IMPORTANT:
There are a number of incredible opportunities for activities
following graduation ranging from graduate
programs to
service programs.
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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Support for Domestic Graduate
Studies
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.
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.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: The US EPA supports a number of
undergraduate and graduate fellowship programs as outlined at this site.
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.
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.
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.
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 United States.
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)
and General Motors (GM) have partnered to provide 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.
Support for International Graduate
Studies
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.
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 Germany. Applicants must
have a well-defined study or research project that makes a stay in Germany
essential. Preference will be given to applicants who have been invited by a
faculty member at a German university to study or do research in a particular
university department. See Professor Denise DellaRosa for more information
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.
Service and Other Opportunities
ACE (Alliance for Catholic Education):
The Alliance for
Catholic Education (ACE) is a two-year service program offering college
graduates the opportunity to serve as full-time teachers in under-resourced
Catholic schools across the southern United States.
Teach for America: Teach for America recruits
outstanding recent college graduates from all backgrounds and career interests
to commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools. They
provide the training and ongoing support necessary to ensure success as
teachers in low-income communities.
Knowles Science
Teaching Foundation (KSTF) Physical Science and Mathematics Teaching Fellowships: For
individuals who have at least a bachelor’s degree in a physical science,
engineering or mathematics and now want to teach science or mathematics in U.S.
high schools.
Math for America
Fellowship Program: Focuses
on the shortage of adequately qualified mathematics teachers in our nation's
public high schools by training mathematically-talented individuals to become
high school math teachers and supporting them in the early years of their
careers.