{"id":21655,"date":"2024-05-08T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medschool.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/?p=21655"},"modified":"2024-05-08T21:16:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T02:16:25","slug":"department-of-defense-dod-national-defense-science-and-engineering-graduate-ndseg-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/2024\/05\/08\/department-of-defense-dod-national-defense-science-and-engineering-graduate-ndseg-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Defense (DoD) &#8211; National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Deadline: <\/strong>November 3, 2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ndseg.sysplus.com\/NDSEG\/Applicants\/How-to-Apply\">ndseg.sysplus.com\/NDSEG\/Applicants\/How-to-Apply<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense (DoD) offers the NDSEG fellowship\u00a0as a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance.\u00a0This\u00a0is a highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to\u00a0students who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one or more of eighteen\u00a0supported disciplines. Applicants must propose a DoD agency to sponsor their project. Research proposals must also respond to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ndseg.org\/about-baas\">specific BAA<\/a>\u00a0published by one such agency. Broad Agency Announcements (BAAs) are used by government agencies to solicit proposals focused on advancing basic science rather than a specific technology or product. For the purposes of applying for the NDSEG Fellowship, students should carefully review the research interests described in the active BAAs.\u00a0The Fellowship offers support for three\u00a0years,\u00a0and recipients\u00a0do<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>not incur any military or other service obligations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supported Disciplines:<\/strong><br \/>\nNDSEG fellowships are awarded to applicants pursuing a doctoral degree in, or closely related to, an area of DoD interest within one of the following supported disciplines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning<\/li>\n<li>Astrodynamics<\/li>\n<li>Biomedical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Biosciences (includes toxicology)<\/li>\n<li>Biotechnology<\/li>\n<li>Chemical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Chemistry<\/li>\n<li>Civil Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Cognitive, Neural, and Behavioral Sciences\u00a0(Note: PsyD programs are not eligible)<\/li>\n<li>Computer and Computational Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Cyber Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Electrical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Materials Science and Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics<\/li>\n<li>Mechanical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (includes undersea systems)<\/li>\n<li>Oceanography (includes ocean acoustics, remote sensing, and marine meteorology)<\/li>\n<li>Physics (including optics)<\/li>\n<li>Quantum Science<\/li>\n<li>Space Physics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Eligibility:<\/strong><br \/>\nApplicants must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be a US\u00a0citizen or national at the time of receiving the award. Permanent residents are not eligible.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Have received or will receive a bachelor&#8217;s\u00a0degree in the year of their fellowship application, are within the first two years of a traditional graduate degree program, or are within the first two years of a PhD program\u00a0in science or engineering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Award amount:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$43,200 annual stipend.<\/li>\n<li>$5,000 travel budget.<\/li>\n<li>Full tuition and required fees.<\/li>\n<li>Medical insurance coverage up to $1,600 per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>If this information is out of date, please email <a href=\"mailto:bret.career.development@vanderbilt.edu\">bret.career.development@vanderbilt.edu<\/a> to let us know.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadline: November 3, 2024 URL:\u00a0ndseg.sysplus.com\/NDSEG\/Applicants\/How-to-Apply Description: The Department of Defense (DoD) offers the NDSEG fellowship\u00a0as a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance.\u00a0This\u00a0is a highly competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to\u00a0students who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one or more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":21615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[230],"class_list":["post-21655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","tag-predoctoral-funding-opportunity"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-main\/medschool-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/05\/Funding-Opportunity-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21657,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21655\/revisions\/21657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medschool.vanderbilt.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}