Fwd: [CSC - Faculty] Fwd: updates to NSF GFRP sollicitation

[Tiffany Barnes]

The new NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with early November deadlines.

Only people with less than one academic year of graduate school are eligible, see below. Please share with people who would be interested.

Tiffany Barnes

Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

NC State University

Tiffany...@gmail.com 

http://eliza.ncsu.edu/

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From: 'Georgios Rouskas' via csc-faculty <csc-f...@lists.ncsu.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Subject: [CSC - Faculty] Fwd: updates to NSF GFRP sollicitation
To: George Rouskas <rou...@ncsu.edu>

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Colleagues,

Please note the changes to the NSF GFRP program, and share with your students. 

George

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Professor and Interim Department Head
NC State Computer Science

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From: Kara Peters <kjpe...@ncsu.edu>
Date: September 29, 2025 at 5:19:24 PM GMT+2
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Cc: Chris Frey <fr...@ncsu.edu>
Subject: updates to NSF GFRP sollicitation



COE Department Heads and Directors of Graduate Programs:

Please share this with your faculty and students,

On September 26, 2025, the National Science Foundation released the NSF 25-547: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Program Solicitation.  There are significant changes to this program that affect student eligibility and the time frame for submission is relatively short:

·       Applicants should carefully and thoroughly review the Detailed Eligibility Requirements in Section IV of the program solicitation for full information.

·       Eligible:  Undergraduates, bachelor’s degree holders, those in joint bachelor’s-master’s programs, and first year Ph.D. students

·       Second-year Ph.D. students are no longer eligible.  The specific requirement is that applicants must have “completed less than one academic year in a graduate degree program (according to the institution’s academic calendar; non-degree coursework must be clearly identified in the transcript and does not count toward this limit)”.

·       Individuals enrolled in joint bachelor's-master's degree programs and in graduate degree programs can apply only once.

·       The application deadlines depend on discipline, ranging from November 10, 2025 through November 14, 2025.  For example, Computer and Information Science and Engineering and Materials Research applications are due November 12, 2025 and Engineering applications are due November 13, 2025.

·       In all cases, reference letters are due Friday, November 7

·       “NSF will continue to emphasize high priority research areas in alignment with Administration priorities as stated in A Letter to Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy – The White House and detailed in the FY 2026 NSF Budget Request to Congress.”

Thanks

Kara

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Kara Peters

Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Postdoctoral Affairs, College of Engineering

Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor

Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

FHW 4263

Centennial Campus 
North Carolina State University  

919-513-3285

mae.ncsu.edu/people/kjpeters