Graduate
Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT:
Potential Funding Sources for Students
Updated 5/19/03
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For complete information on fellowship and funding opportunities via the GSO
office, contact Brima Wurie, Fellowships Administrator of Graduate Students:
Brima Wurie
wurie@MIT.EDU
(617) 253-1958
Building 3-136A
Annual GSO
Fellowships
- With exception
of Ida M. Green Fellowship, one nomination per department for each award.
- All awards
submitted by departmental graduate office on behalf of student.
- Require 1-2
page research summary, curriculum vitae, transcript, two letters of recommendation
from faculty in department, Statement of Objectives from application for admission.
- Deadline: 5:00
PM, March 10, 2003; Awards announced March 21, 2003.
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Details and Qualifications
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Eli and Dorothy Berman Fund Fellowship
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Number of Awards: One
Field: Unrestricted
Amount: Tuition and Student Health Insurance
Tenure: One semester, not renewable
Eligibility: Any graduate student. |
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Ida M. Green Fellowships
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Number of Awards: Four
Nominations/Department: Each department may nominate one MIT senior
woman who will be entering a graduate program at MIT, and one non-MIT woman entering a graduate program
Field: Unrestricted
Amount: Tuition plus a stipend of $2,170 per month
Tenure: Nine months, not renewable
Eligibility: Nominees must be entering women graduate students. |
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John A. Lyons Fellowship
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Number of Awards: Variable
Field: Unrestricted
Amount: Tuition and Student Health Insurance, plus
a stipend of $1,950 per month
Tenure: Original award is for nine months; support
may be continued up to two years total, pending request for renewal
Eligibility: Graduates of Boston College, born within a 20-mile radius
of the Massachusetts State House. Preference
(though not absolute) to applicants of Irish descent, and of the Roman
Catholic faith. |
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T.S. Lin Fellowship
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Number of Awards: One
Field: Unrestricted
Amount: Tuition plus a stipend of $1,950 per month
Tenure: One semester, not renewable
Eligibility: Graduate students from Tatung
Institute, or a student from the Republic of China recommended by Tatung Institute. |
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Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Fellowship
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Number of Awards: Variable
Field: Unrestricted
Amount: Tuition and/or stipend as determined by the
Hugh Hampton Young Selection Committee
Tenure: Nine months to twelve months, possible renewal
Eligibility: Nominees are recommended to the Hugh Hampton
Young Memorial Fund Council which makes the final selection. Candidate Qualifications (from the Memo-randum of Agreement):
1) More consideration is given
to personal qualifications and character than to academic record;
2) A desirable candidate should be one whose qualities and character show
a high promise of becoming a successful leader and coordinator;
3) "a creator of new ideas";
4) "an individual of high integrity and moral character with a strong
will and determination to accomplish";
5) "have exceptionally broad interests";
6) "possess strong interdisciplinary interests". |
Additional
MIT Scholarships:
- Kelly-Douglas
Fund: "This Fund was created to support the research expenses of
all students in the humanities, arts and social sciences, and the research
and teaching expenses of faculty, especially junior faculty, in the same fields.
All faculty members are invited to apply for honoraria for guest lecturers,
and are encouraged to invite any qualified student within their fields to
apply. Note that humanistic scholarship and teaching includes any that has
the noble goal of augmenting our understanding of human endeavors within a
field of the Humanities, Arts or Social Sciences. Because the Kelly-Douglas
Fund is small, grants are typically modest. Most are in the range of $100
to $400. The goal is to assist as many faculty and students as possible."
http://web.mit.edu/mta/www/music/resources/kellyfund.html.
- Carroll
L. Wilson Award: "The Carroll L. Wilson Award is a grant for up to
$5,000* awarded to graduate students, in any MIT department, who wish to pursue
exciting and challenging research opportunities abroad. The aim of the Wilson
awards is to provide opportunities for MIT graduate students to explore a
program of research and/or study of an important societal problem with international
dimensions. " http://entrepreneurship.mit.edu/wilson_award.php
- Dumbros
Fund: "For undergraduate and graduate students from Hancock County,
Oh (Findlay, Oh and surrounding areas). Covers full tuition and stipend."
Contact: Susan Wilson in Student Financial Services, sawilson@mit.edu, (617)
253-7459.
Notable
External Scholarships and Fellowships:
- Paul and
Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans: "The 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. The Program is established in recognition
of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude
for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their
family." Award: "A stipend of $20,000 per year plus the payment
of one-half of tuition charges, for up to 2 years of graduate study."
Deadline: Nov 1, 2003. http://www.pdsoros.org/,
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/record.phtml?code=A0653.
- Ford Foundation:
International Fellowships Program: "Annual program to provide opportunity
for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use their education
to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering development in their
own countries and greater economic and social justice worldwide. Applicants
must be from social groups and communities that lack systematic access to
higher education." http://www.fordfound.org/,
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/record.phtml?code=A1116.
- Fulbright
Grants: "The U.S. Student Program is designed to give recent B.S./B.A.
graduates, master's and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists
opportunities for personal development and international experience. Most
grantees plan their own programs. Projects may include university coursework,
independent library or field research, classes in a music conservatory or
art school, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination."
http://www.iie.org/fulbright.
- Post-Graduation:
National Endowment for the Humanities: Fellowships: "Fellowships
support individuals pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes
to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding of the humanities.
Successful applicants will receive an outright award of $24,000 for a six
to eight-month full-time tenure and $40,000 for a nine to twelve-month full-time
tenure." Deadline: May 1, 2003. http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html.
- Institute
for the Study of World Politics: Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowships for
Master's Level Work
- Intercollegiate
Studies Institute (ISI): Richard M. Weaver Fellowship
- International
Education Research Foundation (IERF): Research Grants
- National
Security Education Program (NSEP), Academy for Educational Development (AED):
David L. Boren Graduate Fellowships
- Organization
of American States: PRA Fellowships
- Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: U.S. Department of State Graduate Foreign
Affairs Fellowship Program
- Reinhard
Mohn Fellowship