chemistry, physics, math, computer science, engineering, and plant
    biology—as well as interdisciplinary research. If the research area
    falls outside the biomedical or related sciences, the thesis project
    must be related to biomedical science and the advisor or co-advisor
    must have a strong biomedical component to his/her research as well.
  * have entered the laboratory in which the dissertation research will
    be conducted.
  * be able to provide three strong letters of reference from faculty
    who can attest, in specific detail, to the innovativeness,
    creativity, and research potential of the applicant.

Interested students should complete the HHMI ISRF​ ​Nomination

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Application
by

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12

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noon, October 14, 2015. A faculty selection committee will choose ten
names to forward to the national competition. HHMI will provide the
individual nominees with the information needed to complete the online
application in early 2016.

Please call (612) 625-7579 or e-mail gsfe...@umn.edu if you have any
questions.

Thank you

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