IMPORTANT:
There are a number of incredible opportunities for post-graduate
work that require action either before you
leave for the summer at the
end of your junior year or early in your
senior year.
The Following Are Links To A
Number of These Opportunities.
If you would like to add a comment to any
of the opportunities
below, please send an email to Dr. Silliman
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Opportunities That You MUST Work On
By The End Of The Junior Year
The following opportunities are
particularly appropriate for those wishing to link their STEM
undergraduate degree with experiences in other disciplines (peace studies,
development studies, political sciences, art, economics, and similar).
Rhodes Scholarship : Thirty-two Americans are among more than
90 scholars chosen each year to study at the University of Oxford based on four
criteria: scholastic attainment; athleticism; devotion to duty to others; and
moral force of character. Requires university endorsement.
Mitchell
Scholarship: Support 1 year of graduate study in any discipline
offered at an institution of higher learning in Ireland or Northern Ireland.
Scholars will have strong records of academic excellence, leaderships and
community service. Requires university endorsement.
Marshall Scholarship: Allow recipients to study for 2 years at any university in
the UK in any discipline. Selection is based on distinction of intellect and
character as well as a potential to make a significant contribution to
one’s own society.
EPA Marshall Scholarship Program: In recognition of the global nature of environmental
challenges, EPA has joined with the
Luce Scholars
Program: Eighteen young
Americans of outstanding promise are sent each year to the
Fulbright Study and Research Grants : The program funds three types of activities: research abroad; study in a
foreign academic institution; and teaching English in select countries.
Requires university endorsement.
Churchill Foundation Scholarship: This program
enables outstanding American students to do graduate work in engineering,
mathematics and the physical and natural sciences at Churchill College,
Cambridge University. Requires university endorsement.
Harry S. Truman Scholarships:
The Truman Scholarship is a $30,000
merit-based grant awarded to undergraduate students, who wish financial support
to attend graduate or professional school in preparation for careers in
government, the non-profit sector or elsewhere in public service.
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Other Opportunities That May Be Of
Interest And Require Action In Your Senior Year
Graduate Studies Focused Predominantly in
Opportunities
through the National Academies (Science and Engineering): View this site for a number
of valuable fellowship opportunities for graduate studies.
IGERT: National Science Foundation’s
interdisciplinary graduate programs.
NSF (National
Science Foundation) Graduate Research Fellowship: Excellent
fellowships, portable to your graduate program of choice, for research-based
study leading to a master’s or doctoral degree in science, technology,
engineering, and math (
NDSEG (National Defense Science and
Engineering) Graduate Fellowship: Extraordinary fellowships to
provide the US with talented, doctorally trained
American scientists and engineers who will lead state of the art research
projects in disciplines having the greatest payoff to national defense.
NASA Aeronautics
Scholarship Program:
Fellowships related to NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate (ARMD). This directorate focuses on fundamental research in
traditional aeronautical disciplines, as well as emerging fields with promising
application to aeronautics.
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency: The US EPA supports a
number of undergraduate and graduate fellowship programs as outlined at this
site.
Department of Energy Computational Science
Graduate Fellowship: For
graduating seniors planning full-time study toward a PhD in the physical,
engineering, computer, mathematical or life sciences.
NREIP is a ten week summer
research opportunity for undergraduate Juniors & Seniors, and Graduate
students, under the guidance of a mentor, at a participating Navy Laboratory.
The National Security Education Program
David L. Boren Scholarships: Boren Scholarships and
Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for
The Science, Mathematics And Research for
Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service Program has been established by the Department of Defense (DoD) to support undergraduate and graduate students
pursuing degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (
U.S. Department of
Homeland Security Scholarship and Fellowship Program: opportunity to participate in an educational
program intended to ensure a diverse and highly talented science and technology
human resource base to meet the mission, goals, and objectives of the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
Nuclear Energy
Institute: An excellent web site with
links to scholarships, fellowships, and internships in nuclear energy.
Oak Ridge
Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) Scholarships:
Oak Ridge
supports a number of research and scholarship programs. Information on a number of programs is
available at this site.
Jack Kent Cooke
Foundation Scholarships: are designed to encourage and support outstanding
students from 7th grade through graduate school who have a breadth of
interests, work hard, demonstrate a strong will to succeed, and have financial
need.
Soros Fellowship: Provides opportunities for continuing generations of
able and accomplished new Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen
fields. Supports thirty individuals a year for up to two years of graduate
study in any subject anywhere in the
Ford Foundation Diversity Predoctoral
Fellowship: Provides three years of support for individuals engaged in
graduate study leading to a PhD or ScD in order to increase the diversity of
the nation’s college and university faculties.
GEM Fellowship: Offers opportunities for underrepresented students to
obtain MS degrees in engineering and PhDs in engineering and the natural and
physical sciences through a program of paid summer internships and graduate
financial aid.
The SWE
Scholarship Program
provides financial assistance to women admitted to accredited baccalaureate or
graduate programs, in preparation for careers in engineering, engineering
technology and computer science.
The Hispanic
Scholarship Fund (HSF)
provides financial resources to assist
outstanding Latino students pursuing degrees in Engineering and Business. See
this link to find information on undergraduate and graduate opportunities.
The Hertz Foundation's Graduate Fellowship supports students of
the applied physical sciences who are citizens or permanent residents
of the United States of America, and who are willing to morally commit to make
their skills available to the United States in time of national emergency.
An
Opportunity Search Engine: This link provides a number of links to
research and funding opportunities.
International
Opportunities
Rotary
Ambassadorial Scholarship: Three types: Academic-Year for funding for one year of
study in another country; Multi-Year for funding two or three years of
degree-oriented study in another country; and Cultural for three or six months
of intensive language study and cultural immersion in another country.
German Chancellor
Scholarship Program
: Provides for a stay of one year in Germany for professional development,
study or research for students from any profession or field of study who show
outstanding potential for future leadership. Applicants are expected to have established
contact with a mentor in Germany before submitting an application.
DAAD (German
Academic Exchange Service) For study at universities in
American-Scandinavian
Foundation Fellowships: Allows
individuals to pursue research or study in any field in one or more
Scandinavian country. Applicants must have a well-defined research or study
project that makes a stay in Scandinavia essential.
The National
Security Education Program David L. Boren Scholarships: Boren Scholarships and
Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and
graduate students to add an important international and language component to
their educations.
National Institutes of
Health-University of Cambridge / Oxford Scholars in Health and Biomedical
Research: The NIH, and
Oxford and Cambridge Universities in Britain, have established a collaborative
graduate program in biomedical sciences. Students typically spend two years in
England at either school, pursuing tutorials and research on a collaborative
project with an NIH intramural scientist. They then typically spend about two
years in Bethesda, Maryland, continuing their thesis research project at the
NIH, with doctoral degrees awarded by Oxford or Cambridge upon completion.