UTSW Students Earn Prestigious NSF Fellowships

Four UT Southwestern graduate students – including two starting this fall – have earned three-year fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). A Neuroscience trainee also won a prestigious Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB), awarded by the NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences.

Designed to support outstanding graduate students pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees, the five-year GRFP includes a $37,000 annual stipend for three years plus a cost-of-education allowance of $12,000 to the institution. Established in 1952, the GRFP is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind. Only about 10% of applicants are chosen. Past GRFP awardees include 42 Nobel Laureates and more than 450 members of the National Academy of Sciences.