Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN)
National Science Foundation: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding
Graduate students have the potential to make important contributions in careers outside academia: in organizations ranging from startups to large corporations; government agencies, and non-profit organizations. It is therefore important that graduate students supported by NSF grants be provided opportunities to develop skills that prepare them to be successful for a broad range of academic and non-academic career paths.
NSF will provide support for supplements to current NSF grants awarded by the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR), Directorate for Engineering (ENG), and Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), to enhance professional development opportunities for graduate students as described below. These supplements could provide graduate students with the opportunity to augment their research assistantships with additional non-academic research internship activities and training opportunities that will complement their academic research training.
The supplement will provide up to six months of support for an internship. Up to two supplemental requests may be made on a grant to allow the student two internship periods up to six months each (i.e., a maximum of 12 months per student).
Submission Deadline: June 23, 2017
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