Overview of National Needs Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellowship Grants Program.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) The program will provide funds for a limited number of grants to support graduate student stipends and cost-of-education institutional allowances. These grants will be awarded competitively to eligible institutions. In order to encourage the development of special activities that are expected to contribute to Fellows' advanced degree objectives, the program will also provide competitive, special international study or thesis/dissertation research travel allowances for a limited number of USDA Graduate Fellows. To encourage academic institutions to provide additional training/mentoring to outstanding USDA Graduate Fellows who have completed their doctoral degrees, the program will also provide postdoctoral Fellowship grants to a limited number of USDA Graduate Fellows. (b) Based on the amount of funds appropriated in any fiscal year, HEP will determine: (1) Whether new competitions for graduate Fellowships, postdoctoral Fellowships, and/or special international study or thesis/dissertation research travel allowances will be held during that fiscal year; (2) The degree level(s) to be supported—master's, doctoral and/or postdoctoral; (3) The proportion of appropriations to be targeted for Fellowship stipends for each respective degree level supported; (4) The proportion of appropriations to be targeted for the cost-of-education institutional allowances for each respective degree level supported; (5) The proportion of appropriations to be targeted for the special internationa

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 3402.5