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Sample Fellowship Proposals

Sample Proposals

The Office of External Fellowships maintains a collection of successful proposals for external grants and fellowships, and we make them available to University of Illinois students by appointment only.  To request an appointment, email us at ExtFellowships@illinois.edu.  In your email, give your name, department, the specific fellowship(s) for which you seek samples, and a one-sentence description of your proposed research.     

We have sample proposals for the following awards:

  • American Association of University Women
  • American Council of Learned Societies
  • Airport Cooperative Research Program
  • American Educational Research Association
  • American Heart Association
  • American Psychological Association
  • American Research Association in Egypt
  • American Sociological Association
  • Blue Waters
  • Boren
  • Borlaug   
  • Chateaubriand
  • Critical Language Scholarship
  • Cohen-Tucker
  • Croucher
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
  • Department of Agriculture (AFRI ELI)
  • Department of Defense - SMART
  • Department of Energy
  • Doris Duke
  • Eisenhower
  • Environmental Protection Agency (STAR)
  • Ford
  • Fulbright
  • Fulbright-Hays
  • Google
  • Horowitz
  • Intel
  • National Aeronautics & Space Administration
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Grant (NDSEG)
  • National Institutes of Health (F30, F31, F32)
  • National Physical Science Consortium
  • National Science Foundation (DDRIG, EAPSI, GRF, GROW, & postdocs)
  • Ornithologists’ Union
  • Philanthropic Educational Organization
  • Qualcomm
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • Smithsonian
  • Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Social Science Research Council
  • Spencer
  • Wenner-Gren