GSMI Alumni program
(for first-year graduate students)

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Cientifico Latino, Inc.’s GSMI Alumni program (formerly known as the Graduate School Engagement and Community program or GSEC) is a 10-month mentorship program that seeks to support graduate students as they navigate their first year in graduate school.

This program provides GSMI alumni with access to small mentorship groups, professional development workshops, scientific training and community events. We have served 296 first-year graduate students in our program between 2021-2024.

For any questions, please contact: gsmi@cientificolatino.com

Thank you to our partners!

This work is supported by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation and Simons Foundation.

GSMI 2025 Alumni scholarship

In 2024, we launched a graduate school scholarship fund to cover 1st year graduate school expenses for thirty-four GSEC 2024 scholars and provided $42,500 in scholarship funds (thank you to the the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for their support).

In 2025, we will be providing twenty-two scholarships to our GSMI 2025 alumni scholars, part of our first-year graduate student mentorship program (thank you to the Richard Lounsbery Foundation for their support).

Purpose: To provide twenty-two GSMI 2025 alumni scholars with a scholarship of $1000 to can cover 1st year graduate school expenses. The funds can be used for general educational expenses, such as tuition, application fees , preparational material/academic courses, academic conference registration, and school supplies i.e. laptops.

Only twenty-two GSMI 2025 alumni scholars will be selected for this scholarship, the recipients will be selected based on academic merit, need-based, and contributions to the scientific community. Please note, we define academic merit broadly, this can include from publishing a research paper, presenting a poster at a research conference, working on scientific outreach work or pursuing college/graduate studies while navigating unique circumstances.

Eligibility: You must be enrolled in graduate school in a Master's or PhD program this Fall 2025 and must be a GSMI 2025 alumni scholar. This scholarship application is open to all GSMI 2025 alumni scholars, however only twenty-two will be selected this year.

Timeline: TBA. We will interview twenty-two candidates mid-October and publish our list of twenty-two GSMI alumni scholarship recipients at the end of October. We expect awards to be distributed in November.

The application survey will only be made available to GSMI 2025 alumni scholars. If you have any questions, please email contact@cientificolatino.com.