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Upcoming Fellowship Deadlines: UK, Ireland, Fulbright, Watson

Lisa Gates / / Fellowships

Reminders: if you intend to apply for nomination for the Churchill, Marshall, Mitchell, Rhodes or St. Andrews, you must do so by April 7. See go.middlebury.edu/british for instructions. You must apply by this deadline to be eligible for nomination.

Those interested in the Watson and Fulbright grants should submit a preliminary application by April 15. See go.middlebury.edu/watson and go.middlebury.edu/fulbright for more information. Recent alumni interested in the Fulbright are also strongly encouraged to apply through Middlebury. Internal deadlines for these process will be set later (late summer/early fall).

Questions? Contact fellowships@middebury.edu .

 

 

 

Info Sessions Coming Soon for Watson, Fulbright, British and Schwarzman Scholarships

Lisa Gates / / Fellowships, Graduate School Funding, UK

The fellowships office will host information sessions in the spring semester for students interested in learning more and applying to the Watson, Fulbright, British, and Schwarzman Scholarships. Look here for dates and times shortly. A few notes:

  1. Students interested in applying for Rhodes, Marshall, Churchill or Mitchell Scholarship nomination MUST submit an internal application by April 7. See our website  for more info.
  2. Students interested in applying for the Fulbright and Watson fellowships are STRONGLY encouraged to submit a preliminary application for these by April 15. This does not commit you to applying, but will help you get started in a timely way.

Students are not eligible to apply in the fall 2018 application cycle are still encouraged to attend the info sessions and learn more!

Newhouse Graduate Newspaper Fellowship for Minorities Application Deadline 1/15/17

Lisa Gates / / Fellowships, Graduate School Funding

The Newhouse Graduate Newspaper Fellowship for Minorities is an 18-month program that provides generous awards to two students in the Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism program each year. Fellows receive full-tuition benefits, a monthly stipend and on-the-job training during internships with Syracuse Media Group.

Candidates must:

  • Be a U.S. citizen and member of an underrepresented minority group: African American, Asian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino or Native American
  • Have an undergraduate grade point average of B (3.0 on a 4.0 scale)
  • Demonstrate a record of academic engagement and an interest in storytelling

To apply:  Complete an application for the Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism program by January 15. Indicate your ethnicity and interest in the fellowship on your application. Six finalists will be brought to Syracuse for personal interviews in early March.

http://newhouse.syr.edu/minority-fellowship

Reminder–Pickering Fellowship Deadline January 13, 2017!

Lisa Gates / / Fellowships, Graduate School Funding

The application deadline for the 2017 Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship is just over a month away!

In order to be considered for the Pickering Fellowship, students must submit their application no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on January 13, 2017. All application components (including letters of recommendation) must be received by this deadline. For more information on application requirements, please visit the Pickering Fellowship page.

Naina Qayyam ’15 Middlebury’s First Schwarzman Scholar! #SchwarzmanScholars

Lisa Gates / / Fellowships, Graduate School Funding

Naina Qayyam ’15 was recently named one of 129 new Schwarzman Scholars! The second class of Schwarzman Scholars is composed of students from 30 countries and 75 universities with 45% from the United States, 20% from China, and 35% from the rest of the world. Schwarzman Scholars is quickly becoming the premier training ground for future leaders, educating and preparing the world’s most exceptional men and women to confront the most difficult challenges of the coming century and develop an understanding of China necessary to lead in the future. This fully-funded Master’s degree program, founded by Blackstone Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder Stephen A. Schwarzman, is housed at Tsinghua University in Beijing, one of China’s premier institutions. To learn more about Schwarzman Scholars, see www.schwarzmanscholars.org . Congratulations, Naina!