The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is a merit-based graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants who are 30 or younger as of the application deadline, and who are in the first two years of their graduate program or are applying to graduate school. Every year the program selects 30 fellows, each of whom receives up to $90,000 over one to two years for full-time graduate study in any discipline or profession at a US graduate institution.
The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection awards fellowships to Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian scholars on the basis of demonstrated scholarly ability and preparation of the candidate, including knowledge of requisite languages, interest and value of the study or project, and the project's relevance to the resources of Dumbarton Oaks. Junior Fellowships are available for degree candidates who have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a PhD or appropriate final degree; Fellowships are available for scholars who hold a doctoral or appropriate final degree; and Summer Fellowships are available for scholars at any level beyond the first year of graduate study.
The Arts Institute at UW-Madison offers two, $1,500 awards for which graduate students are eligible: the David and Edith Sinaiko Frank Graduate Fellowship for a Woman in the Arts as well as the Lyman S.V. Judson and Ellen Mackechnie Judson Student Award in the Creative Arts. For more information on the application process, attend the Brownbag Information Session: Arts Institute Student Awards in Performing and Visual Arts on Friday, October 14, from 12:00-1:30pm in the Virginia Harrison Parlor, Lathrop Hall.
The National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan welcomes senior faculty members to nominate candidates who demonstrate outstanding scholarly promise and commitment to diversity to be a Postdoctoral Fellow. Applications are welcomed from scholars with interest in demography and culture, democracy and community, or discourse.
Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation. Through its Fellowship Programs, the Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.
The Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program supports independent research and study related to Smithsonian collections, experts, or facilities with at least one Smithsonian advisor. It offers (1) Graduate Student Fellowships for graduate students who have not yet been advanced to candidacy in their doctoral program; (2) Predoctoral Student Fellowships for PhD candidates or equivalent; and (3) Postdoctoral Researcher Fellowships for those who will have completed their doctorate degree by the time the fellowship begins.
The Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Smithsonian Institution invite fellowship applications for one-year fellowships to support research in residence at Smithsonian Institution facilities. All fields of study that are actively pursued by the museums and research organizations of the Smithsonian Institution are eligible. Students must have completed all coursework for their programs, and must have been admitted into doctoral candidacy and satisfied all requirements except completion of the dissertation in order to qualify.
The Office of the Provost at UW-Madison is soliciting proposals from faculty, staff, and students for the 2017 Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment competition. This endowment helps foster the Wisconsin Idea, the philosophy that the knowledge, ideas and solutions generated at the University benefit the people of Wisconsin, our nation and the world. Proposals are encouraged for new outreach and public engagement activities that partner with community and off-campus organizations that extend and apply our research, education and clinical knowledge to help solve problems or take advantage of opportunities. This year, the awards are anticipated to total approximately $700,000.
The National Physical Science Consortium's goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in the physical sciences and related engineering fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool. The NPSC Program provides a two-phase, six-year fellowship.
