• Fellows are supported for up to three years of dissertation research, typically in years
  3–5 of PhD study.
• For the 2023 fellowship cohort the award amount is $53,000 per year. This includes an annual fellow stipend of $36,000, an institution allowance (in lieu of tuition and fees) of $10,000, a fellow’s discretionary allowance of $4,000, and an adviser allowance of $3,000 to support diversity and inclusion efforts at the graduate level.

The University of Michigan is one of the institutions HHMI has selected for the Gilliam competition and we are able to nominate 5 student-advisor pairs. This fellowship is designed to support the career advancement of students in their 2nd or 3rd year of study who are (i) U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, undocumented childhood arrivals, or undocumented individuals who have been granted temporary permission to stay in the US (DACA), and (ii) from populations excluded from and underrepresented in science because of ethnicity, race, or disability status, or Alumni of the HHMI EXROP program, and (iii) at the appropriate stage of their PhD training. This form will be used to determine the nominees that the University puts forth for the competition. If there are five applications submitted (and all pairs are eligible), then all five will be put forth as nominees. If there are more than five applications, then a committee of faculty and Rackham staff will select the nominees through a holistic assessment.