National Science Foundation Fellowships

NSF Fellowships offer large ($30,000+) stipends for scientists who haven't completed more than 12 months of graduate study at the time of their application to the program, and a lot of flexibility about how you use them (any three years over a five-year period). Not surprisingly, this makes them rather competitive, but UCSD has always had a run of good luck getting them.

Deadlines are approaching. There's no institutional involvement here: you just register, fill out the application, follow the instructions, and submit.

Here's the list of deadlines for this year:

November 1, 2006 (Wednesday): Interdisciplinary Fields of Study

November 3, 2006 (Friday): Computer and Information Science and Engineering

November 3, 2006 (Friday): Mathematical Sciences

November 6, 2006 (Monday): Geosciences

November 6, 2006 (Monday): Psychology

November 6, 2006 (Monday): Social Sciences

November 8, 2006 (Wednesday): Life Sciences

November 9, 2006 (Thursday): Engineering

November 13, 2006 (Monday): Chemistry

November 13, 2006 (Monday): Physics and Astronomy