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
- 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