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CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowships

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Application period closed for 2009

See also the ESRL-CIRES Fellowships.

 CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowships
CIRES has long supported a Graduate Student Research Fellowship program to promote student scholarship and research excellence. The program embraces a dual approach by 1) attracting the best talent to CU at the outset of their graduate careers, and 2) enabling graduating seniors to complete and publish their research results.

What is a CIRES graduate student research fellowship?
A CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowship (GSRF) provides support for an outstanding current or prospective graduate student affiliated with CIRES. Students receive tuition coverage, partial health insurance, half-time stipends during the academic year, and can include 100% salary during the summer.

Who is eligible?
Any current or prospective Ph.D. student advised by a CIRES Fellow is eligible for this one-time award. Fellowships can be used either to recruit prospective students or to support advanced students. Funding for prospective students may be used in their second year if a Teaching Assistantship covers their first year.

Applying for a Fellowship
Candidates are evaluated on the likelihood for environmental science contribution evident in their University of Colorado application and/or accomplishments to date. Independence, passion for science, and ability to communicate are considered. Limits will not be put on departments or general topics. To understand what is required of them, candidates should read the instructions for faculty sponsors (Word or PDF).

Who nominates and who decides?
Each CIRES Fellow may nominate one student for a fellowship each year. A committee of three CIRES Fellows who have not nominated any students will select the final recipients.

For more information, contact Suzanne van Drunick, Assistant Director for Science (suzannev@cires.colorado.edu).

For additional graduate research assistance, see also:

March 23, 2009
Seven Students Selected For 2009-10 CIRES Research Fellowships

Seven Ph.D. students at CU-Boulder will have the unique opportunity to tackle exciting science questions with top researchers in their fields as part of the CIRES Graduate Student Research Fellowship program. The students will explore a variety of creative geoscience topics, from modeling the influence of melt water on the ice dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet to surveying airborne microbial communities across different landscapes.

The 2009-2010 recipients are Robert Bowers, William Colgan, Adina Racoviteanu, Jose Solis, Raina Gough, Nathan Bradley, and Amy Watson. The students represent the following CU-Boulder departments: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Geography, Geological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering.

CIRES awards research fellowships to graduate students every year in order to attract the best talent to CU-Boulder and offer current and prospective students the opportunity to conduct professional research and publish their work. Students selected for the fellowship receive tuition coverage and a yearly stipend.