The deadline for the Shapiro/Malik Awards is October 15th, 2009. They were established by Harold T. Shapiro, former President of the University of Michigan and Vivian Shapiro, former faculty member at the University of Michigan, to assist with interest payments on the unsubsidized educational loans that students are obligated to pay while still in graduate school. Dr. John Malik, a devoted Rackham alumnus in Physics, established an endowment for the same purpose. Both awards are made through a single competition.

Approximately 72 fellowships will be awarded campus-wide for 2010-11; approximately 240 students are nominated each year.  This award consists of candidacy tuition and registration fees, GradCare health insurance, and a $2,250 monthly stipend for a maximum of 12 months.  Applicants must be advanced to candidacy by 15 January 2010 and must be nominated by their department.

The King-Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program is funded by the State of Michigan and is intended to increase the pool of traditionally underrepresented candidates pursuing faculty teaching careers in postsecondary education. Preference may not be given to applicants on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, gender, or national origin.

The American-Scandinavian Foundation Announces 2010/2011 Award Competition

Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships are designed to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students.

Eligibility Requirements:

• - US Citizen or national
• - Planning a career in teaching and research at the college or university level

Stipends and Allowances

If you are interested in nominating a female student for this scholarship see below and refer to the Rackham link.  Pre-nomination materials are due to Diana Woodworth by Wednesday, 28 October 2009. 

Submit the following pre-nomination materials, via e-mail attachment, to dianaw@umich.edu:

The Winter 2010 GSI postings for SNRE and PitE courses are now available. 

The SNRE and PitE application deadline will be: FRIDAY, 9 October, at 4:00 PM.

Established in 2009 by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme aims to attract the outstanding students in the world to pursue their PhD degree programmes in Hong Kong's institutions.

(Link: www.nsfsi.org )

Application Deadline:  8 December 2009  

APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 2009 Thanks to a grant from the European Commission, the European Union Center and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies are offering students summer grants of $5,000 to work on issues of European integration, broadly defined. Student grantees will conduct research leading to the writing of a paper on a relevant topic of their choosing. It is expected that during the spring and/or summer of 2010 the grantees, in consultation with faculty advisors of their choosing, will devote twelve weeks of full time work to their projects.

The UM/ULI Real Estate Forum and a scholarship competition is open to graduate students in architecture, business, engineering, law, natural resources, public policy, and urban planning.

Nomination must be done by a faculty member.  Nomination deadline is 15 October 2009, 5:00pm.In addition to the Graham nomination process, SNRE also has a couple of supplemental pieces related to the department match commitment and the budget that will need to be completed 1-2 weeks PRIO