SRC Fellowships and Scholarship Competition, Expiring February 15, 2011

The 2011-2012 SRC Global Research Collaboration (GRC) Fellowship and Scholarship Competition is still accepting applications.

All applications are due on February 15, 2011. Notifications will be made in April of 2011. Applications must be complete to be considered.

SRC offers doctoral fellowships and master's scholarships through the Global Research Collaboration (GRC) and one doctoral fellowship through the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI), the SRC NRI/Hans J. Coufal Fellowship. The GRC Graduate Fellowship Program (GFP) is funded through GRC and the SRC Education Alliance and supports about 35 Fellowships each year. The GRC Master's Scholarship Program (MSP), targeting underrepresented minorities and women, is also funded through GRC and the SRC Education Alliance and supports about 12 Scholarships each year. Both the GFP and MSP include company-named awards currently supported by Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Materials, Freescale Semiconductor, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, Intel Foundation, NIST, Novellus Systems, and Texas Instruments.

The program is designed to attract students in underrepresented populations to graduate study in disciplines of interest to the semiconductor industry.  For additional information and application forms, visit http://www.src.org/student-center/fellowship/

NEW WITH THIS COMPETITION:
• Stipend for both the GFP and MSP will be $2,252/month beginning Fall 2011.
• Application materials must be RECEIVED (rather than postmarked) by February 15, 2011.

CRITERIA:
• US/permanent resident students
• Competition is open to students who are or will be pursuing a Master’s or Ph.D. degree under a GRC research contract and under the direction of GRC-designated faculty.
     • Fellowships:          
o Tenure is five years with the intention of ATTRACTING new students; GRC encourages faculty to   use the fellowships as a recruiting tool. However, qualified students with at least two years to completion of the PhD are also encouraged to apply.
o A limited number of fellowships will be awarded for one year to promising students just beginning graduate studies, but not having a clear GRC contract connection (e.g., students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities program). If these students are able to connect to a GRC contract within the year, the fellowship will continue for the full tenure.
     • Scholarships:          
o Open to qualified students who are also women and/or members of underrepresented minority groups (African American, Hispanic, and Native American).

Internships, Fellowships, Scholarships, and REUs Abound at the NSF and NASA!

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NASA host a variety of internships, fellowships, scholarships, and REUs nationwide to a wide range of STEM fields and related disciplines! These opportunities are open to undergraduate students and graduates alike.

For more information, please check out SOLAR, the one-stop shop to apply for these opportunities: http://intern.nasa.gov/

There are also over 450 REUs and 150+ Post-Doctoral opportunities to be found at www.pathwaystoscience.org.

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation seeks to recruit talented college graduates and mid-career professionals to teach science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (the STEM fields).
Woodrow Wilson’s Teaching Fellowship offers rigorous teaching preparation, extensive clinical experience, and ongoing mentoring, as well as a $30,000 stipend.  These new Woodrow Wilson Fellows will be STEM scholars and experts—outstanding college juniors and seniors majoring in these fields, recent college graduates, and second-career professionals—interested in teaching in high-need urban and rural middle and secondary schools.

Accepted Fellows will begin their studies in summer 2011 in a master’s degree program at one of fourteen participating universities in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.  In exchange, Fellows will commit to teach math or science in a high-need urban or rural middle or secondary school for three years upon completing the master’s degree and appropriate state teaching certification.

Fellows from various Woodrow Wilson programs, including 13 Nobel Laureates, 35 MacArthur “genius grant” winners, and two Fields Medalists in mathematics,  have gone on to achieve international recognition as intellectual leaders and top scholars. The WW Teaching Fellows will become lifelong members of this network of talented academics and leaders.

For additional information regarding the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship, please visit:  www.woodrow.org/teach.  If you would like to be nominated for this prestigious fellowship, please contact Dean Sue Larson at smlarson@illinois.edu.