Student Fellowships and Scholarships

Fellowship Info Sessions 3/30 and 3/31

Lisa Gates — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:18:11 +0000

I’m holding two information sessions on Tuesday 3/30 and Wednesday 3/31. Both take place in Bi Hall 104 and start at 7pm. Tuesday night is for current sophomores and first-year students and focuses on sophomore and junior year fellowship opportunities. Wednesday night is devoted to senior-year opportunities–but you don’t have to be a rising senior to attend. Planning and preparation are key elements to a successful application, so come inform yourself about the opportunities available to Middlebury students. You can find information about specific fellowships and eligibility criteria on our website: go/fellowships or go.middlebury.edu/fellowships .

New Gates-Cambridge Scholar–Sky Feuer!

Lisa Gates — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:43:46 +0000

As much as I tell students how useful it is just preparing fellowship applications and essays–and it does really help for those grad school essays–it’s just plain thrilling when a student wins a fellowship or scholarship. So congratulations to Sky Feuer, who was just selected as one of 29 new Gates-Cambridge scholars from the US. You can read about Sky and her plans at Cambridge on the Gates-Cambridge website.

Public Service Fellowship

Lisa Gates — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:21:31 +0000

Middlebury seniors and recent alumni encouraged to apply! From City Hall Fellows: “City Hall Fellows is a non-partisan nonprofit training the next generation of leaders for America’s cities. Our 12-month, paid, post-college Fellowship integrates hands-on experience working within the highest levels of local government with intensive training in how cities work. For our next class, we will be placing cohorts of Fellows in 3 cities:

§     Houston, Texas
§     San Francisco, California
§     Baton Rouge, Louisiana

The Fellowship is open to students of ALL majors. I would appreciate it if you would let your top graduating students and recent alums know about this opportunity.

A detailed overview of the Fellowship, as well as application materials and instructions, are on our website, www.cityhallfellows.org . Applications for our next Fellowship Class are due March 10, 2010. The Fellowship year begins August 2, 2010 and runs through July 29, 2011.

Our staff, Fellows and alumni will be visiting campuses around the country over the next two months. We also will be hosting several free, live webinars for students we are unable to meet in person. All of these are posted on our schedule of events . “

Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program

Lisa Gates — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:15:33 +0000

The Summer 2010 application deadline is February 15, 2010.
The Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program (FINIP), funded by the Freeman Foundation, aims to develop student leaders and strengthen the nonprofit sector in Indonesia. IIE will select and pair 10 Indonesian students pursuing U.S. degrees with 10 U.S. undergraduates and arrange internships for them to work together in an Indonesian nonprofit organization.

In addition to the practical internship experience, U.S. participants will be enrolled in an Indonesian language and culture course which will provide, two hours per day for four days each week, intensive language instruction (60 contact hours). It is expected that the American student’s home institution will award credit for successful completion of the language and culture program. Indonesian participants will complete an online course introducing them to NGOs, their purpose and their administration.

As part of the 9-week experience, from June 15 to August 17, 2010, the Freeman Interns will participate in a three-day orientation and a final capstone seminar in Jakarta, organized by IIE’s partner organization, the Indonesian International Education Foundation (IIEF). Internships and coursework will be arranged by IIEF in three cities: Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta. All program-related costs will be covered.

Upon returning to the U.S., students will be expected to share their experiences with peers on their home campuses and to explore ways to incorporate what they learned over the summer into their academic and professional careers.

For more information, click here.

El Pomar Fellowship Program in Leadership

Lisa Gates — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:56:15 +0000

Here’s an interesting post-grad fellowship opportunity that landed in my inbox. Only one caveat: you must have some connection to the fine state of Colorado! If so, read on: “The Fellowship program at El Pomar is a highly competitive, two-year leadership development program that develops today’s young professionals into tomorrow’s leaders. Fellows have the opportunity to pursue personal and professional growth through direct program and project management, community development, and grant-making. We are currently recruiting for our next class of Fellows, to begin in July of 2010.

We will be hosting a webinar on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.. To register, please send an email to fellowship@elpomar.org with “webinar” in the subject line.”

For more information, visit the website: http://www.elpomar.org

Sophomores and Juniors: Summer Internship Program in Indonesia

Lisa Gates — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:33:03 +0000

Sophomores and juniors, here is an exciting new summer internship program in the Indonesian non-profit sector. The Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program (FINIP), funded by the Freeman Foundation, aims to develop student leaders and strengthen the nonprofit sector in Indonesia. IIE will select and pair 10 Indonesian students pursuing U.S. degrees with 10 U.S. undergraduates and arrange internships for them to work together in an Indonesian nonprofit organization.

The 9-week experience, from June 15 to August 17, 2010, arranged by IIE’s partner organization, the Indonesian International Education Foundation (IIEF), will take place in three cities: Jakarta, Bandung and Yogyakarta. All program-related costs will be covered.

Interested American and Indonesian sophomores and juniors enrolled in U.S. institutions are encouraged to apply, using the online application at http://www.iie.org/programs/finip . The deadline for submission of completed applications is February 15, 2010.

More information can be found at the program website at http://www.iie.org/programs/finip .

Beinecke Fellowship

Lisa Gates — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:31:50 +0000

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

Lisa Gates — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:39:05 +0000

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 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:02 +0000

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

Lisa Gates — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:02:02 +0000

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