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• Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowships:

-- Sponsor: Marquette University

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides two one-year fellowships designed to help increase the presence of currently underrepresented racial and cultural groups in the U.S. professoriate by supporting doctoral candidates in completing the final academic requirement, the dissertation. The fellowship carries a stipend of $35,000.

-- Deadline(s): 01/11/2010

-- Web Site: http://www.marquette.edu/as/graduate_mitchem.shtml

-- Program URL: http://www.marquette.edu/as/documents/2010-11GeneralInformation.pdf

-- OBJECTIVES: The primary goal of the Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program is to help increase the presence of currently underrepresented racial and cultural groups in the U.S. professoriate by supporting doctoral candidates in completing the final academic requirement, the dissertation. Mitchem Fellowships provide one year of support for two students with advanced candidacy in their doctoral programs in other U.S. universities. Fellows are to be in residence at Marquette University for the academic year (23 August-22 May) during which they teach one course in their area of specialization, interact with faculty and undergraduate students, and devote their primary energies to the completion of their dissertations. During their residence, Mitchem Fellows will participate in a mentoring process, collaborating with a senior faculty mentor in the Fellow's discipline, who is appointed by the Dean.

Applications for the 2010-2011 Fellowships are invited for the following academic areas: Education, English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Mathematics and Mathematics Education, Statistics, and Computer Science, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Social and Cultural Sciences, Theology, and Religious Studies.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Eligible applicants are those who: have not earned a doctoral degree at any time or in any field, are U. S. citizens or nationals, have completed all other requirements for the Ph.D., are well into the writing stage of their dissertation work, and belong to a racial-cultural group historically underrepresented in the U.S. professoriate. African American, Native American and Hispanic American candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

-- FUNDING: Marquette University Mitchem Fellows will receive financial support ($35,000 stipend, plus fringe benefits, research and travel monies) for the 2010-2011 academic year. The sponsor will further provide library privileges, office space, access to computer and clerical support equivalent to that enjoyed by regular faculty members in the department with which he or she is affiliated.

• Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships--Predoctoral Fellowships:

-- Sponsor: National Research Council

-- SYNOPSIS: The sponsor provides predoctoral fellowships to members of minority groups whose underrepresentation in the professoriate has been severe and long-standing. Eligible to apply are citizens or nationals of the United States. The award provides an annual stipend of $20,000 and an institutional award to be accepted in lieu of tuition and fees of $2,000. Awards are made for three years.

-- Deadline(s): 11/02/2009

-- E-mail: infofell@nas.edu

-- Program URL: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/FordFellowships/PGA_047958

-- DEADLINE NOTE: In order to be reviewed, the on-line application must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on November 2, 2009. Supplementary Materials must be received in the Fellowships Office by January 7, 2010.

-- OBJECTIVES: The sponsor provides predoctoral fellowships to members of six minority groups whose underrepresentation in the professoriate has been severe and long-standing. Awards will be made for study in research-based Ph.D. or Sc.D. programs that include the following major disciplines and related interdisciplinary fields: American studies, anthropology, archaeology, art and theater history, astronomy, chemistry, communications, computer science, earth sciences, economics, engineering, ethnomusicology, geography, history, international relations, language, life sciences, linguistics, literature, mathematics, performance study, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, urban planning, and women's studies. Also eligible are interdisciplinary ethnic studies programs, such as African American studies and Native American studies, and other interdisciplinary programs, such as area studies, peace studies, and social justice.

-- ELIGIBILITY: Eligibility to apply is limited to: citizens or nationals of the United States (applicants must have become a citizen by the application deadline date: November 2, 2009); members of the following groups: Alaskan Natives (Eskimo or Aleut), Black/African Americans, Mexican Americans/Chicanas/Chicanos, Native American Indians, Native Pacific Islanders (Polynesian/Micronesian), and Puerto Ricans; individuals enrolled in, or planning to enroll in, a research-based PhD or ScD program in one of the fields listed; individuals committed to a teaching and research career at the college or university level; and persons who have not earned a doctoral degree at any time, in any field. Awards will be made for study in research-based PhD or ScD programs in selected academic disciplines that lead to careers in teaching and research at the college or university level. Predoctoral fellowships are intended for students who have enrolled in, or plan to enroll in, a PhD or ScD program: undergraduates in their senior year; individuals who have completed undergraduate study; individuals who have completed some graduate study; and individuals already enrolled in a PhD or ScD program. Fellowships are tenable at any accredited nonprofit U.S. institution of higher education offering PhDs or ScDs in the fields eligible for support in this program.

-- FUNDING: Approximately 40 predoctoral fellowships will be awarded. All three years of support must be used within a five-year period. The award provides an annual stipend of $20,000; an institutional award to be accepted in lieu of tuition and fees of $2,000; and expenses paid to attend one conference of Ford Fellows.