GSG 2025-26 Research Fellowship Application

GSG Research Fellowship Application

The Graduate Student Government (GSG) Research Fellowship is an award designed to help graduate students further their research interests. This award may be used to fund research related expenses including, but not limited to, research related travel, workshops, conferences, field trips, performances, exhibitions, lab equipment, studio equipment, and so on. This year we are awarding up to $1,000 towards an Award. To learn more about this 2025-2026 GSG Research Fellowship Award please visit GSG Website, which contains application guidelines as well.The deadline to complete the application is 5 PM, Jan 31st, 2026.

Application Materials
Please keep all your application materials like SOP,LOR,CV, Budget, UC Transcript etc. ready for upload.
Type of Research Fellowship Application*

Regular RF AwardInnovation and Entrepreneurship RF AwardInclusive practices and Community planning RF Award
Amount Requested*
Please keep in mind that we award a maximum amount “Innovation and Entrepreneurship” ($2000).

Budget Category*

	Item/s	Total Estimated Cost
Experiment Materials (reagents, metals)
Sample Production (prepared agar, tissue samples)
Prototype Production (tools, building materials)
Use of lab facilities (clean room fees, machine usage)
Software (statistical analysis, modeling software : only non-existing licenses with UC)
Travel (conferences to present findings, consultation with other researchers, site visit for experiments, etc.)
Field experiment data collection
Presentation materials (posters, copies, registration fees)
Studio equipment
Other: please specify

Please specify any and all items that would be useful to other students in the lab through this award
Statement of purpose not more than 3 pages*

Supported format: pdf
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Portfolios or multimedia files to support your statement of purpose. For Design, Art, Music, or Visual focused majors.

Supported formats: pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, csv, txt, rtf, html, zip, mp3, wma, mpg, flv, avi, jpg, jpeg, png, gif, mpeg4, mp4, mp3. Please reach out to GSG VP if you want to upload any other file format to help support your SoP.
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CV not more than 2 pages*

Supported format: pdf
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Unofficial UC Transcript*

Supported format: pdf
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Letter of Recommendation*

Supported format: pdf
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Department and GSA Information
To find/contact your Department head or Program director check out Graduate College Website.
Department Name*
Department Head/Graduate Director Name*
UC Email-ID of the Department Head/Graduate Director*
Eg: example@ucmail.uc.edu
To know more about your Member Group or Gradaute Student Association, please check our website for GSG member Group officers.
Applicant's GSG Affiliation *
Member Groups are also called Graduate Student Associations (GSA)

Applicant Signature
Signature*
By typing your name, I, the applicant of this GSG Research Fellowship Award, certify that all the information above and included with this application is correct to the best of my knowledge. I also acknowledge that Research Fellowship Awards are a once-per-degree award and that RF funds will remain available to me only until my date of graduation.
Date of Submission*

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GSG Research Fellowship Application