The Graduate School is pleased to offer two monetary national fellowship incentive award programs for currently enrolled URI graduate students: a Graduate Fellowship Application Pre-Award Incentive Program; and a Graduate Fellowship Post-Award Incentive Program. These incentive award programs are intended to encourage a culture where our students and their mentors prepare, submit, and receive competitive applications for national programs, as well as to underscore the value of these fellowships.
The total number of awards available in a fiscal year is subject to available funding. Individuals may receive one or both awards for a single eligible fellowship application. Individuals may receive a maximum of two scholarships from a Pre-Award Incentive Program per academic year.
The awarded funds will be applied towards the student’s academic bill. If the student has an academic bill balance of $0.00, Enrollment Services will disburse a refund check. Graduate students should note that scholarships such as these are generally subject to federal and state income taxes unless the payment is used for qualified tuition and required enrollment fees.
The Graduate School Executive Committee will review each application to determine eligibility. Once reviewed, applicants will receive notice of the application status.
Contact Cara Mitnick at cmitnick@uri.edu if you have any questions.
Submit iNCENTIVE APPLICATIONPre & Post Incentive Scholarships
Graduate Fellowship Pre-Award Incentive Program:
The Graduate Fellowship Pre-Award Incentive Program offers a $300 scholarship payment to eligible graduate students who apply for an approved externally competitive grant. Applicants must provide an electronic copy of the complete application along with verification that the application has been received by the granting agency or foundation (a screenshot of the confirmation email sent to you is sufficient).
Graduate Fellowship Post-Award Incentive Program:
The Graduate Fellowship Post-Award Incentive Program offers a $1,000 scholarship payment to eligible graduate students who apply for and receive an approved externally competitive grant. Applicants must provide an electronic copy of the complete application and a copy of the award letter.
Eligibility
Student Eligibility for Both Awards
All full-time matriculated graduate students in a graduate degree program with good standing who properly apply for and/or are awarded an approved individual fellowship funded by an extramural agency or foundation (e.g. NSF-GRFP, NIH-NRSA, NASA, etc.) that carries with it tuition funding and a stipend equal to or greater than a nine-month graduate assistantship (stipend rates listed here) are eligible to receive scholarship payments under each of the programs of $300 and/or $1,000 scholarship.
Fellowship Eligibility
Fellowship awards that begin Fall 2023 or later are eligible. For purposes of these programs, an eligible external fellowship that would receive funding under either of these programs is defined as having all of the following features:
- 1. It is externally competitive;
- 2. It is an individual award to support a student-directed project (please note that this renders most training grant programs ineligible for this program);
- 3. It is intended by the granting agency or foundation to be the student’s sole or primary source of support during the fellowship period (usually stated clearly in the program guidelines);
- 4. The fellowship period is no less than nine months in duration;
The fellowship carries with it tuition funding and a stipend equal to or greater than a nine-month graduate assistantship (stipend rates listed here)
Examples of External Fellowships
Examples of awards that are eligible:
Examples of awards that are ineligible:
If the opportunity is designed to support the applicant’s undergraduate education, if the award’s core criteria are non-academic, if someone other than the student wrote the majority of the application, or if the primary purpose of the award is to offset expenses associated with a specific research project (e.g., equipment, compensation of experimental subjects, etc.), then it will not be eligible for funding.