[Plsgs] fellowship

[Schmidt, Monica - (monicaschmidt)]

Hello Graduate Students,

Please see the below announcement for a fellowship opportunity.

We are pleased to announce, once again, the annual Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship and the Dr. Maria Teresa Velez - Marshall Foundation Dissertation Scholarship competition. These awards are intended for graduate students who are in the completion stage of their dissertation and who have exhausted all other funding resources except for federal aid. The award is for Spring 2022 only. The selected Fellows may not hold concurrent graduate assistant/associateships or student wage positions for Spring 2022 or defer the award to the following year.


Award amount of up to $18,678 for Spring 2022 ONLY:


  *   $10,846 cash scholarship
  *   $1,779 student health insurance coverage if enrolled
  *   $6,053 to cover resident graduate base tuition for 7+ graduate units

Eligibility:


  *   UA doctoral candidates whose dissertation proposal has been approved by their doctoral committee
  *   Who have advanced to Doctoral Candidacy (will have been notified of this via email from Graduate Student Academic Services) and expect to defend their doctoral dissertation by December 2022.
  *   U.S. citizenship
  *   Legal Arizona residency* (as determined by the UA Residency Office) - there are no exceptions to the residency requirement
  *   Cumulative GPA of 3.3 or above
  *   Demonstrated financial need as determined by the FAFSA or by the student's own statement of financial support needed to carry out the dissertation
  *   Expected to defend by December 2022
*Applicants must be listed as Arizona residents in the UA system of record at the time of application to qualify for the award. To verify your residency, please log into UAccess Student > Personal > Personal Summary > Demographic Information > Residency Information. If the information incorrect, please contact the Residency Office.
Application information:

  *   A detailed abstract of the dissertation, including the main research question or hypotheses, methodology and summary of result up to date (2 page maximum).
  *   A statement explaining the significance of your dissertation and its potential contribution to our understanding or improvement of issues facing Arizona, the nation and the world (2 page maximum).
  *   A mention of any peer reviewed publication or significant scholarly presentation of your dissertation research.
  *   A detailed timetable identifying dates by when you plan to finish your data collection, data analysis and a draft of each chapter, as well as the expected date of the Oral Defense.
  *   A copy of this year's FAFSA determination and/or your own statement of financial need (you must have financial need to qualify for this award).
  *   One (1) letter of recommendation from your Dissertation Committee Chair, or in rare circumstances, a committee member who best understands your project and can address your scholarly contributions to your field if this is not the case for your Chair. The letter should address your scholarship and verify that you will complete and defend the dissertation by December of the year of award. The letter should be emailed separately to MarshallFoundation at grad.arizona.edu(link sends e-mail)<mailto:MarshallFoundation at grad.arizona.edu?subject=Marshall%20Foundation%20Dissertation%20Fellowship>.
  *   The selected Fellows may not hold concurrent graduate assistant/associateships or student wage positions for Spring 2022 or defer the award for the following year.


Program Overview: https://grad.arizona.edu/funding/opportunities/marshall-foundation-dissertation-fellowship-and-dr-maria-teresa-velez-marshall
Online application:  https://grad.arizona.edu/forms/marshall-foundation-dissertation-fellowship-application
Deadline to submit for Spring 2022 award: September 20, 2021

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