Beinecke Fellowship

Lisa Gates / / Uncategorized

Now that the mad rush of fellowships in the fall has past, I want to throw the spotlight on the upcoming opportunities in December/January.  So let’s start with the Beinecke!

The Beinecke provides $34,000 in funding toward graduate study (MA and PhD programs) in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Who can apply? JUNIORS (that means you expect to receive your degree between December 2010 and August 2011) who are:

  • US Citizens
  • Have history of receiving need-based financial aid as undergraduates
  • Have record of academic achievement (3.7 or higher)

You may defer graduate study for one year following Middlebury graduation. Funding can be used to support graduate study at non-US institutions as well as US institutions.

How to apply? You must first be nominated by Middlebury.  To apply for nomination,  the following materials are due to me in Adirondack House 202 by noon on Monday, January 11, 2009:

  • A statement of 1,000 words or less describing your background, interests, plans for graduate study, and career aspirations.  Discuss experiences and ideas that have shaped these plans.
  • A current résumé.
  • A Banner Degree Progress Report
  • Optional:  an additional statement (a paragraph or two) concerning your financial situation and any significance it may have on your graduate-school plans.

    • You can find more information online at go/sfas and www.BeineckeScholarship.org .  If you’re interested, talk with me this semester!

    2010 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program

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    From the US Department of State: Applications for the 2010 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for overseas intensive summer language institutes in thirteen critical need foreign languages available soon. The on-line application for CLS Program awards will be available November 9, 2009, and the deadline to apply will be December 18, 2009.

    Critical Language Scholarships (CLS) provide group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences for seven to ten weeks. Students may apply for one language, and will be placed at institute sites based on language evaluations after selection. The 2010 CLS Program will include new programs in Indonesian and Japanese.

    Levels available for each language are as follows:
    *Arabic, Persian: Advanced beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
    *Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Turkish, or Urdu: Beginning, intermediate or advanced level;
    *Chinese, Japanese or Russian: Intermediate or advanced level.

    Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply.  While there is no service requirement attached to CLS Program awards, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

    For more information on the CLS Program, visit www.CLScholarship.org.

    Deadlines for Truman, St. Andrews Nomination

    Lisa Gates / / Uncategorized

    We’ve gotten through the Rhodes, Mitchell, Marshall, Fulbright so far…phew!  But the  I want to draw your attention to the Monday, November 2 (noon) deadline for applications for nomination for the Truman (juniors only) and St. Andrews (seniors only) Fellowships.  Check our website for more information about each fellowship and what materials we require for you to be considered for nomination.  Any questions, talk with me! (x3183, lgates@middlebury.edu)

    New Graduate Fellowship from Dept. of Energy

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    Department of Energy
    The Office of Science
    Graduate Fellowship Program
    http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html
    The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC) has established the DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) program to provide support for outstanding students to pursue graduate degrees and research in areas of physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational sciences and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science, and to encourage the development of the next generation scientific and technical talent in the U.S.
    Fellows will receive a $35,000 yearly stipend for living expenses, $10, 500 per year for tuition and fees and a $5,000 research stipend supplement for research materials and travel expenses.  Fellows will be required to attend the annual DOE SCGF Research Conference to be held each summer at a DOE national laboratory.  Travel expenses and accommodations to the Conference will be provided by the DOE SCGF program.
    THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS NOVEMBER 30, 2009.
    For more information about the program, eligibility, benefits and application visit http://www.scied.science.doe.gov/SCGF.html

    What do you a do on a Fulbright grant?

    Lisa Gates / / Uncategorized

    Check out Caitlyn Olson’s (’09)  chronicle of her Fulbright year in Morocco: http://hereacousthereacous.blogspot.com/

    From the blog:

    Ahlan wa Sahlan, Welcome

    Greetings all! It’s Caitlyn here, and, armed with not much more than that brand new liberal arts degree, beginning Arabic skills now two years rusty and a youthful zeal inclined to overlook any such limitations, I am currently spending fifteen months living and studying in Morocco. The initial six will be in the imperial city of Fez, where I’ll be burnishing my linguistic abilities at the Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF). Then, in February, I’ll move locations (most likely to Rabat or Tetouan) and shift my focus to an independent research project having generally to do with relations between Spain and Morocco during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s (see the first posting for details). I hope to use this blog to chronicle not only these academic endeavors but also — primarily — the ins and outs of daily life in Morocco.