Fellowships Office Information
Fellowships Office Information
With a staff of one, the Graduate College Fellowships Office at UIC works mainly with three groups: graduate students, graduate programs, and external funding agencies. Services for graduate students include resources and assistance in targeting, applying for, and managing funding. We work closely with departments to help with student funding questions. The Fellowships & Awards Coordinator serves as an/the official UIC contact for a number of external fellowships and funding agencies as well and the unofficial for other opportunities.
Graduate students will come to recognize us (by name) through the “Friday Funding Email.” Weekly during the academic year and bi-monthly during breaks, the email is a curated list of internal (to UIC and the UI System) and external funding and employment opportunities, or “opps.” The select number of jobs are local with the understanding that recipients range from the starting graduate student desperate for on-campus employment to the recent graduate seeking to put their higher education degree to good use. We focus on jobs at UIC and local nonprofits. Funding opportunities are those run the gamut, from those we run in the Graduate College to high-profile opps like with household brand names like “Fulbright” and “NSF.” The list tends to offer 20+ opps that we think UIC graduate students can and should obtain. Often we include helpful “other opps” related to life as a graduate student, e.g., saving for retirement now, as well as links to the tools we use. Our goal is to raise awareness of the funding opps available to UIC graduate students AND to help them succeed.
Faculty and academic departments come to know the office through its outreach and advising. Upon request, the Fellowships & Awards Coordinator — sometimes with the Grad College’s Writing Specialist and co-Fulbright Program Advisor — provides presentations about grad funding (generally) and funding opps specific to a discipline. Advising for Boren, CLS, DAAD, Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, and NSF often brings the office into regular conversation with individual faculty members and their mentees. The office also handles allocated tuition and partial fee waivers.
For further information, please review the Graduate Funding Overview section of the UIC Graduate College website.
If you are seeking to verify a medical fellow or medical residency, you are in the wrong office. Please contact the Office of Graduate Medical Education in the College of Medicine. (Yes, the units’ names are very similar.) We will not respond to errant faxes to the Graduate College. See links below.