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Graduate > Financial aid, fellowships and awards


All Ph.D. students are fully supported upon entering the graduate program, including tuition, benefits and stipend. Select students receive fellowships and awards for their achievements in teaching and research, or their potential to become outstanding scientists.  Support from external sources is also available.
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Fellowships

​Fellowships provide funding for graduate student expenses. Beyond prestige, recipients can devote their full effort to research year-round.

UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS
 
Presidential Fellowship 
The presidential fellowship is the most prestigious award for incoming graduate students. Competition is reserved for only the most outstanding candidates.
 
University Fellowship 
Awarded to outstanding incoming graduate students, these awards are intended to support students who demonstrate outstanding potential for success in their chosen fields.
 
Future Faculty Fellowship
Intended to attract outstanding students who would diversify the professoriate. Candidates are newly admitted graduate students from underrepresented groups in the applicant's discipline who show exceptional leadership and/or have overcome significant obstacles in pursuing an academic career. 
 
EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS

The following are nationally competitive fellowships for extraordinary students in the chemical sciences. While exact award amounts and terms change each year, the fellowships generally provide multiple years of stipend support.
 
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (3 years of support)
https://www.nsfgrfp.org/
Deadline: October/November 
 
NIH Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (typically 2-3 years of support)
http://grants.nih.gov/training/F_files_nrsa.htm
Deadline: Several throughout the year
 
NDSEG Graduate Fellowship (3 years of support)
https://ndseg.asee.org/
Deadline: December
 
Hertz Foundation Fellowship (5 years of support)
http://www.hertzfoundation.org/
Deadline: October

 

Awards

Awards are given in recognition of excellence in scholarship, teaching or service.
 
UNIVERSITY AWARDS
 
Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant
For the Doctoral Dissertation Completion Grant, departments nominate doctoral students who have completed all requirements for the degree, except the required dissertation, and are advanced to candidacy. The Doctoral Dissertation Completion grant includes a stipend and one credit of tuition remission. The award is for five months.
 
DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS
 
Daniel Swern Fellowship
The Swern Fellowship was established as a memorial to Professor Daniel Swern, a truly distinguished member of the Fels Research Institute and the Department of Chemistry. It was designed to help outstanding graduate students as they pursue their dissertation research.
 
Francis H. Case Fellowship Fund
Dr. Francis Case was a professor of Organic Chemistry for 61 years at Temple University. Please contact the Chemistry Department for more information on this award.
 
Guy F. Allen Memorial Award
Mary Ellen Allen, to commemorate her husband's interest in graduate student participation in the education of undergraduate students and as a living memorial to her husband, started this fund as an award for outstanding Teaching Assistants. This award is given annually to outstanding T.A.'s in Chemistry for their excellence in teaching.
 
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AWARDS 

Graduate Award for Outstanding Teaching
 
Graduate Award for Outstanding Research
 

Additional resources

There are many more fellowships and awards for graduate students that meet certain eligibility requirements. Awards are available for travel to conferences as well as research experience in national labs. Find more opportunities using the following links.

Temple University Graduate School external funding 
https://grad.temple.edu/admissions/costs-financial-aid-more/external-funding-opportunities
 
Temple University research funding 
http://www.temple.edu/research/researchadmin/sp_find_funding.html
 
American Chemical Society (ACS) graduate fellowships and awards
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/students/graduate/scholarships.html
 
Columbia University external funding page
http://gsas.columbia.edu/external-fellowships
 
Grants.gov (database of federal funding opportunities)
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html

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