[QSB-grads] Dissertation Fellowships for next academic year

[Miriam Barlow]

Dear QSB Faculty,

I am pleased to announce two Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowships for
QSB to be disbursed in Fall 2019, Spring 2020 or in “Late Spring” (Summer)
2020. The Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (GDDF) program is
intended for students in their* final semester/term of graduate school*,
providing them time to focus solely on completion of the dissertation. This
award should help enhance awardees’ qualifications as candidates for
university faculty teaching and research appointments, for postdoctoral
appointments, and for research positions outside the academy.

 These fellowships are open to all QSB doctoral students who are advanced
to candidacy at the time of completing their application, and who are one
semester/term away from completion of their degree. All QSB doctoral
graduate students are eligible for this award regardless of United States
citizenship. Awardees must have a GPA of 3.0 or above and be enrolled in 12
units during their final semester, when the dissertation fellowship is
awarded. A student who has previously received funding for completing their
dissertation work is ineligible to receive a GDDF. Preference will be given
to applicants who have progressed according to QSB’s expected
time-to-degree, which is 5 years. *Award recipients are expected to file
their **dissertation** by the end of the award period*. Fellows who have
not filed their dissertations by the end of the award period are *NOT
eligible for any further financial support from the Graduate Division or
from QSB*. Fellows are prohibited from being employed during the award
period. The value of the fellowship is ~$2750/mo for 4 months plus tuition
and fees but not campus based fees during the Spring, and $7763 as a lump
sum during “Late Spring” for the summer term.
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> If you have a QSB doctoral student who meets these eligibility
requirements and is prepared to defend in Spring or Summer, please nominate
them by sending *their CV* and a* brief narrative* detailing their path to
timely completion as a response to this email by midnight on May 20. Please
also state the term of expected date of filing of the thesis (Fall, Spring
or Summer). We will rank candidates according to academic performance, time
in the program, and need.

*If this award is accepted and the student does not graduate by the end of
the anticipated semester, they are no longer eligible for
any fellowship funds from UCM, including summer fellowship money.  Please
only nominate students who are truly eligible.*
-- 
Miriam Barlow
Founding Faculty and Professor
Chair, Quantitative and Systems Biology
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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