SUNY GREAT Award

SUNY GREAT (Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent) Award program provides $7,500 in flexible funding to incentivize SUNY students (both graduate and undergraduate) to submit competitive applications for prestigious, highly competitive graduate fellowships and enroll in SUNY's graduate programs.

SUNY GREAT was created to incentivize stronger participation by SUNY students in NSF’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), the nation’s largest and oldest STEM fellowship competition. Awards are made not only to those who win GRFP fellowships, but also to those who receive GRFP Honorable Mention. The fellowship programs eligible for this award include NSF GRFP, NDSEG (Defense), NASA, NIH NRSA (F30 and F31), DoE CSGF (Energy), and the Canadian fellowships (SSHRC and NSERC), which are similar to GRFP awards but are usable at U.S. institutions.

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Applicants must:

• apply to the NSF GRFP or another stipend-providing graduate fellowship program (including: NDSEG, NASA, NIH or DoE)
• win recognition in one of these competitions 
  • either in the form of a stipend-bearing fellowship award or an NSF Honorable Mention. 
• enroll in (or remain enrolled in) and make satisfactory progress in a qualifying SUNY graduate program.

Students need not apply for SUNY GREAT; the award will be made based on public announcements by the Federal agencies. Students will be informed at the end of the calendar year in which they receive Federal recognition that they are eligible for SUNY GREAT.