Fulbright Internal Deadline Friday, 9/26 at noon!

Fulbright application are due this Friday, Sept. 26 at noon EST. Applications should include all required materials and polished statements. If you have an issue with a letter (affiliation/recommendation), please be in touch with Lisa Gates–but still submit your application by the deadline. To submit, you will need to click the “submit” button. When you do that, you have submitted the application to Middlebury (but not to Fulbright). Middlebury will submit your final application to Fulbright by the Oct 14 deadline.

On Sept. 26, we will be in touch with all applicants who submitted an application by the deadline with instructions about signing up for a campus interview on Oct 2,3 or 6. Interviews are brief (about 10 min) and can be conducted via Skype for those candidates not on campus.

If you have questions, let us know at fellowships@middlebury.edu.

Watson Deadline on Monday, 9/22 at noon!

Yes, the deadline for applying for nomination for the Watson is almost upon us! Please note, late applications will not be accepted. So if you would like to be considered for nomination, email the following materials as a single PDF file to fellowships@middlebury.edu by the deadline:

  • Watson Cover Page
  • A proposal explaining what you want to do, where you want to do it, the questions you want to pursue, your relevant background/experience, the source of your interest in the topic. Please consult the Watson Foundation Web site: this statement should be a blend of the Personal Statement and the Project Proposal. Draft proposals must be no more than 5 pages long, double-spaced, double-sided, in 12-point font. Please number pages.
  • Résumé.
  • Academic transcript, printed from Banner Web (use the Degree Progress format).
  • Fellowships Waiver and Permission Form

And where can you find the forms? At go/fellowships ; look in the “forms” section. Questions? Email fellowships@middlebury.edu .

Today at 4:30 pm: Watson Fellow Barbara Ofosu-Somuah ’13

BarbaraOfosuSomuahBarbara Ofosu-Somuah ’13 spent last year as a Watson Fellow. She will speak about her experience at 4:30 pm in Hillcrest 103 and then be available for casual conversation this evening at 8 pm in the CTLR Lounge in Davis Library. Barabara’s project was in Suriname, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania and the United Kingdom. Through her project “The Choreography of Black Hair: A Framework for Cultural Inquiry,” she explored conceptions of Black female beauty in African and African diaspora communities.

Need a transcript for a Fulbright Application?

If you’re applying for a Fulbright (deadline Friday, Sept. 26 at noon) and you want us to order your transcript for you, start your application in Embark NOW if you haven’t done so! We will use this list of registered applicants to place an order for Middlebury transcripts (you’ll have to obtain others yourselves) tomorrow, Sept 16. But we need time to get this done and get you a pdf copy–so please register now if you haven’t done so!