Student Funding

The Graduate School Funding and Assistantships team will host a webinar Apr. 19 to provide information and answer questions from faculty and staff.

Topic: Meeting with Funding/Assistantships Team
Time: Apr. 19, 2021, 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Meeting ID: 971 4543 6961
Passcode: 477656

Zoom Link

Outstanding graduate students are the key to the success of any research university. In the words of Graduate School Dean Tom Reynolds, “They are necessary to attract top faculty which in turn drives our research and scholarship forward to the next level.”

The driving force behind graduate education is the desire to address business and community needs. Our Center for Graduate Life delivers professional development, career preparation and a sense of community that equips well-educated students with leadership, cultural and communication skills they need to succeed.  Our Graduate Fellowships help provide the resources students need to maintain focus on their studies and progress toward their degree.

Please consider how you can assist UNC Charlotte’s Graduate School in educating and training graduate students whose work in laboratories, private industry and national universities contributes to America’s global leadership. Today’s graduate student becomes tomorrow’s highly trained, skilled leader or employee.

Show your support by visiting #NinerNationGives.

Four students – two from the William States Lee College of Engineering and two from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences – were awarded the highly competitive and prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation for 2021.

The four; Forest Atcheson, Electrical Engineering, Terawit Kongruengkit, Materials Engineering, Anthony Lindsay, Political Science, and Christopher Neff,  Electrical Engineering are among only 2,000 students selected nationwide to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship from more than 16,000 applicants.

For more information, please visit the Graduate School.

A new Graduate School Summer Fellowship Program (GSSF) is available for students who need financial support to continue to focus on their research over the summer months.  The GSSF Fellowship provides a $6,000 stipend for qualifying students.

More information and instructions for applying are available for download.

GPD nominations are required by Mar. 15 for some 2021-22 Graduate School Fellowships such as the Wayland H. Cato Jr. First-Year Doctoral Fellowship and the Herschel and Cornelia Everett Foundation First-Year Graduate Fellowship.

These fellowships  are funded by donors for need-based and merit awards that recognize excellent students for their academic achievement and provide assistance to those who demonstrate financial need.

More information on fellowships is available from the Graduate School’s Student Funding site.

Nominations must be submitted by Mar. 15. Student applications must be completed by Mar. 30. To nominate, GPDs can access the awards in the University Scholarship Portal.

Graduate student tuition support for ’21-22 – call for nominations with details, information and training can be found in Canvas.

For more information, please contact Julie Goodliffe, Director of Funding and Fellowships.

Nominations for the Herschel and Cornelia Everett First-Year Master’s and Doctoral Graduate Fellowship and Wayland H. Cato Doctoral Fellowship are open for 2021 awards.

These fellowships, which are available only to outstanding UNC Charlotte graduate students, are administered by the Graduate School each year. Awards begin in the upcoming academic year.

The deadline to submit nominations is Mar. 15, 2021.  To nominate, please visit the Scholarship Office Nomination Portal.

Mar. 30, 2021 is the deadline for student applications for nominated and matched awards. Application is available through the Scholarship Office Application Portal.

For more information, please visit the Graduate School’s Fellowships site.

Research and Economic Development (RED) is soliciting applications through Feb. 15 for the Spring 2021 Ignite Planning Grants program.

Ignite Planning Grants promote new collaborative research efforts and facilitate the development of interdisciplinary teams focused on preparing competitive, large-scale collaborative proposals for significant external funding. Ignite planning grants are intended to enhance existing areas of excellence, accelerate the development of emerging research strengths, and foster interactions between UNC Charlotte faculty and potential collaborators at other institutions. The program aims to lower and eliminate barriers to building collaborative teams and coordinating, planning, and preparing large, interdisciplinary multi-investigator research proposals by providing funds to (1) convene conferences and meetings, (2) coordinate workshops, (3) support travel costs for potential collaborators from other institutions, (4) hire grant-writing consultants and content specialists, and (5) conduct other proposal-development and team-development activities.

Proposals must be submitted electronically as an email attachment to ignite-planning@uncc.edu by 5 pm Feb.15. Questions may be sent to Lesley Brown, Director of the Center for Research Excellence.

The School of Data Science is accepting cross-disciplinary research proposals through January 10 for the summer 2021 seed grants for data science funding cycle. This grant opportunity is $10,000 per award, a grand total of $20,000 in funding for UNC Charlotte and partnering faculty and researchers.

For more information or to submit a proposal, please visit the School of Data Science.

The Nov. 2 Zoom webinar, Funding Q&A Session for Faculty/Staff, is available to review.  Access the Zoom recording with the passcode @K!P0^3N.