Fellowships and Other Funding Sources

Departmental financial aid is available only for doctoral students; generally, funded doctoral students receive payment of tuition and fees, a stipend for living expenses, and payment of University of Pennsylvania Student Health Insurance.

There is no departmental funding available for MSE, MCIT, or CGGT students. There are no RA positions available in the department; only research fellow positions for doctoral students. Teaching assistant duties are generally met by doctoral students participating in a Teaching Practicum.

Funding sources:

• University of Pennsylvania Center for Graduate / Professional Student Finance:
  www.upenn.edu/sfs/
• University of Pennsylvania Office of Graduate Studies: www.upenn.edu/grad/$.html and www.upenn.edu/research/funding.htm
• Ashton Fellowship - The Ashton Fellowship covers tuition. The eligibility for an Ashton fellowship requires the applicant to be a third generation American born citizen under the age of 25 and be a resident of New Jersey or Pennsylvania - Ashton Fellowship application

• IBM  PhD Fellowship Program: http://www.developer.ibm.com/university/scholars/fellowship/phd/

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program: www.nsf.gov/funding/

• National Defense Science & Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program: www.asee.org/ndseg

• National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering & Science Fellowships:
  http://www.gemfellowship.org

• National Physical Science Consortium Graduate Fellowships: www.npsc.org/students/info.html
• University of Pennsylvania Fontaine Doctoral Fellowships for Underrepresented Minorities:
  www.upenn.edu/grad/fontaineweb/

• NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program: fellowships.hq.nasa.gov/grsp/nav/

• MicrosoftGraduate Fellowship: http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/jobs/fellowships/

• Gates Millennium Scholarship Program: www.gatesfoundation.org/Education/Scholarships/

• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/fellowships/

• National Institute of Health (NIH): http://grants.nih.gov/training/extramural.htm
• National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/
• Google Anita Borg Scholarship:http://www.google.com/anitaborg/
• Google scholarships - http://www.google.com/support/jobs/bin/static.py?page=students.html&sid=scholarships
• Homeland Security Fellowship:http://www.orau.gov/dhsed/Grad2006.htm
• Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: http://www.pdsoros.org/

• Dan David Scholarships (not always for computer science): http://www.dandavidprize.org/scholarships.htm

• Dept. of Defense SMART  scholarship: http://www.asee.org/fellowships/smart/

• ETS Fellowships: http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships.html

• L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women In Science (postdoctoral): http://www.lorealusa.com/?uid=forwomeninscience

• Scientific Chateaubriand Fellowship:www.france-science.org/chateaubriand_2005/index.htm

• The PEO Foundation supports graduate education for women with scholarships  - application information is at http://www.peointernational.org/about/
• The Business and Professional Women's Foundation created the Career Advancement Scholarship Program to award financial assistance to disadvantaged women who want to further their education; information is at www.bpwusa.org
• The Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation Scholarship is available to women graduate students with physical disabilities; information at www.ela.org/.
• Horizons Foundation Scholarship was established to encourage women to pursue careers related to the national security interests of the United States; information at http://wid.ndia.org/horizon/scholar.htm.
• At www.upenn.edu/curf/fellowships/fellowships.htm are fellowships mainly geared towards undergraduates, but some may be of interest to grad students
• Chinese Scholarship Council funding for candidates from the P.R. China - http://www.csc.edu.cn/en/

• IBM Josef Raviv Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship - http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/research.nsf/pages/d.compsci.raviv_fellowship.html
   raviv-fellowship@watson.ibm.com
• UPENN Graduate & Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) Research Student Travel Grant Program - http://www.gapsa.upenn.edu/funding/fellowships

Funding Application Schedule- http://www.cis.upenn.edu/grad/funding_schedule.shtml