Funding Opportunities Index

Funding Opportunities

For Undergraduate Students

W.Scott Chilton Undergraduate Research Award
NSF Synthetic Biology summer research experience for undergraduates program:
http://www.ncsu.edu/CIL/biotech/?p=reu&sub=the_program

For Graduate Students

NIH Biotechnology graduate fellowships:

http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/financial-support/mbtp/index.php

Department of Education GAANN graduate fellowships:

http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/financial-support/gaann.html

Photos by Robert Thornhill

Robert Thornhill, M.S.student is conducting a floristic inventory of wet pine savannas at a research site in Pender Count, NC. He is identifying and collecting vouchers of all the species found there. At the end of the project, he will create a guide to the flora of the site.

Carolina Grass of Parnassus

Carolina Grass of Parnassus
Parnassia caroliniana

The state-endangered Carolina Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia caroliniana) is a rare, but locally abundant, and beautiful component of wet pine savanas.

Snow in September

Sometimes referred to as "Snow in September," the dominance of the white-flowered Rush featherling (Pleea tenuifolia) in this and a handful of other wet pine savannas is still unexplained.