With final exams, papers, and projects looming, it’s understandable that many students have tunnel vision at this time of the year. Spring also brings announcements of results from national student fellowships competitions such as Fulbright, Gates Cambridge, NSF, and Goldwater. And it is also the period when the Fellowships Office undertakes various outreach and promotional efforts to encourage academically outstanding students to look ahead to next year’s national award competitions. Here are twelve different examples of how UR students and recent graduates have benefitted from nationally competitive merit-based fellowships:
• spent a summer in intensive language study in Indonesia, Turkey, and Russia while living with a host family (Critical Language Scholarship);
• pursued peace and conflict studies in Northern Ireland and studied archaeology in England (Fulbright UK Summer Institutes Scholarship);
• received undergraduate scholarships for STEM students committed to research and pursuit of advanced degrees (Goldwater Scholarship);
• participated in summer academic and career development programs in public policy and international affairs at Princeton and Carnegie Mellon (Public Policy & International Affairs Fellowship);
• conducted summer science and engineering research in top academic labs across Germany (DAAD-RISE Scholarship);
• pursued career-related full-time graduate study and research projects in the UK, Germany, Japan, Ghana, the Dominican Republic, India, and Bangladesh (Fulbright U.S. Student Grant);
• taught English conversation and U.S. culture in educational institutions in places as diverse as Nepal, Peru, Turkey, Spain, Russia, and Taiwan (Fulbright Student Grant ETA Program)
• developed and implemented a summer program in Rochester focused on the high-school-aged refugee student population (Davis Peace Fellowship)
• contributed to research on climate change and energy policy at a world-renowned think tank in the nation’s capital (Carnegie Junior Fellowship)
• studied history of science and intellectual thought at Cambridge; received funding for a PhD in psychiatry at Cambridge (Gates Cambridge Scholarship)
• studied the Holocaust and human rights in Europe alongside international students and learned from noted scholars, policy experts, government officials, and activists (Humanity in Action Foundation Fellowship)
• received three years of funding (>$100K each) for pursuit of a PhD in fields such as anthropology, earth & environmental sciences, biomedical engineering, physics, and math (NSF Graduate Research Fellowship)
Parents: Encourage your academic standout to connect with the Fellowships Office before leaving for summer break. He or she could be among the next UR winners of a prestigious national student fellowship.