FUNDING MEMO
Title: IBM PhD Fellowship Award Program
Funding Agency: IBM
Internal Deadline: 12/08/2022 02:49 PM PST
External Deadline(s):
Cognizant Office: OTTCP
Description:
Strong collaboration with faculty, students and universities is vital to IBM. The IBM PhD Fellowship Program advances this collaboration by recognizing and supporting exceptional PhD students who want to make their mark in promising and disruptive technologies.
Total Award: $60,000
- US awards: $60,000 in award year one; $35,000 in award year two
- Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member and must be enrolled as a full-time student in an academic PhD program.
- Please forward all nominations to the Graduate Studies Office for review; all nominations must be approved by the Graduate Studies Office before submission to IBM. No more than three nominations per department may be submitted to IBM.
- Notification of nominee status takes place in March of the following year.
- Once Graduate Studies Office approves your nomination, nominate your PhD student for an IBM PhD Fellowship Award
Indirect Costs:
- Any awarded fellowships will be considered “Pass-Through Fellowships” handled by the Graduate Office
Duration: 2 years
Discipline(s): Biology and Biological Engineering; Engineering and Applied Science; Humanities and Social Sciences; Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy
Eligibility: Grad Student
Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member . The nominator provides the supporting documentation (CV, dissertation description, etc.), categorizes the student's initial career interests, and submits the nomination for evaluation.
All IBM PhD Fellowship awardees are matched with an IBM mentor according to their technical interests and are encouraged to participate in an internship at least once while completing their studies. Students receiving a comparable fellowship or internship from another company or institution during the same academic period may not be eligible for an IBM PhD Fellowship.
Students should have three years remaining in their graduate program
at the time of nomination
. The IBM PhD Fellowship is intended to cover the last two, research-oriented years of a PhD program. For example, nominees that are enrolled in a 4-year graduate program should have completed two years of their graduate program as of summer 2022 in order to benefit the most.
Faculty receiving this email can submit nominations until Nov 5, 2021 regardless of the earlier date on the website.
Research Areas of Interest:
TBD
Guidelines & Other Information:
Guidelines, FAQ, and Eligibility Requirements:
https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships.html
Opportunity ID: 1313