Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Spring 2015)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Spring 2015)

Internal CS Deadline: 3/16/2015
External Deadline: 4/7/2015

See: https://www.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/listing/2807

Dissertation Completion Fellowships are designed to help outstanding students complete the doctoral degree in a timely fashion by providing a one-year stipend of $20,000, a full waiver of tuition, service fee, health service fee, AFMA fee, Library fee, as well as basic dental and vision coverage.

The intent is to free Fellows from assistantships and other such obligations, allowing them to devote full-time to the completion of the dissertation. No concurrent assistantship appointment or employment of any kind is permitted with the Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

Applicants must be enrolled in a program leading to the PhD, DMA, EdD, or JSD and should have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the dissertation. Only those students who will defend and deposit their dissertations by August 2016 are eligible for nomination. Therefore, students who have not yet passed the preliminary exam should not apply.  Students who have not completed their 500-level (non-thesis) coursework should not apply.

Eligible students must be nominated by their department or program. Only two nominations may be submitted from each degree-granting department or program.

Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on March 16 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Research Proposal. The proposal should be written in an accessible, jargon-free manner appropriate for the Graduate College's multidisciplinary review panel.  The proposal should include the following elements: research question, hypothesis (if applicable), significance, literature review, preliminary research, methodology, and timeline. The proposal should be a maximum of three pages, double-spaced, with one inch margins, and in Times New Roman. A separate bibliography (one page maximum) is allowed, but no appendices are allowed.
2) Curriculum vitae.
3) Two letters of reference, one from the student's adviser and one from the student's thesis director. If the student's adviser and thesis director are the same person, the second letter should come from another member of the student's dissertation committee.

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files.  Letters of recommendation should be sent directly to colinr@illinois.edu.  Students, please include your netid in your file names.