Scholarships
Environment and Society Institute Graduate Fellowship
The Environment and Society Institute (ESI) will award ESI Graduate Student Fellowships to outstanding applicants to UB graduate programs. These "top-off" fellowships of $5,000 are designed to augment departmental or other support and to attract students to UB who might otherwise join graduate programs at other universities. Thus, students who have done no previous graduate work at UB are likely to receive preference.
Fellowship recipients are expected to enroll in at least one interdisciplinary environmental seminar per year and to participate in appropriate activities of the institute. Fellowships may be renewed for a second year contingent upon availability of funding and the demonstration of satisfactory progress in interdisciplinary environmental research.
Arthur A. Schomburg Graduate Fellowship Program
Sponsored by the State University of New York, this highly competitive fellowship is available to African American, Hispanic American, and Native American graduate students with outstanding undergraduate academic records upon their acceptance as first-time, full-time graduate students. This fellowship program currently supports approximately 140 students at the University at Buffalo.
Graduate departments nominate individual students for this award, which consists of both a stipend and a tuition scholarship. Students should contact the department for information concerning the nomination process.
New York State Regents Professional Opportunity Scholarships
An estimated 220 New York State Professional Opportunity Scholarships will be available for full-time study in approved programs leading to licensure. Scholarship winners will receive from $1,000 to $5,000 a year for up to four years for educational expenses.
Applicants must be economically disadvantaged and a member of a minority group historically underrepresented in the licensed profession or a student enrolled in or a graduate of a state-sponsored opportunity program. The application is usually available in January and due in late-April.
www.hesc.com/professional.html
Eleanor Allwork Scholarship
This award is granted to a New York City resident studying architecture in an accredited first-professional-degree program in New York State. The student must be recognized by the faculty as having strong academic abilities and financial need. The recipient must be a first-professional-degree candidate returning next semester for their last year of study.
American Institute of Architects (AIA)/American Architectural Foundation (AAF) Scholarship
This award is administered in conjunction with the staff of the National Architectural Accrediting Board-approved programs of architecture in the U.S. and recognized Canadian schools of architecture. The awards are supported by a combination of funds from the AIA and the AAF. The following criteria are used to determine a recipient: student's abilities, interest in the profession, potential to be in architecture, high motivation, overall impression of excellence, and financial need.
SOM Foundation Architecture Traveling Fellowships Program
Established more than fifteen years ago, the fellowships are now an important measure of design achievement among architecture students and their sponsors, attracting nominees from over fifty schools of architecture across the country. They also recognize the excellence of the schools themselves in training the leading design architects of the next generation.
Three $10,000 fellowships are awarded annually to undergraduate and graduate students in accredited architecture programs in the United States. Each school is allowed to submit not more than two candidates in each category.
For more information, contact:
Lisa Westerfield (312) 427 4202
e-mail: SOMFoundation@som.com
American Architectural Foundation RTKL Traveling Fellowship
One grant of $2,500 is given to support travel to a foreign country to further educational goals. Applicants must be in the second to last year of a B.Arch. or an M.Arch. and planning to travel, or accepted into a program and planning travel that will benefit their educational goals.
Contact: Mary Felber, Director, Scholarship Programs, 1735 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20006-5292
AAUW Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants: Selected Professions Fellowships
Selected Professions Fellowships are awarded to women who intend to pursue a full-time course of study at accredited institutions during the fellowship year in one of the designated degree programs where women’s participation traditionally has been low. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents.
Candidates in all programs except the master’s in engineering and medicine are eligible to apply for support for the final year of study only and are expected to receive their degrees at the end of the fellowship year. Women pursuing master’s in engineering programs are eligible to apply for either the first or final year of study. Women in medical programs may apply for either their third or final year of study. Doctoral candidates in engineering must be entering the final stages of writing their dissertations. Special consideration is given to applicants who show professional promise in innovative or neglected areas of research or practice in areas of public interest.
