USC GRADUATE SCHOOL FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION 2007-2008

The following awards are being administered by the Graduate School. All applications require nomination by both the department and the unit or school dean.

Consideration for these fellowship is contingent upon: (1) a completed application for admission to a Ph.D. program submitted to the university (for incoming students only), (2) nomination by both the department and the unit or school dean.

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1. ALL-UNIVERSITY PREDOCTORAL DIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS

Excellent incoming Ph.D. applicants who will serve to increase the representation of underrepresented groups as doctoral students in their disciplines in U.S. universities are eligible for the All-University Predoctoral Diversity Fellowship. Preference will be given to those who are considering pursuing a career in academic teaching. The All-University Predoctoral Diversity Fellowships will provide students with a stipend of $25,000, up to 24 units of tuition, payment of mandatory fees, and student health and dental insurance. Fellowships will be combined with matching funds from individual schools to provide four or more years of funding toward the Ph.D.

2. PROVOST GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS

Excellent incoming Ph.D. applicants are eligible to apply. Preference will be given to those who are considering pursuing a career in academic research and teaching. Provost Graduate Fellowships will provide students with a stipend of $25,000, up to 24 units of tuition, payment of mandatory fees, and student health and dental insurance. Fellowships will be combined with matching funds from individual schools to provide four or more years of funding toward the Ph.D.

3. CHEN FELLOWSHIP

Entering graduate students are eligible for this fellowship if they are residents of Fuzhou, China; or descendants of alumni of Fukien Christian University; or relatives of the Chens.

4. MYRONIS SCHOLARSHIP

Preference will be given to entering or continuing students who are Greek citizens pursuing degrees at USC in medicine, engineering, chemistry or physics.

5. JOHN STAUFFER FELLOWSHIP

Students in the physical sciences are eligible for this award at any stage of their graduate studies. If there is no qualified candiate among those academic areas, then any student in the natural sciences and engineering will be considered.

6. ANNA BING ARNOLD AND LOUIS D. BEAUMONT FELLOWSHIPS

One of each fellowship is available to students in the humanities at any stage of their graduate studies.

7. OAKLEY FELLOWSHIP

All students nominated by their department will be considered for the one year Oakley fellowships.

8. MORKOVIN FELLOWSHIP

One award is available to a student who has passed his/her qualifying exam and is pursuing research in one of the following areas; language development, linguistics, audiology, perceptual and communicative aspects of behavior and personality development, and allied fields. Research that is especially encouraged is language acquisition by auditorily handicapped preschool children and young children whose cognitive abilities are impaired by poverty, cultural conflict or linguistic interference.