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Frederik Meijer Honors College
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Phone: 616-331-3219 Frederik Meijer Honors College honors@gvsu.edu Glenn A. Niemeyer Learning and Living Center 1 Campus Drive Allendale, MI 49401 |
Morris K. Udall Scholarship ProgramThe Udall Foundation seeks future leaders across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, including policy, engineering, science, education, urban planning and renewal, business, health, justice, and economics. The foundation also seeks future Native American and Alaska Native leaders in public and community health care, tribal government, and public policy affecting Native American communities, including land and resource management, economic development, and education.
Who should apply: · College sophomores and juniors interested in careers related to environmental
Student applications must be submitted to Dr. Jeffrey Chamberlain by February 15, 2009.
Student nominations are forwarded to the Morris K. Udall Foundation by March 3, 2009.
Dr. Jeffrey Chamberlain
For application information and materials, visit their website: www.udall.gov.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarships
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Seattle, Washington donated to the University of Cambridge $210 million to establish the Gates Cambridge Trust. This benefaction creates in perpetuity an international scholarship programme to enable outstanding graduate students from outside the United Kingdom to study at the University of Cambridge. The Trustees are required to award scholarships on the basis of a person's intellectual ability, leadership capacity and desire to use their knowledge to contribute to society throughout the world by providing service to their communities and applying their talents and knowledge to improve the lives of others.
Who should apply:
· Must have excellent transcripts with high GPA scores showing evidence of sustained achievement in study, together with the type of academic references which speak of the candidate's leadership potential, social commitment, intellectual ability, and why further study at Cambridge is particularly appropriate.
· Must be admitted to Cambridge through the University's normal academic procedures. The Trust cannot admit students.
Those who are not successful in winning a Gates Cambridge Scholarship will automatically be considered for awards for which they are eligible from one or other of the Cambridge Trusts.
Applications must be submitted by October 2009.
For application information and materials, visit their website: http://trust.gatesscholar.org/
Paul & Daisy Soros FellowshipsThe purpose of The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans is to provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields. Thirty fellowships for up to two years of graduate study in the United States will be awarded each year. A Fellow may study at any accredited graduate program in the United States and pursue a graduate degree in any professional field (e.g., engineering, medicine, law, social work, etc.) or scholarly discipline in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The Fine and Performing Arts are included. Who should apply:
· A resident alien; i.e., holds a Green Card, or has been naturalized as a U.S. citizen, or is the child of two parents who are both naturalized citizens.
· A senior in college, or a student who has recently received a bachelor’s
· Not older than thirty years of age as of November 1st of the year in apply.
Deadlines for applications are November 1st of the year in which they apply.
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
400 West 59th Street New York, NY 10019 (212-547-6926)
For application information and materials, visit their website: http://www.pdsoros.org/index.html
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