National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP)
The NSF graduate reseach fellowship program is a program that offers a tuition waiver and a hefty stipend for three years of graduate study for outstanding graduate students in the sciences and engineering. Please visit the NSF fastlane website and click on "graduate research fellowship program" for more information.
I hope to offer detailed advice for all aspects of preparing for and applying to the fellowship program here, but for now I will leave you with PowerPoint slides of a talk (actually the handout to the talk) I gave at Michigan to interested psychology students. Click here to download the slides.
Here are also some very informative links, courtesy of Kristin Flegal:
Personal Statement Essay guide
Research Experience Essay guide
Proposed research Essay guide