Bertha Morton Scholarship (University of Montana) Deadline: spring semester, upon departmental nomination A campus-wide competition administered by the Graduate School, these nominations are made by each graduate program based upon the following criteria: 1. academic record 2. publications 3. honors and awards 4. evidence of creative activities 5. other pertinent evidence of academic achievement Awards may range from $1000 to $4000.
WAGS/UMI Distinguished Master's Thesis Award Sponsored by the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) and UMI Publishing. Contact the UM Graduate School 406/243-2572 for information. NOMINATION DEADLINE: August ELIGIBILITY: Nominations in any discipline in which the institution offers master's degree but no graduate degree beyond the master's. The scholarl "product" eligible for this competition is a formal written thesis. Each nomination requires a written endorsement of the Dean of the Graduate School. Each member institution may submit only one nomination for the award.
The Merrill Lynch Forum Innovation Grants Competition seeks to stimulate inventiveness by challenging recent Ph.D.s in the sciences, liberal arts and engineering disciplines to examine their best research in light of its real world applications. The Competition will seek to make academic research more accessible and relevant to the public at large. Deadline: mid-December. For more information visit http://www.ml.com/woml/forum/innovation.
National Academies Christine Mirzayan Internship Program. November 1 deadline for 12 week January program. March 1 deadline for 10 week June program. PURPOSE: The Christine Mirzayan Internship Program of the National Academies is designed to engage graduate science, engineering, medical, veterinary, business, and law students in the analysis and creation of science and technology policy and to familiarize them with the interactions of science, technology, and government. As a result, students develop essential skills different from those attained in academia and make the transition from being a graduate student to a professional. Application, reference, and demographic forms are available at http://www.nationalacademies.org/internship.
National Security Education Program (NSEP) Fellowship. Deadline: mid-January. Award recipients are selected on the basis of merit in a two-stage national merit review process. The selection process includes consideration of the relationship between the applicant's proposed study to U.S. national security, and how the applicant proposes to use knowledge and expertise gained from NSEP support to contribute to U.S. national security, among other selection criteria. For more information visit http://www.aed.org/nsep/.
