Graduate School Fellowships
Graduate fellowships are merit-based awards for current University of Maryland graduate students that enable the recipient to focus on graduate study, that do not have to be repaid, and that generally include both a stipend and tuition remission. Fellowships differ from Graduate Assistantships, which carry an obligation to teach classes, to work on a research project, or to perform administrative tasks.
Fellowship offers generally are made by graduate programs to incoming students as part of a recruitment package; some are made to current students through competitive awards processes. Applicants to graduate programs and current students should contact the relevant program for more information on available fellowships.
The University of Maryland is committed to diversity and encourages programs to offer support to a diverse range of students consistent with campus principles of equal opportunity.
Recruitment and retention fellowships are funded either internally, through the Graduate School’s University and Dean’s Fellowships to colleges, or externally, through a variety of outside funding agencies. In addition, the Graduate School has instituted several award and fellowship competitions.
Flagship Fellowships
Flagship Fellowships are intended to help graduate programs to recruit and retain truly exceptional students. Flagship Fellowships are multi-year enhancement awards to be added to fellowship/assistantship offers made by graduate programs. Flagship Fellowship enhancements may total $40,000 per student over the duration of the award. The goal is to award ten Flagship Fellowships per year, reaching a steady state of approximately forty Flagship Fellows. Nominations for the Flagship Fellowship will be due in the Graduate School by Friday, January 27, 2012 by noon.
Please click HERE for the 2012 Flagship Fellowship Guidelines.
Nomination Cover Sheet Forms: PDF.
Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowships
In the Spring 2012 recruitment cycle, the Graduate School will award up to five Ronald E. McNair Graduate Fellowships. The new McNair Fellowship program will enhance opportunities for our campus doctoral programs to recruit and retain outstanding alumni or alumnae of McNair undergraduate programs from institutions across the country. The McNair Graduate Fellowships will provide entering graduate students with a first-year support package that includes a fellowship stipend of $18,000, plus tuition remission, fees, and health insurance. Programs admitting McNair Fellows must commit to providing an additional three-year package of at least comparable annual GA and/or fellowship support. The deadline is
Friday, February 3, 2012 by noon.
Please click HERE for the 2012 McNair Graduate Fellowship guidelines.
Nomination Cover Sheet Forms:
PDF.
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships provide support to outstanding doctoral students at “mid-career,” that is, in the period approximately before, during, or after achievement of candidacy, and are intended to enable students to prepare for or complete a key benchmark in their program’s requirements. Summer Research Fellowships carry stipends of $5,000.
2012 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship Guidelines and nomination forms are available below. Nominations are due on Monday, March 14th, by noon.
Please click HERE for the 2012 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship guidelines.
Nomination Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document.
Recommendation Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document.
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertation and whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertation. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of $10,000 plus candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The Graduate School awards approximately 40 Wylie Dissertation Fellowships per year.
2012-2013 Wylie Fellowship guidelines and nomination forms are available below and are due on Tuesday, February 21st 2012, by noon
Nomination Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document
Advisor Recommendation Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document
DGS Recommendation Forms: Select either PDF or Word Document
Endowed Awards
The Graduate School also administers competitions for four endowed awards: The Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, The James W. Longest Memorial Award for Social Science Research, The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, and The Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship. For more information, please click
HERE.
Distinguished Dissertation Award
Last year, the Graduate School inaugurated our annual University of Maryland Distinguished Dissertation Award. This year will be our second competition and will be for PhD dissertations defended and submitted to the Graduate School in calendar year 2011. The selection process for the second annual Distinguished Dissertation will occur in Spring 2012. For information on endowed awards and the dissertation award, please click
HERE.
Travel Grants
The Graduate School administers the Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant and the International Conference Student Support Award which provide funding for graduate students presenting academic work at conferences and professional meetings. Please click
HERE for more information ,
School of Public Health Fellowship
The Herschel S. Horowitz Center for Health Literacy has established a new dissertation fellowship award for doctoral students whose dissertation research relates to health literacy. The Rima E. Rudd Fellowship is an annual award and it is intended to support the next generation of researchers who advance the science of health literacy. Please
click here to learn more.
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship
The Graduate School invites applications for the 2012-2013 Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowship. The Liebmann Fellowship covers actual tuition costs (exclusive of fees) plus an $18,000 annual stipend to be allocated towards room, board and ordinary living expenses, as well as any income taxes thereon. Please review the guidelines carefully.
The University of Maryland may nominate up to three candidates for consideration by the Dolores Liebmann Fund selection committee. Graduate Students wishing to be considered for nomination must submit their complete application packages in hardcopy to the Graduate School by
Thursday, January 5th, 2012. The current application can be found
HERE.
Please address the complete application to:
Ms. Robyn Kotzker
The Graduate School
2125 Lee Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Students will be notified by January 25th as to whether their applications will be forwarded to the Liebmann Fund selection committee. Please contact Robyn Kotzker (rkotzker@umd.edu / x 5-0281) if you have any questions.
Important Fellowship Information
For general fellowship information, tax information for graduate fellows, health insurance information, and tuition remission guidelines, please click
HERE.
External Fellowship Information
To find information on external graduate fellowships, please click
HERE.
