NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP ORIENTATION March 28, 2014, General Academic Building 104, 2:00-3:00 p.m. From: James Duban Director, Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships Undergraduates and graduate students are invited to a workshop to learn about a wide range of nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships that will be available during the 2014-15 academic year. You should, however, begin preparing this spring and summer and into the fall of 2014. The office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships sponsors this spring meeting to locate likely applicants and to encourage students to begin drafting application essays well before summer and fall deadlines. Applying for a national scholarship is a no-lose endeavor, for the process helps undergraduates articulate their academic goals, often in relation to graduate-level options and career trajectories. Graduate students, in turn, frequently use scholarship application essays to construct dissertation proposals. Indeed, graduate students often find themselves months ahead in the dissertation process because of the writing they undertake for nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships. Serious contenders should begin researching and drafting their applications this spring and during the summer. The Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships will provide helpful feedback to students applying for any externally funded scholarship, with the exception of the Rhodes Scholarship (see below). Successful applicants have taken as many as six-to-eight months to research and compose scholarship essays. That is why I am sponsoring this get-together in the spring of 2014 rather than in the fall of 2014. By the fall, when many scholarships foundations are officially announcing the new rounds of competition, its often too late to research and craft compelling applications. What follows are just a few of the scholarships and fellowships well review at the meeting. There are thousands more available through Internet search engines, and, with the help of Librarian Jo Monahan, well review ways of conducting those comprehensive searches. RHODES/MARSHALL/FULBRIGHT/ MITCHELL scholarships: these take students abroad either for their next degree or for a year of cultural enrichment and research. As of spring 2014 applicants for the Rhodes Scholarship may receive no editorial assistance at any stage of the process; nor may they incorporate sentences or paragraphs from other scholarship applications into their Rhodes essay. ROTARY Global Grant SCHOLARSHIPS ($30,000) fund a year of study abroad if you will be a graduating senior next year or if you are a graduate student who needs to conduct research abroad. Your field of interest must correspond to one of the following: (1) Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution; (2) Disease Prevention and Treatment; (3) Water and Sanitation; (4) Maternal and Child Health; (5) Basic Education and Literacy (including music literacy); (6) Economic and Community Development. You must apply, independently, to a university abroad and be prepared to have your comprehensive Rotary application finished and submitted by October 1. TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIPS ($27,000) are for college juniors interested in public service and public policy. To be eligible next fall, you must plan to graduate between December 2015 and August 2016. JAMES MADISON FELLOWSHIPS ($24,000) for graduating seniors (2014-15) who wish to earn a masters degree in history or political science, and then teach middle school or high school. GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIPS ($15,000) for sophomores and juniors in math/science. A GPA of 3.86-4.0 is usually necessary to receive UNT endorsement, as is a student’s ability to demonstrate that he or she has had 1.5-2 years of contiguous research and has contributed something significant to a professor’s research team. HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND AWARDS (for undergrads and grads). SCHOLARSHIPS FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. TILLMAN MILITARY VETERAN’S SCHOLARSHIP. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR ASIAN-AMERICANS. UDALL SCHOLARSHIPS ($5000) for sophomores or juniors concentrating in environmentalism or environmental policy. NSF GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS: graduate-school fellowships for 2015-16 graduating seniors or for first-year graduate students. DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIPS THROUGH VARIOUS FOUNDATIONS. NIH SCHOLARSHIPS AND INTERNSHIPS for undergraduates and graduate students. NSF RESEARCH EXPERIENCE for Undergraduates. Benjamin Gilman Scholarships (through UNT Study Abroad) Smithsonian Internships in the Visual Arts JACK KENT COOKE GRADUATE ARTS FELLOWSHIP in the performing or visual arts, or in creative writing. ELIE WIESEL ESSAY CONTEST IN ETHICS The campus deadline for submitting Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell Scholarship applications, at Sage 228, is August 6. Goldwater applications are due by October 8; Truman applications are due at Sage Hall 228 by November 15. Udall applications are due by January 18. Cooke applications are due in two separate installments—the first online, as specified by the Cooke Foundation; the second, in hard copy, to Sage 228, by January 18 (subject to change). To earn UNT nomination, you must submit hard copy of all of these applications to Sage 228 by the specified UNT deadline, even if there’s an electronic upload (with the exception of Part I of the Cooke, which is entirely an upload). Students will otherwise disqualify themselves from the internal UNT nominating process, even if they have completed an on-line submission. Students in the College of Music: The Marshall Scholarship is tenable at all of the worlds great music conservatories, including the Royal Colleges of Music. I hope to meet you at the orientation. Sincerely, James Duban Director Office for Nationally Competitive Scholarships [email protected]
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