APAGS/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship
The intent of the Junior Scientist Fellowship is twofold:
- To recognize outstanding research-oriented students who are entering their first year (or first semester of second year) of graduate study and to help them begin successful research programs/projects. Students in research-based psychology and neuroscience graduate programs are eligible to apply. (see eligibility section for further information.)
- To provide written feedback to applicants. Many students apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (eligibility requirements for the NSF fellowship) without previous experience applying for a research fellowship. It is our intent to provide feedback to strengthen their NSF graduate fellowship application.
Duration
1 year
Funding
$1000
Funds for this $1,000 fellowship must be used to support direct research costs. These funds can be used to pay participants, purchase essential equipment or software, acquire books or instruction manuals critical to one’s line of research, pay fees to publish at open-access journals, or for other direct research costs. The funds cannot be used for indirect costs such as travel, personal computers, or class textbooks. The funds can be used in a student’s first year (or second year, if submitting in the summer following one’s first year) of graduate school for projects other than the one discussed in the graduate research plan statement for this application.
Eligibility
- Be a student entering their first or second year at a research-based psychology or neuroscience graduate program. This means the student has not completed more than 1 academic year in a graduate degree-granting program, unless returning to graduate study after an interruption of 2 or more consecutive years immediately preceding the application deadline.
- Be both a current member of APA (as a student affiliate or other category) and a member of Psi Chi.
- Students entering their first year of graduate school may have joined Psi Chi as an undergraduate.
- Students entering their second year of graduate school may have joined Psi Chi as undergraduates or during their second semester of graduate school.
- Note: Membership in Psi Chi is lifelong, which means that graduate students do not currently need to be at a university that has a Psi Chi chapter if they were previously inducted as an undergraduate.
- Have never earned a master’s, doctoral, or professional degree in any field
- Have never been awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
- Have never been an APAGS committee/subcommittee member, subcommittee chair or task force chair
- Have never reviewed for the JSF (e.g., as an ad-hoc reviewer)
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- Application