Awards & Fellowships

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The Graduate Award and Fellowship Program aims to recruit the best graduate students around the world and financially support them to pursue innovative research projects in nanoscale science and technology at UW.  The Program provides annual support on a competitive basis.  The recipients must reapply awards and fellowships annually for a maximum support of two or three years.  The annual competition takes place during the spring quarter.

• Early Bird Awards in Nanotechnology offer entering graduate students financial support to join the research group of one of the participating nanotech faculty members during the summer quarter preceding their first academic year or during the Fall quarter of their first year in graduate school. Early Bird Awards are restricted to US citizens and Permanent Residents. Meritorious students are nominated by the admission committees of participating departments from their applicant pool. The Center decides on the finalists before departmental admission expires.
   
• Nanotechnology Graduate Research Awards support innovative graduate research projects in nanoscale science or nanotechnology through funding from the University of Washington Initiatives Fund (UIF). Applicants should have excellent academic records. UIF awards are provided for a maximum of two years. (more information)
   
•  Student Travel Awards to establish or strengthen collaborations between CNT investigators and extramural partners.  These awards are available to students enrolled in the Nano Ph.D. program or supported by IGERT or UIF fellowships at the time of application. (more information)
   
• Jonsson International Exchange Fellowships in an effort to initiate collaborations in Nanoscience, Photonics and related fields between the University of Washington (UW) and Linköping University (LiU) in Sweden, we have initiated new fellowships for international research experiences at Linköping University, Sweden. The fellowships will fund the salaries and travel expenses for UW graduate students and postdocs to go to Linköping University for one or more quarters to do research with a professor there in nanoscience, photonics or related fields. Ideally these would be done in a way that the UW professor here also will get involved, so that it can serve to seed-fund longer-term collaborations between UW professors and LiU researchers. (more information)