Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study
Prize Amount: Fellowship of $36,000, tuition and fees, fellow’s discretionary allowance
of $4,000, and advisor’s discretionary allowance of $3,000
For: student-faculty advisor pairs in biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant biology, evolutionary biology, biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology. Students should be in their second or third year of PhD studies who will advance to candidacy by September 1, 2023.
Currently accepting nominations, due Thursday, September 22, 2022
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit nominations on behalf of your Department or College for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s 2023 Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. These three-year fellowships will be awarded to advisor-student pairs, with each pair comprising an eligible graduate student engaged in her/his PhD dissertation research and the thesis advisor.
For the 2023 academic year, HHMI anticipates making 40-45 awards. Compensation for the 2023-2024 fellowship year is $53,000. This includes an annual fellow stipend of $36,000, an institution allowance (in lieu of tuition and fees) of $10,000, a fellow discretionary allowance of $4,000, and a diversity and inclusion allowance of $3,000, to be used by the thesis advisor to support local activities aimed at addressing challenges to diversity and inclusion at the graduate level. Additionally, up to $1,000 of discretionary allowance may be available to help the fellow overcome food or housing insecurity.
The goal of this graduate fellowship program is to increase the diversity among scientists who are prepared to assume leadership roles in science, particularly as college and university faculty. The program provides awards to pairs of students and their dissertation advisors who are selected for their scientific leadership and commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the sciences. Please review the Gilliam Program Announcement for more information about underrepresented groups in biomedical research.
The University of Utah may nominate a total of 2 advisor-student pairs. In addition, the University may nominate one or more EXPROP Alumni. EXROP alumni do not count against the total number of allowable nominations.
Documents:
- Solicitation and Nomination form for 2023 Fellowship Year (currently accepting nominations)
- Gilliam Program Announcement
- Characteristics of a Successful Application (From the 2019 Cycle)
Eligibility
Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study eligibility includes the following:
- Adviser-student pairs must be studying scientific problems in biomedical sciences, life sciences, and biological questions in related disciplines. This includes basic research on a variety of biological systems and at all scales including at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecological levels. This initiative does not support social science research.
- Prospective Fellows must be (i) U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, undocumented childhood arrivals, or undocumented individuals who have been granted temporary permission to stay in the US (DACA), and (ii) from populations excluded from and underrepresented in science because of ethnicity, race, or disability status, or alumni of the HHMI EXROP program, and (iii) be at the appropriate stage of their PhD training (see below). International students are not eligible.
- For the purpose of this initiative, we define excluded ethnic or racial groups to be persons who identify as Black or African American, Latino/a or Hispanic American, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, Alaska Native, and from groups indigenous to the Pacific Island territories of the United States. Persons with disabilities—defined as those with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity—are also significantly underrepresented in U.S. science. The disability must be officially recognized by the institution’s disability office and the student must be receiving services and/or accommodations from the institution for the disability. It is recognized that underrepresentation can vary from setting to setting. As such, individuals from racial or ethnic groups other than the groups listed above who can be convincingly demonstrated by the nominator to be historically marginalized or underrepresented at the graduate level may be considered.
- Nominations should be of students who (i) are in their second or third year of a PhD program, and/or (ii) have at least two full years of study remaining as of September 1, 2023.
- Students who are enrolled in or affiliated with a funded MD/PhD or other dual-degree
program are not eligible (e.g., MSTP or institutionally funded program).
With questions relating eligibility and nomination, please reach out to Matthew Plooster at matthew.plooster@utah.edu.
NOMINATION DETAILS
The University of Utah Graduate School is now accepting nominations from eligible programs for the 2023 Gilliam Fellowship for Advanced Study. HHMI recently published their program announcement that provides details about the program, including eligibility criteria, which is available at www.hhmi.org/gilliam. Nomination forms, due Thursday, September 22, 2022, to matthew.plooster@utah.edu.