SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships — 1/31/2013 Mid-stage humanities and social science Ph.D. students: receive up to $5,000 to support your research and help you formulate an effective dissertation proposal.
Interested in being a White House Fellow? Apply by January 15. President Obama meets with White House Fellows in the Roosevelt Room in the West Wing near the Oval Office. One year can…
Ms. Cowan gets a Una Fellowship — and, for one brief evening, Una’s necklace Although from a small high school in Kentucky that was not academically oriented, Sarah Cowan applied to top colleges around the country, utilizing “a tenacity and hunger than overshadowed fear, uncertainty, and perhaps common sense.”
Switzer Environmental Fellowship — 1/10/2013 The Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation specifically seeks innovators and problem-solvers who have the ability, determination, and integrity to become environmental leaders in the 21st century.
Larry L. Hillblom Foundation postdoc — 1/14/2013 This fellowship grant supports, up to a maximum of $60,000 per year, postdoctoral research training to qualified applicants studying either diabetes or aging.
A quick guide to fellowships and grants Money doesn't grow on trees. But some of it is in fact available for picking, if you're willing to invest a bit of effort and persistence.
National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC) Fellowships — 11/30/2012 The NPSC seeks a broad applicant pool for its multi-year fellowships, with special emphasis on underrepresented minorities and women.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral/Dissertation/Postdoctoral Fellowship This is a three-year award for U.S. citizens or nationals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in…
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships –11/15/2013 These fellowships, for 12 months of full-time dissertation research and writing, are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or…
UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program — 11/1/2012 Since 1984, this program has provided research opportunity and career development for scholars whose work will enhance the diversity of the academic community at the University of California.
CSU Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program — 2/2013 The California State University provides loans to students pursuing doctoral degrees who thereafter would like to teach in the CSU, the largest higher education system in the United States.
It takes a partnership: alumni, professors, corporations say thank you to Berkeley How gratitude turns into fellowships and other opportunities for new generations of graduate students
International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) Program — 11/7/2012 The IDRF offers 9 to 12 months of support. Fellowship amounts vary depending on the research plan, with a per-fellowship average of $20,000. Eighty fellowships are awarded annually for empirical and site-specific research that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies.
Berkeley leads the way in NSF fellowships The National Science Foundation fellowship is a crown jewel of graduate student awards. And Berkeley students lead the nation in capturing these prestigious and highly competitive grants. Here are 6 of this year's recipients.
Inspired by the Intersection Between Science and Humanities Jessica Ling, Ph.D. candidate in English, was awarded the Yoshiko Uchida Endowed Scholarship, which assists Asian graduate students who want to become writers. With the help of her fellowship, Jessica is pursuing research on the nineteenth-century novel.
Important information for grad students receiving fall fellowships at UC Berkeley Technical things, but important: you need to be registered; when to expect stipend payments; setting up Electronic Funds Transfer; international students need to complete tax forms.
The assignment of a lifetime Peter Soler, a chemical engineering grad student, with the help of an NSF research fellowship, is helping build an artificial kidney that may be a game-changer for two million patients.
Berkeley doctoral candidates Mont Allen, Robert Harkins, Bruno Reinhardt, and Bharat Venkat win prestigious Newcombe Fellowships Out of a field of 550 applicants, 21 winners of the 2012 Newcombe Fellowship were just announced, and Berkeley graduate students won four, nearly a fifth of the total.
Cal grad student John Osborn and undergrad Reginald James win two of the first AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarships Of the half-dozen students selected to receive the new scholarships, two will use them at Berkeley, one pursuing a graduate degree, the other an undergraduate --- together comprising one-third of the first awards, if you're counting.