Nick Heinle all rights reserved. Teaching assistantships are offered through the specific academic department, from which applications can be obtained. This form, submitted directly to the Federal Student Aid Program Office, Iowa City, Iowa, is used to determine financial need only, a component of the eligibility criteria for many fellowships, and for all forms of financial aid.
Financial support is usually available only to U.S. citizens.
The award is renewable for a second year. An additional three years of support are guaranteed through other sources of graduate student funding such as research or teaching assistantships, assuming satisfactory progress is made toward earning the Ph.D. degree. Thus, the IMSD award provides five full years of guaranteed support for graduate study. NSF Graduate Research Fellowship NSF Graduate Fellowships offer recognition and three years of support for advanced study to approximately 900 outstanding graduate students in the mathematical, physical, biological, engineering, and behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science and the philosophy of science, and to research-based Ph.D. degrees in science education. Applicants must be United States citizens or nationals, or permanent resident aliens of the United States.