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Grant Benefits Research Fellowships webpage at www.usief.org.in
These fellowships provide round-trip economy class for fellowship details and Application Instructions.
air travel from India to the U.S., a monthly stipend,
Accident and Sickness Program for Exchanges per Application Deadline: July 17, 2017
U.S. Government guidelines, a modest settling-in
allowance, and a professional allowance. Subject to Timeline and Placement Process
availability of funds, a dependent allowance and July 17, 2017
international travel may be provided for one Application due date for 2018-2019 awards
accompanying eligible dependent provided the
August-September 2017
dependent is with the grantee in the U.S. for at
Field-specific experts review applications to short-
least 80% of the grant period.
list candidates
Eligibility Requirements Mid-October 2017
In addition to the General Prerequisites (page 24): National interviews of short-listed candidates in
Delhi
l You must have a Ph.D. degree within the past
four years. You must have obtained your Late-October 2017
Ph.D. degree between July 15, 2013 and July USIEF notifies principal and alternate nominees
that they are recommended
16, 2017. You are required to upload your
Ph.D. degree certificate/provisional Ph.D. December 2017
certificate in your online application; USIEF forwards applications of recommended
candidates to the U.S. for J. William Fulbright
l You must be published in reputed journals
Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) approval and
and demonstrate evidence of superior
placement
academic and professional achievement.
Please upload a recent significant publication March-April 2018
(copy of paper/article) in your online USIEF notifies finalists
application; and May-June 2018

l If you are employed, please follow the Pre-Departure Orientation
instructions carefully regarding employer's August-September 2018
endorsement. If applicable, please obtain the Program begins
endorsement from the appropriate
d. Fulbright-Nehru Academic and
administrative authority on the FNPostdoc
Employer's Endorsement Form. The Professional Excellence Fellowships
employer must indicate that leave will be The Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional
granted for the fellowship period. You can
download the FNPostdoc Employer's
Endorsement Form from the USIEF website.
Note: In your application, you are required to
indicate the period in which you can complete
your proposed project in the United States.
Please determine your grant duration carefully.
Should you be selected for a grant, it will be
for the period you specified in your application.
The duration cannot be changed.

How to Apply
Applications must be submitted online. Please refer
to Application Procedure and Guidelines (page 24). Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence scholar Ashok Kumar
Pattanaik at the companion animal laboratory at the University of Illinois,
Please visit the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral
Urbana-Champaign, IL
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