Sample Proposals

Sample Proposals

The Office of External Fellowships maintains a collection of successful proposals for external grants and fellowships, and we make them available to University of Illinois students by appointment only.  To request an appointment, email us at ExtFellowships@illinois.edu.  In your email, give your name, department, the specific fellowship(s) for which you seek samples, and a one-sentence description of your proposed research.     

We have sample proposals for the following awards:

  • American Association of University Women

  • American Council of Learned Societies

  • Airport Cooperative Research Program

  • American Educational Research Association

  • American Heart Association

  • American Psychological Association

  • American Research Association in Egypt

  • American Sociological Association

  • Blue Waters

  • Boren

  • Borlaug   

  • Chateaubriand

  • Critical Language Scholarship

  • Cohen-Tucker

  • Croucher

  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

  • Department of Agriculture (AFRI ELI)

  • Department of Defense - SMART

  • Department of Energy

  • Doris Duke

  • Eisenhower

  • Environmental Protection Agency (STAR)

  • Ford

  • Fulbright

  • Fulbright-Hays

  • Google

  • Horowitz

  • Intel

  • National Aeronautics & Space Administration

  • National Defense Science and Engineering Grant (NDSEG)

  • National Institutes of Health (F30, F31, F32)

  • National Physical Science Consortium

  • National Science Foundation (DDRIG, EAPSI, GRF, GROW, & postdocs)

  • Ornithologists’ Union

  • Philanthropic Educational Organization

  • Qualcomm

  • Renaissance Society of America

  • Smithsonian

  • Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada

  • Social Science Research Council

  • Spencer

  • Wenner-Gren