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United Negro College Fund (UNCF) Google Scholarship Program:
The application deadline is October 6th. Previous posts on fellowships and scholarships in science and technology including: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (deadline early November) and the proposal for Graduate Scholar Awards in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships seek to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity. To facilitate this goal the Fellowship grants awards at the Predoctoral, Dissertation and, Postdoctoral levels to students whom demonstrate excellence, a commitment to diversity and, a desire to enter the professoriate.
Eligible fields include: Anthropology, archaeology, astronomy, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, economics, engineering, geography, life sciences, linguistics, mathematics, physics, science and psychology. Apply by November 16th.
Related: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - blog posts scholarships and fellowships for science higher education - Proposed Graduate Scholar Awards in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math
IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program (IBM broke link - how hard it is to just keep links alive?)
IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded worldwide. IBM Ph.D. Fellows are awarded tuition, fees, and a stipend of $17,500 (US) for one academic year. IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded annually but may compete annually to be renewed for up to three years, based on the Award Recipient’s continued exceptional academic standing, progress and achievement, and sustained interaction with IBM’s technical community. All Award Recipient’s wishing for an award renewal must be renominated to compete for an award renewal.
Students must be nominated by a faculty member. They must be enrolled full-time in a college or university Ph.D. program, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination.
Open for nominations approximately September 19 through October 31, 2006.
Update this link seem to work now (hopefully they will have less pointy haired bosses in charge from now on but who knows…).
The Bell Labs Graduate Research Fellowship Program (link broken by idiots) is designed to increase the number of minorities and women in the fields of science, math, engineering and technology. Fellowships are awarded to women and members of a underrepresented minority groups who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
The program is primarily directed to graduating college seniors, but applications from first-year graduate students will be considered in the following fields: Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Communications Science, Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Information Science, Materials Science, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Research, Physics and Statistics.
Update: Why are huge companies not even able to follow the most basic web usability concepts. It is amazing to me how incompetent these people are. This link works (even just looking at the url you can tell this is likely to die soon - I have yet to see a well planned web site that uses such a completely lame url) - for who knows how long. Would someone please hurry up and replace idiots that can’t follow the simple web practices with someone who does and let those who don’t copy textbooks by hand or whatever they are able to do.
Related: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - blog posts on fellowships and scholarships
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Google 2006 Australia Anita Borg Scholarship
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRF) is now accepting applications (through early November). The NSF GRF is the largest and most prestigious graduate fellowship program for the sciences in the USA. Approximately 1,000 fellowships, which cover tuition and pay a $30,500 stipend for 3 years, will be awarded again this year. Previous winners include Sergey Brin, Google co-founder (he list winning in his 3 paragraph bio on Google’s site).
The main site for the NSF GRFP includes the solicitation with details on applying and eligibility etc.. I can’t figure out how you find the application from the main site but here is the link to apply for the fellowship.
Advice is available online for applying for the fellowship: How to Win a Graduate Fellowship, Advice for Applicants to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the University of Missouri provides a guide for completing an NSF FRF application.
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The Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program offers hands-on exposure to Air Force research challenges through eight to twelve week research residencies at participating Air Force Research Facilities for full-time science and engineering faculty at USA colleges and universities.
Participants are expected to conduct research at an Air Force Research Laboratory Directorate, U.S. Air Force Academy, or the Air Force Institute of Technology, not at their home institution or any other site. List of 2005 fellows.
The application is now open and the deadline is November 1st.
IIT-M boy wins Microsoft internship
The official code4bill site doesn’t have the final selection posted yet.
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The NASA Robotics Academy is an intensive resident summer program of higher learning for college undergraduate and graduate students interested in pursuing professional and leadership careers in robotics-related fields.
Besides attending lectures and workshops with experts in their field, the Robotics Academy students are involved in supervised research in GSFC laboratories, private companies, and universities, and will participate in visits to other NASA Centers, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a number of robotics-related academic laboratories and industries.
Projects this year include: Conformal Gripping System for Space Robots and Cooperative Team-diagnosis in Multi-robot Systems
NSF Undergraduate Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM)
program details from NSF (web site for schools)
This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate level degree in science and engineering disciplines. Grantee institutions are responsible for selecting scholarship recipients, reporting demographic information about student scholars, and managing the S-STEM project at the institution.
The program does not make scholarship awards directly to students; students should contact their institution’s Office of Financial Aid for this and other scholarship opportunities.
Thanks to Marisa Dorazio, Edmonds Community College, for mentioning this. Apply for the scholarships available from Edmonds Community College. The deadline to apply is Friday, August 18. The application form has contact information in case you have any questions.
How to Win a Graduate Fellowship by Michael Kiparsky
The reason I stuck with it was that I shifted my attitude from an all-or-nothing, win-or-lose mentality. I relaxed, accepted that my chances were slim (everybody’s are!), and approached the process as an opportunity to explore an idea that I actually wanted to pursue, without attachment to the notion of a big payoff.
The article provides some good advice. You must commit the time to do a good job, the competition is steep. At the same time the payoff is large and the process is a learning experience. He lists many fellowships, another one is the Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship.
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The International Fulbright Science and Technology award offers 25 awards for non-USA citizens to study science and engineering in the United States. The deadline for application is 1 September 2006 (though some sources give different dates): apply online. This is the first year this award has been offered.
Eligible fields include: Aeronautics and Aeronautical Engineering, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering (computer, electrical, chemical, civil, environmental, materials, mechanical, ocean, and petroleum), Environmental Science, Geology and Atmospheric Sciences, Information Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Oceanography, and Physics.
I can’t find any information on it on the main state department or fulbright scholar sites. But there are a number of embassy sites that mention it and an article from Barbados.
The Meyerhoff Scholarship Program program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County uses innovative strategies to improve the performance of undergraduate science students.
Why American College Students Hate Science by Brent Staples:
While the need to improve science and engineering education is real we should remember that many good efforts exist. Expanding on the good efforts that exist and continuing to improve education system will benefit not just those students that participate but all of us that benefit from the work they will do.
”It’s Cool to Be Smart” by Kate Swan:
Excellent article: The Olin Experiment by Erico Guizzo:
And if the curriculum is innovative, the school itself is hardly a traditional place: it doesn’t have separate academic departments, professors don’t get tenured, and students don’t pay tuition - every one of them gets a $130 000 scholarship for the four years of study.
Find out more about the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Building a Better Engineer by David Wessel:
We share more thoughts on Olin’s efforts to improve engineering education on our other blog.
From the proposed “Sowing the Seeds Through Science and Engineering Research Act” on the House Democratic Science Committee web site:
Updated, on May 8th, comparison of current related legislation (from the Democrat’s site - if there is a Republican alternative version I would be happy to post that, I just could not find a Republican summary - see more info on the Republican science committee “competitiveness” home page):
Competitiveness Report Recommendation: 5,000 new graduate fellowships each year in STEM areas of national need, administered by NSF. FY 2007,
President’s Competitive Initiative: No provision.
House Bills [Gordon]: H.R. 4596 tracks C-2 recommendation. FY 2007, $225 million.
House Bills [Boehlert]: No exactly equivalent provision. Explicitly authorizes the existing Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, and authorizes NSF to accept funds from other agencies to carry out the DEd. FY 2007, $225 million.
Senate Bills [PACE, S.2197, S.2198, S.2199; and Lieberman, S.2109]: S.2198 tracks C-1 recommendation, except the program is administered by DEd. FY 2007, $225 million.
S.2109 provides for 250 new graduate fellowships each year. FY 2007, $34 million.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Names 20 New Million-Dollar Professors - Top Research Scientists Tapped for their Teaching Talent:
The Institute awarded $20 million to the first group of HHMI professors in 2002 to bring the excitement of scientific discovery to the undergraduate classroom.
The experiment worked so well that neurobiologist and HHMI professor Darcy Kelley convinced Columbia University to require every entering freshman to take a course on hot topics in science. Through Utpal Bannerjee’s HHMI program at the University of California, Los Angeles, 138 undergraduates were co-authors of a peer-reviewed article in a top scientific journal. At the University of Pittsburgh, HHMI professor Graham Hatfull’s undergraduates mentored curious high school students as they unearthed and analyzed more than 30 never-before-seen bacteriophages from yards and barnyards. And Isiah Warner, an award-winning chemist and HHMI professor at Louisiana State University, developed a “mentoring ladder,” a hierarchical model for integrating research, education, and peer mentoring, with a special emphasis on underrepresented minority students.
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