NSF DCL: Supplemental Funding for Graduate Students to Enter Workforce

Dear Colleague Letter: Improving Graduate Student Preparedness for Entering the Workforce, Opportunities for Supplemental Support

Please find attached a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) describing a variety of opportunities for NSF-funded graduate students to pursue professional development experiences to prepare them to enter the workforce. From the letter:

Enhanced experience supplements will enable single/collaborative awardees to request appropriate levels of additional support for existing graduate students to acquire professional development experience that will broaden avenues for entering the workforce. These supplements would provide graduate students with the opportunity to augment their research assistantships, and in some cases fellowships and traineeships, with additional "mentoring" activities and short-term training opportunities. Enhanced activities supplements will be available to existing, larger institution-level,"center-like" activities to support cohorts of graduate students with the goal of developing new "best practice activities" for enhancing graduate student preparedness for entering the workforce.

The participating NSF organizations include: BIO, CISE, EHR, ENG, GEO, MPS, SBE, and OIA. Details such as submission deadlines, contact information, and preparation instructions are provided in separate sections for each organization.

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David Spielman, Ph.D.
Special Projects Manager
Vanderbilt University Office of the Vice Provost for Research