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The CUNY Graduate Center has several Dissertation Fellowships available for students on a competitive basis. For application materials, FAQ, and further information, please see the materials attached here: CUNYGC Dissertation Fellowship

The Graduate Center is pleased to announce the formation of three new
interdisciplinary committees made possible by a generous $2.41 million
grant from the Mellon Foundation and the support of the Vice Chancellor’s
Office: the Committee for Science Studies, the Committee for the Study of
Religion, and the Committee for the Study of Globalization. A cornerstone
of the development of these committees is a new fellowship opportunity for
doctoral students, a one-semester award of $10,000. The graduate fellows
will work alongside one another in a seminar with the Graduate Center’s
faculty and post-docs, as well as participate in the colloquia culture that
each Committee will cultivate, sharing and sharpening their research.
Attached you will find descriptions of the committees and the seminar
themes they have chosen to focus their fellowship search, as well as an
application form. We look forward to welcoming our first co-hort of fellows
in Spring of 2011. To this end, please review the attached materials and
submit your application no later than DECEMBER 1, 2010.  Materials are attached here: Mellon Graduate Fellowship

These Fellowships are administered by the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  The Fellowships are intended to help students registered as doctoral candidates at North American universities to:

(1) work in original source materials in the humanities in the UK;

(2) deepen their ability to develop knowledge from original sources;

(3) provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed most helpfully in the future.

There are two types of Fellowship: Pre-dissertation and Dissertation.  The Pre-dissertation Fellowship (stipend value USD $5,000) is offered for a maximum of 2 months and is intended to help candidates draw up and revise a dissertation proposal.  Candidates must have completed their coursework and examinations prior to the start of the Fellowship.  The Dissertation Fellowship (stipend value USD $25,000) is offered to candidates already working on their dissertation and who need to spend time in the UK to carry out archival research.  These fellowships will run concurrently with the academic year (i.e. 1 OCT 2011 to 30 SEPT 2012).

The closing date for receipt of applications, and supporting documentation, is 14 JAN 2011.  Further details and forms can be found here.

Below is an excerpt from from President Kelly’s recent email (1 NOV 2010) to the Graduate Center community, in which he provided an update on several budgetary concerns.  The full text of his update can be found here, but this posted excerpt deals exclusively with student support:

“STUDENT SUPPORT. In 2001-2002, total doctoral student support, both tax-levy and philanthropic, was $14.2 million. This year that number is $44.7 million, a gain of $30.5 million in eight years.   We now offer 1700 five-year recruitment packages; remit tuition for all students who teach at CUNY during their first five years of enrollment; extend low-cost NYSHIP health insurance to doctoral students who teach at CUNY (2100 and counting); and absorb the out-of-state tuition differential for Chancellor’s and Science Fellows. This from a base of zero.  There’s still work to do; these gains have only leveled the playing field and competitive packages remain a moving target. But as growth in both our application and yield rates attests, we are recruiting and sustaining very strong cohorts of doctoral candidates. Eight years ago we admitted 49% of applicants and 42% of those successful candidates enrolled. Last year we admitted 33% of applicants and 54% of those candidates matriculated. Those numbers tell only a portion of the story. By all accounts, the quality of our applicant pool has increased dramatically; we are now competing with the best universities in the country for new students. To a considerable extent, our success is a function of enhanced financial aid, but the primary magnet for doctoral students remains perceived strength of faculty. And on that score, we’ve done very well indeed.”

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF) has announced the creation of a new Dissertation Fellowship in support of advanced doctoral candidates in a variety of fields. The JKCF assists high-achieving low-income students, from middle school to graduate school, in reaching their full potential through education. It will award two, $25,000 fellowships in 2011, and it plans to offer up to five annually in the coming years.

The application deadline is February 4, 2011.

To read more about the Fellowship, please visit the JKCF website, and look at the attached flyer.

For More information & to apply online visit www.ascsa.edu.gr or contact
ASCSA, 6-8 Charlton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540.

Tel: 609-683-0800

Email: ascsa@ascsa.org

UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs announces the 2011 call for applications
to the Heliophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, sponsored by the NASA
Living with a Star (LWS) program.

Proposals addressing the LWS program that are interdisciplinary are
strongly encouraged.

For additional information and instructions on how to apply, please visit:
www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics

The deadline for applications is January 10th, 2011.

The Huntington is an independent research center with holdings in British
and American history, literature, art history, and the history of science
and medicine. The Huntington will award to scholars over one hundred
fellowships for the academic year 2011-2012.

Application deadline for all fellowships: December 15, 2010. Applications
postmarked after the deadline will not be considered.

For more information visit the Huntington’s website at
http://www.huntington.org

Contact: Robert C. Ritchie, W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research
Phone: (626) 405-2194
Fax: (626) 449-5703
Email: cpowell@huntington.org

The Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship is open to Graduates of the
College of Fine and Applied Arts of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign and to graduates of similar institutions of equal
educational standing whose principal or major studies have been in the
fields of art, architecture, dance, landscape, architecture, music,
theatre, and urban and regional planning.

Applications forms and guidelines for the Fellowship are located at
http://faa.illinois.edu/files/KateNealKinley.pdf

The deadline for receipt of complete applications is December, 3rd 2010.

If you have any questions, please call 217.333.1660

Applications are available at www.npsc.org. The NPSC offers two programs:

1) The Traditional NPSC Program provides a two-phase, six-year fellowship
for which students typically apply during their senior year.

2) The Dissertation Support Program provides support while the graduate
student conducts dissertation research. Students should apply in the year
prior to the beginning of their dissertation research.

The deadline for the online application is November 5, 2010.