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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Scholarship and Fellowship Education Grant
HR-FN-1009-NED01

Program Summary

The scholarship program provides funding to colleges and universities to award scholarships to students to pursue an education in nuclear science, engineering, and other disciplines that may be beneficial in developing and maintaining a nuclear workforce.  Funding under this program includes support for education in nuclear science, engineering, and related disciplines to develop a workforce capable of supporting the design, construction, operation, and regulation of nuclear facilities and the safe handling of nuclear materials. NRC awards grants directly to accredited U.S. institutions of higher education and does not award individual scholarships or fellowships.  Individual students cannot apply directly to NRC for scholarships or fellowships.  

Fellowship awards under this FOA are up to $100,000 per year for four (4) years, or $400,000 total costs (direct costs and facilities and administrative costs) for the project period and are not renewable.  An individual may not receive funding in excess of $50,000 per year. 

Scholarship awards under this FOA are up to $200,000 total costs (direct costs and facilities and administrative costs) per institution for a two (2) year project period may be requested.  No student may receive more than $10,000 per year or exceed $20,000 over a 2 year period.

UIC is restricted to only one application for a 2-year Scholarship Program and one application for a 4-year Fellowship Program.

Additional Information

Deadlines

Letter of Intent

OVCR may reserve submission slots for previously submitted but unfunded proposals that received highly competitive ratings from the external sponsor.    These will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Vice Chancellor.  For consideration, scanned copies of your complete reviews (not just summary) must be included with LOI.

Depending upon the number of LOIs submitted, OVCR might be required to facilitate an internal peer review process to select UIC’s submission(s) to this program.  White paper instructions will be posted if necessary.

eLOI Form & Instructions – Adobe Acrobat Requirements

1. Download the file directly to your computer or to a disk, right click on the link, then select "save link as" or "save target as" from the dropdown options.
2. Open eLOI.
3. Position the hand pointer inside a form field and click.
• To accept the field change and go to the next field, press Tab or use your mouse to click on the next form field.
• To accept the field change and go to the previous field, press Shift + Tab or use your mouse to click on the previous form field.
4. Complete the form fields.
5. After completing the form, click “Save” then click “Submit to RDS@uic.edu”.

Letter of Intent (LOI): eLOI Form (Fillable PDF*)

*Please note:

• Fields highlighted in red are required to successfully submit the form.
• Do not print then submit scanned version of e-LOI via email.

Please contact Tony Halford at ahalford@uic.edu or 6-7036 with any questions.

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