General Advice for Grad School Apps
General Advice
- On Not Suffering (Much) in Graduate School: Part 1 | Part 2
- MCSci Tips on Getting Into Grad School
- Academic Secret Menu, updated July 15, 2020
- Resources for Undegraduate Students by Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega
- notes_for_students by Jan Stanstrup
- A Field Guide to Grad School by Jessica McCrory Calarco
- Academia from the perspective of a first-generation student (Twitter thread)
- A UC Davis alumnus asked about grad school (Twitter Thread) from July 2018
- Evolution and Ecology Graduate School Preview
- “A guide for applying to graduate school in Biology”
- Cientifico Latino Graduate Student Mentorship Initiative (GSMI)
Developing Research Skills (Laboratory / Fieldwork)
Contacting Potential Advisors
Letters of Recommendation
Advice for the Application Process
- Twitter Thread from August 2019
- Inclusive Graduate Education Network
GRE Advice
Funding Opportunities for Graduate School
- Resources for POC in STEAM
- Departments that have a fully-funded Masters programs that include Ecology, Evolution, or Organsimal Biology
- AGU Bridge Program
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Proposal (NSF GRFP)
- Advice from a GRFP writing workshop
- Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program (DoD NDSEG)
- NOAA Dr. Nancy Foster Scholarship Program
- NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowships
- Ford Family Foundation Scholarship
- P. D. Soros Fellowship For New Americans
- Ben Barres Fellowship for professional development of trans, intersex, and non-binary graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in STEM
- National Geographic Early Career Grant
- Women Divers Hall of Fame
- Other Funding Opportunities Are Listed Here (Updated July 2020)
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