Funding Policies
Policies: Tuition Policy
JSMF supports STEM policy recommendations that the stipends for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees be provided, when possible, by institutional training grants or individual fellowships. In the view of JSMF, student tuition is an educational cost NOT a research cost and is an inappropriate budget item for a research grant. Budgets requesting stipend or salary support for trainees actively engaged in the research described in the application for JSMF research grants must provide an explanation for such requests in the budget justification component of the application. During review, the training track record of faculty involved in applications requesting trainee support will be used as an explicit criteria in evaluating the proposal.