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  • Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Fellowship
    3/10/25
    The CGI Fellowship selects 25 individuals to develop CGI Commitments to Action — new, specific, and measurable projects that advance solutions to critical challenges including the climate crisis, global health inequity, humanitarian crises. Fellows will have a high-profile platform to showcase these commitments at the CGI Annual Meeting.
  • Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Program
    3/4/25
    The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship (also known as the SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship Program) is designed to direct aid to graduate/professional students who have demonstrated academic achievement and overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education. Candidates will contribute to the diversity of the student body by demonstrating their commitment to facilitating and enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in their academic programs and activities. The Schomburg Fellowship is intended to support high-achieving doctoral students. Recipients of Schomburg Fellowships must be new to the degree program; however, students who have previously earned a master's degree or who are currently enrolled in a master's degree program and are applying to transition into a doctoral program are eligible to receive a Schomburg Fellowship. Recipients must be fully funded, including a teaching, graduate or research assistant position.
  • GEM Fellowship Program
    2/24/25
    The GEM fellowship program invests in a competitive American workforce by supporting high-caliber students looking to pursue Master's and Doctoral degrees in applied sciences and engineering, and matches their specific skills to the technical needs of GEM employer members. Through the fellowship, students receive full financial support and a paid internship. The program has received a Presidential Award for its impact in STEM and has produced over 5,000 leaders in STEM.
  • UCLA Public Health Scholars
    2/10/25
    The UCLA Public Health Scholars Training Program provides undergraduate students and recent graduates from across the country the opportunity to explore the field of public health through hands-on training, structured workshops, group events, leadership, and professional development.
  • Fulbright Student Grant for Graduate Study, Research Abroad or English Teaching Assistantship
    2/4/25
    The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English teaching assistant programs. During their grants, Fulbright recipients will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.
  • Benjamin and David Scharps Legal Essay Award
    1/24/25
    The Benjamin and David Scharps Memorial Award was established in the will of Hannah S. Hirschhorn in honor of her brothers, Benjamin and David Scharps who were attorneys. The gift for the award was accepted by the SUNY Board of Trustees in 1974. The funds have been used to award undergraduate students who are prelaw or have an interest in legal studies. As per the bequest, the prize is awarded to a student who writes the best legal essay on the subject determined by the chancellor or designee.  
  • National Science Foundation Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (HEGS-DDRI)
    1/21/25
    The objective of the Human-Environment and Geographical Sciences Program is to support basic scientific research about the nature, causes and/or consequences of the spatial distribution of human activity and/or environmental processes across a range of scales. Contemporary geographical research is an arena in which diverse research traditions and methodologies are valid. Recognizing the breadth of the field's contributions to science, the HEGS Program welcomes proposals for empirically grounded, theoretically engaged, and methodologically sophisticated, generalizable research in all sub-fields of geographical and spatial sciences.
  • Boren Scholarship
    1/21/25
    The Boren Scholarship provides funding to U.S. undergraduate students to study abroad in areas of the world that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. Boren Scholars represent many academic fields but all are interested in studying less commonly taught languages. Successful candidates will be able to relate their career goals, as well as country and language choice to U.S. national security broadly defined. Applicants must demonstrate interest in government service, also broadly defined. The award is for a period of one semester or one academic year and includes $8,000 for a summer program (special initiative for STEM students only; eight weeks minimum), $10,000 for a semester and $20,000 for a full academic year.
  • PRODiG Fellowship
    1/13/25
    The State University of New York (SUNY) has created a Comprehensive College Consortium to fund late-stage pre-doctoral (ABD) and post-doctoral students interested in exploring academic careers. The consortium represents a collaboration among all SUNY comprehensive sector campuses. The initiative creates a more robust pathway into the academy for historically under-represented minority faculty and women in STEM fields. The PRODiG Fellowship Initiative is a model program designed to raise the pace of degree completion and build a more robust pipeline to the professoriate. Personalized mentoring is a key component of the program to develop fellows' pedagogical readiness for future faculty appointments in addition to support for their scholarship and research.
  • The Udall Undergraduate Scholarship
    12/18/24
    The Udall Undergraduate Scholarship is for juniors and sophomores who intend to become leaders across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice and economics. The foundation also seeks future Native American and Alaskan Native leaders in public and community health care, tribal government and public policy affecting Native American communities, including land and resource management, economic development and education.