Research

We encourage you to become active grant writers, seeking out and applying for appropriate fellowships and external grants throughout your graduate career. There are a number of resources available to assist you in finding, writing and submitting grant and fellowship applications. Good luck!
 

Resources

• Gretchen Busl, the Associate Program Director of Grants and Fellowships, is the central point of contact for all students in the Graduate School applying for external grants and fellowships. She provides both individual consultation services and university-wide programs to support students in the application process. Her advisory capacity includes guidance in defining research goals at various stages of the graduate programs, assistance in locating and applying for funding opportunities, strategies for efficiently articulating personal and professional goals in proposal statements, feedback on drafts of application materials, and advice for working effectively with faculty during the application process. (631-2443)
• Calendar
• Research Action Plan
• Office of Research

Internal Funding Opportunities

A number of institutes and centers on campus offer funding for graduate students to pursue additional professional development activities. A listing of those opportunities can be found here.

• Graduate School Professional Development Grants
  • Budget Documentation Sample

External Funding Opportunities

Resources Maintained by ND Offices

• Graduate Fellowship Database (New URL!)

Additional Resources

• Community of Science (COS)
• The H-net Fellowships Listing

NSF Related Resources

• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Resources
• The NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (NSF-DDIG)
• Writing Successful NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grants: Perspectives on Proposals and the Review Process from Two Former Panelists (Hall and Moyle, 2006)

Fulbright Related Resources

• Improving Your Fulbright Application Workshop
• Fulbright Program Grants for Research Overview

Budgeting Resources

• Budget Preparation presentation prepared by the Office of Research

• Event Calendar
• Event Registration
• Event Evaluation Form

Submitted Proposals and Applications

If you have applied for or have won funding from an external grant or fellowship, please let us know!

• Funding Application Report
• Funding Awarded Report

Using COS

To create a COS profile:

1. Go to cos.com
2. Click on the green “New User? Register FREE” button on the upper left corner
3. Click “Join”
4. Fill in all the information with a red asterisk

To search for funding opportunities:

1. Log in to cos.com
2. Click on “My COS Workbench” (the button to the left)
3. Click on the “Search COS Funding Opportunities” tab
4. Do general searches* from here, for click “Advanced Search” for more specific filter opportunities

*Please also note that the “search” button on the bottom of the page is conveniently located next to the “clear fields” button.