The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) is now inviting applications to its Graduate Fellowship Program.
These $5,000 summer fellowships are intended for graduate students working on topics with relevance to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences. This program prepares students to apply for competitive external funding and equips them with valuable career skills via a summer grant writing workshop taught by Prof. Nicole Landi. IBACS Graduate Fellows attend a short grant-writing workshop where they will write an NIH F31 or F32 application and participate in a mock review panel, styled after NIH review panels, during which fellows review peer applications. Students who eventually submit an NIH F31 or F32 will have the scientific portion of the application finished by the end of the workshop. Students interested in submitting NSF GRFP, NRSA (pre- or post-doctoral fellowship), or equivalent should still apply.
Open to: IBACS Graduate student affiliates
Key Application Dates: Opens on December 1, 2025, and closes December 31, 2025.
Graduate students who are not US citizens are eligible to apply and are expected to work with their advisor to develop an external research proposal if they are not eligible for federal funding. Students who were fellows in summer 2025 may apply if they submitted the external grant proposal they developed last year and it was not funded, with the expectation that they will revise their previous grant or develop a new one. If you are fully funded for the summer period (e.g. you are a UConn Health graduate student or grant -funded), you are eligible to apply and attend the workshop without the funding component. If you are a student in any of these situations, please see the details on our website for more information.
Please refer to the full details on our webpage, including eligibility and conditions on awards before you apply. If you have any questions, please contact Crystal Mills at crystal.mills@uconn.edu.