Graduate Student Professional Development Workshops
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program:
Workshop for Graduate Students and Graduate Faculty
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
9:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-3:30 p.m. (repeat session)
City Campus Union
Presenter: Tim Turner, National Science Foundation, GRF Operations Center
NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program offers a $30,000 annual stipend and a $10,500 cost-of-education allowance for three years. Attend this workshop and learn how to put together an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship package and receive valuable suggestions for writing a competitive fellowship application.
NSF supports the following fields: Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Geosciences, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, and Social Sciences.
Mr. Tim Turner has been managing federally-funded programs for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) since 1986. In 2004, ASEE was awarded the contract to provide administrative support of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program, and Mr. Turner was promoted to Program Director for ASEE's GRF Operations Center. He provides management and oversight of all promotion and outreach activities, application processing support, and evaluation review activities. Previously he has managed ASEE fellowship programs that support graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and summer faculty participants sponsored by the Department of Defense (DOD), NASA, and the Department of Energy (DOE). Mr. Turner holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the California State University, Long Beach and a bachelor's of landscape architecture from the University of Maryland.
