These fellowships are intended to help defray costs associated with advanced, environmentally-oriented study leading to a master's or doctoral degree. The goals of the programs are to bolster the environmental generation of tomorrow, bridge to diverse communities, and boost excellent research and development that advance the protection of human health and the environment through education.

These goals are consistent with the immediate and long‑term mission of EPA, to protect human health and the environment. The STAR Fellowship program has proven to be beneficial to both the public and private sectors by providing a steady stream of well‑trained environmental specialists to meet society’s environmental challenges (National Research Council 2003). It has also provided new environmental research in engineering and in the physical, biological, health, and social sciences.

The Institute of International Education (IIE), on behalf of the U.S. State Department, administers the Student Fulbright Program, which makes fellowships available to over 1,500 U.S. students annually to study, conduct research, teach English or train in the creative arts in more than 155 countries worldwide. At U-M this competition is administered by the International Institute.

In today’s Asia, as societies undergo increasingly rapid change, people in the region face common challenges and issues. These include maintaining sustainable ecosystems and livelihoods for marginalized groups, enhancing cross-cultural understanding and coexistence, and ensuring peace and security. Given this situation, the question is how we can come together to make the region a more safe and caring place for everyone.

Answering this question requires each of us who lives in Asia—along with our neighbors inside and outside our communities and countries—to take action to solve our common problems, based on open and flexible networks. Such efforts will forge partnerships for upcoming generations and enrich the future of Asia. Our hope is that people living in the Asia of the future will find joy and hope in their daily lives, develop together, and learn from each other’s wisdom and experiences. This program seeks project proposals that can present new lifestyles and innovative social models for the sake of future generations.

Project proposals for the program must correspond to one of the following areas:   

(1) Fostering mutual understanding and social actors

(2) Enhancing sustainable communities

(3) Forging social systems to address local issues

The Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation's graduate research scholarship is designed to promote the education of exceptionally qualified students and provide research information to manage wildlife populations. The scientific breadth of the research scholarship program includes the following academic units: animal behavior, biology, botany, conservation education, ecology, mammalogy, ornithology, parasitology, range science, veterinary pathology, and wildlife sciences.
Proposals are ranked in the following order of descending priority:
1. Studies already in progress which need to be extended into or through the coming year.
2. New studies initiated on the Foundation's Refuge.
3. Proposals concerning problems or species on which we previously worked or in which we have special interest because of its relationship to our research. These normally are within a reasonable radius of our locality and most of them are restricted to south Texas.