Other UO Fellowships and Awards for Graduate Students

Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) Fellowship

The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies is offering awards of up to $500 in support of the professional activities of UO graduate students studying Asia. Awards will be made for the following purposes: travel to conferences to present papers, travel to library, museum, and archival collections; and expenses related to book and article production and publication.  Application instructions are found on the CAPS website.

Center for Intercultural Dialogue

The Center for Intercultural Dialogue supports and promotes interdisciplinary approaches to transcultural studies and interreligious dialogue as a means to promote peace. The Center works to engage students, faculty and community members in efforts to build a global community through education and dialogue that transcends cultural, religious, and geopolitical boundaries.  The Center for Intercultural Dialogue offers the following awards:

• Research Interest Groups with Kickstarter Grants
• Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research Paper Awards: nominated by faculty.
• Small Project Grants for Faculty and Graduate Students
• UNESCO Undergraduate and Graduate Internship

Center for the Study of Women in Society Graduate Awards (CSWS)

For graduate students in a range of disciplines whose area of specialization involves research or creative work on women and gender.

• Travel Grants, Amount: Up to $200.
• Research Grants, Amount: Up to $2500.
• Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Amount: $12,000 plus tuition and fees waiver.
• Laurel Research Award, Amount: $2250 (plus up to $250 for mentor).

Center on Diversity and Community(CoDaC) Summer Research Awards

These awards support the scholarly work of graduate students throughout the University. This year, CoDaC, with support from the Graduate School and the Center for the Study of Women in Society, will offer eleven awards of $1,000 each for outstanding proposals on topics directly related to the Center's mission. For information about the program and the request for proposals can be found on the CoDaC website.

College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) Scholarships

The following awards are available:

• Mary Chambers Brockelbank Endowed Assistance Fund, Amount: $500-$1,000 to students of limited means
• Risa Palm Graduate Fellowship, Amount: $1,000-$2,000 one or more graduate students
• John and Naomi Luvaas Graduate Fellowship, Amount: $1,000-$2,000
• Everett D. Monte Scholarship, financial need and outstanding academic performance, Amount: $1,000 to $5,000
• Charles A. Reed Graduate Fellowship, Amount: $1,0000 - $2,000
• Henry V. Howe Scholarship, Amount: up to $5,000 for science majors

Diversity Excellence Scholarships

These are tuition remission scholarship with awards ranging from partial to full tuition and fee waivers. This program recognizes undergraduate and graduate students who enhance the educational experience of all students by sharing diverse cultural experiences. These scholarships are an integral part of the University's effort to meet the educational diversity need if its students, and they complement other programs in the UO Campus Diversity Plan.

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships

The University of Oregon's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) has been awarded a federal grant for Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for academic years 2010-2014. The FLAS program provides tuition and a generous stipend for UO students who are US citizens or permanent residents doing advanced language training in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean in combination with area studies, international studies, or international aspects of professional studies. Application instructions are found on the CAPS website.

Oregon Humanities Center Graduate Fellowships

This program is intended to stimulate humanities research and support graduate education by providing doctoral students with resources to assist with their research and the completion of their dissertations. Advanced doctoral students from any department are eligible.

The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies Graduate Student Summer Research Grants

The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies distributes small grants to University of Oregon faculty, students and community groups in order to encourage existing projects and collaborations, and to facilitate new ones. CLLAS offers summer research support to graduate students whose work is interdisciplinary and in the area of Latino/a and Latin American Studies, particularly work that has the potential to put Latino/a and Latin American Studies in conversation.

Wayne Morse Dissertation Fellowship

In 2012-13, up to two graduate students in the dissertation research/writing phase of their program will receive a stipend of $3,000 as well as a tuition waiver for the term. The subject of the dissertation must be related to either the current Wayne Morse Center theme of inquiry, From Wall Street to Main Street: Capitalism and the Common Good, or the Wayne Morse Center program on Politics and Public Policy.  Follow the link above for more information on the fellowship and both of these programs.