Internal Funding Opportunities
The Graduate College administers several competitive internal funding programs to support research, foster partnerships with industry, and coordinate collaborations among IIT faculty for research efforts. Please feel free to contact us at 312.567.7135.
Educational and Research Initiative Fund (ERIF)
2010 DEADLINE: Friday, November 20, 2009
The objective of the ERIF program is to provide seed funding to initiate innovative multi-investigator, multidisciplinary research and education programs that will use the results obtained during the project period for developing proposals seeking external funding. Proposals on new research and education concepts that are multidisciplinary in scope are solicited.
2009 ERIF Grant Recipients:
- Sandra Bishnoi (BCPS)
- Georgia Papavasilliou (BME)
- Jia Wang (ECE)
- Imam Samil Yetik (ECE)
Starr Research Fellowship and the Fieldhouse Research Fellowship
2010 DEADLINE: Friday, November 20, 2009
Merit based research scholarships made possible through a generous donation from the Starr Foundation and IIT's capital campaign match to honor Mr. Irv Fieldhouse.
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2009 Recipients:
- Starr Fellowship: Wei Tang (CS)
- Fieldhouse Fellowship: Xiaohua Tian (ECE)
IIT Research Scholarship Program
2010 - 2011 DEADLINE: TBD Early 2010
A limited number of merit-based scholarships are available to students who are starting their Ph.D. programs at IIT in the Fall 2009 semester. U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required.
Students may not apply for this scholarship directly, They must be nominated by a tenured or tenure track IIT Faculty member in one of the following departments: AM, BCPS, BME, CAEE, CHBE, CS, ECE, or MMAE.
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2009 - 2010 Research Scholarships Recipients:
- Emily Draeger (BCPS)
- Wesley Kerstens (MMAE)
- Marcella Schmidt (BME)