These fellowships provide up to five years of support, with a stipend of $12,000 plus tuition waivers and other support for four years and with the fifth year support at a rate that is typical in the student's academic program. This is a state-wide program administered through the Florida Education Fund (FEF). Applications are available on the FEF website. For more information regarding FSU application procedures, contact the Office of Graduate Studies, 408 Westcott, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1047, (850) 644-3500, or email: dwieckow@mailer.fsu.edu.
These fellowships are for newly enrolling African American and Hispanic graduate students. DEADLINE: January 15. For more information please contact: Florida Education Fund, 201 E. Kennedy Blvd., Suite 1525, Tampa, FL 33602, (813) 272-2772.
Leslie N. Wilson-Delores Auzenne Assistantship for Minorities
The 2008-09 Leslie Wilson - Delores Auzenne Assistantship for Minorities competition has ended. The application for the 2009-10 competition will be available in October 2008.
Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships
These fellowships are awarded on the basis of national competition to US citizens or nationals. Approximately sixty predoctoral fellowships, thirty-five dissertation fellowships, and twenty postdoctoral fellowships are awarded annually. The stipend is $20,000 for the predoctoral fellowship (per year for up to three years), $21,000 for the dissertation fellowship (for one year), and $40,000 for the postdoctoral fellowship (for one year). DEADLINES: predoctoral, November 15; dissertation and postdoctoral, November 29. For more information please contact: Fellowships Office, 500 Fifth Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, (202) 334-2872, email: infofell@nas.edu, national-academies.org/fellowships.
American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship
A national competition for women at the final stage of writing their dissertations. The fellowship provides a stipend of $20,000. DEADLINE: November 15. AAUW provides other fellowship and postdoctoral opportunities. For more information on fellowship opportunities for women and application information please contact: AAUW Educational Foundation, 1111 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036; Phone: 1-800-326-AAUW; email: aauw@act.org; aauw.org.
GEM Fellowships in Engineering and Science
GEM is a national program to encourage graduate education for members of underrepresented minority groups (American Indians, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other Hispanic Americans). Competition is on a national basis. Students awarded a GEM fellowship may attend any university that is a member of the GEM consortium (The FAMU/FSU College of Engineering is a member.) Stipends are $10,000 for master's students, and $14,000 for the first year of doctoral study. The program requires an internship in the industry during one summer. Application materials are available from the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering graduate office, (850) 410-6369. DEADLINE: December 1. Information can also be obtained directly from GEM, PO Box 537, Notre Dame, IN 46556, (574) 631-7771 or FAX (574) 287-1486; (Applications can be requested by fax) or email: gem.1@nd.edu, was.nd.edu/gem/gemwebapp/gem_00_000.htm.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Fund
Approximately three awards per year are given to graduate and undergraduate students. Stipend is $350. DEADLINE: November 15. For more information please contact: Joy Bowen, 309 Westcott Building, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1340, (850) 644-2450.
The Florida-Georgia Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (FGAMP)
Varied funding is available to African American or Hispanic FGAMP scholars who have received a bachelorŐs degree from one of the cooperating FGAMP institutions in Florida or Georgia. For more information please contact: Dr. Emmanuel Collins, College of Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, email: ecollins@eng.fsu.edu; (850) 410-6375.
Latin American - Caribbean Scholars
Graduate students who are citizens from Latin America and Caribbean (including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) who have been awarded a nonduty scholarship from the U.S. federal government, the State of Florida government or by the government of the Latin American/Caribbean country of origin, of a minimum of $500 per academic year (fall and spring semesters) may be eligible to be designated as Latin American and Caribbean Scholarship recipients. A Latin American and Caribbean Scholarship recipient (LAC) will be classified as a Florida resident for tuition purposes only. For questions, please contact the Office of Graduate Studies at (850) 644-3500, the International Center at (850) 644-1702, the Office of Graduate Admissions at (850) 644-3420, or the Office of the Registrar at (850) 644-1050.
Minority Graduate Student Orientation Program Award
Open to "New-to-Florida-State-University" graduate students. Upon successfully completing a four-week summer program, recipients receive a $1,300 stipend. This is a program supported by the Florida Board of Trustees. For more information please contact: Dr. Patrick Mason, African-American Studies Program, 211 Bellamy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32304-4028, (850) 644-9146.
