Support for graduate students in the Intelligent Systems Program is available through a number of sources:
Mellon Predoctoral Fellowships are offered by the University of Pittsburgh to students in many graduate programs. This award is very competitive and typically, students currently studying in the ISP are nominated to apply for Mellon Predoctoral Fellowships after their second year of graduate study. Awards are made in early March.
A limited number of Arts and Sciences Fellowships are offered by the program itself for the fall and spring semesters. Incoming students are automatically considered for the Arts and Science Fellowship. Two GSA Fellowships are available during the summer term. These are awarded competitively; decisions on such support for the fall term are made by a committee of program faculty, usually in February or early March. No special application is necessary for these awards.
A number of Graduate Research Awards are available through sponsored research projects administered by program faculty; award decisions in these cases are usually made by the principal investigator, in consultation with the program.
Applicants with the MD degree who are citizens or permanent residents of the U.S. are eligible for support through a training grant to the Center for Biomedical Informatics, and can find out how to apply at http://www.cbmi.upmc.edu/training_program/training.htm.
Many forms of external support are available to graduate students through the Fulbright Awards Program, the National Science Foundation, and other sources of support. If you think you might qualify for such an award it will be to your advantage to apply and we advise you to do it: not just for admission to the University of Pittsburgh, but to increase your flexibility in choosing a graduate school, and to obtain a form of recognition that will be a noteworthy addition to your career record.