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Scholarships, Fellowships, Internships & Other Opportunities

This page contains information on a variety of scholarship, fellowship, internship and other educational opportunities that can supplement your educational experience. The upper list is a general listing of scholarship and fellowship opportunities. The rest of the listings are then arranged alphabetically according to subject area.

Visit the National Association of Fellowship Advisors website for more opportunities

http://www.nafadvisors.org/scholarships.php

For Undergraduate Education or Co-Curricular Opportunities

Summer Internship Program Deadline: January 24
Internship for College Students
Roswell L. Gilpatric Internship
The Cloisters Summer Internship Program for College Students (for freshmen and sophomores)
The Jack and Lewis Rudin Internships
Volunteer Internships (unpaid, but may be for credit) Deadline: one month before start date

  • Phi Eta Sigma Scholarships (awards available for undergraduates and graduates; must be a member of Phi Eta Sigma; preference given to those in leadership positions)
    http://www.phietasigma.org
    Deadline: March 1
  • Rotary Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarships
    Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships
    Multi-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships
    Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarships (for studying languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish.)
    http://www.rotary.org/en/StudentsAndYouth/EducationalPrograms/AmbassadorialScholarships/Pages/ridefault.aspx
    Deadlines: application available in Nov. 2007 for 2009 Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarships; other deadlines vary--contact the Rotary Club in your home town.
  • Olive W. Garvey Fellowships
    Scholarships for students--awarded for the best essay on on the meaning and significance of economic and personal liberty.
    http://www.independent.org/students/essay/
    Deadline: May 1
  • David W. Miller Award for Student Journalists (prize for a piece previously published in campus publication on a new trend, discovery, or theory; an important scholarly debate; an issue with both scholarly and public-policy implications; a researcher who is as interesting as his or her scholarship. Opinion essay, personal columns, scholarly or research papers, and articles that present the author's own research findings are ineligible.
    http://chronicle.com/help/milleraward.htm
    Deadline: June

For Graduate Education or Post-Graduate Experience

**apply in your senior year for these opportunities**

  • The American - Scandinavian Foundation Awards for Study in Scandinavia 2004 - 2005
    Grants and Fellowships for Advanced Study or Research in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
    http://www.amscan.org/fellowship.html
    Deadline: Nov. 1
  • The Coro Fellows Program (nine-month program working in a variety of corporate and community settings)
    http://www.coro.org/how_to_apply/how_to_apply.html
    Deadline: November 15, but there are a variety of options and locations, this is the earliest deadline
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Internship Opportunities
    http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_internship.asp

    Summer Internship Program Deadline: January 20
    Internship for College Students
    Roswell L. Gilpatric Internship
    Six-Month Internship
    Lifchez/Stronach Curatorial Internship
    Internship in Educational Media

    Volunteer Internships (unpaid, but may be for credit)
    Deadline: one month before start date
  • Samuel Huntington Public Service Award (for graduating seniors)
    http://www.nationalgridus.com/commitment/d4-1_award.asp
    Deadline: February 13

 

Alphabetical By Subject Area

Biology

Undergraduate Work

 Graduate Work 

Business

Undergraduate Work

 

Graduate Work

Chemistry

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Classics

Graduate Work 

Journalism

Undergraduate Work

Education

Undergraduate Work

  • Conservation Career Development Intern Program
    http://www.sca-inc.org/
    Deadlines: Spring Program –November; Summer Program –March; Fall Program –July; Winter Program--August
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholars Program/Summer Internship in Dept. of Education
    (for continuing students-must be enrolled in the year following the summer internship)
    http://studentaid.ed.gov/PORTALSWebApp/students/english/King_Scholars_Program.jsp
    Deadline: January (2005 application deadline/program is not up on the web yet)
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship (rising juniors apply)
    http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/Hollings_info.html                                                       
    Deadline: Februaury 9

Graduate Work

  • James Madison Fellowship Junior Fellowships (for MAT/M.Ed in history, government, political science)
    http://www.jamesmadison.com
    Deadline: March 1

English

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Fine Arts

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

History

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Mathematics and Computer Information Systems

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

  • Government Finance Officers Association of the United States --Minorities in Government Finance Scholarship
    http://www.gfoa.org . Look under the “Scholarships” link
    Deadline: February 8 

Modern Foreign Languages

Undergraduate Work

  • Capital Semester at Georgetown University of The Fund for American Studies
    http://www.dcinternships.org
    Deadline for Spring semester: Nov. 15; Aug. 1 for Fall (guestimate—not yet given on website)

Graduate Work 

Music

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Philosophy

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Physics

Undergraduate

Graduate Work

  • The Hertz Foundation's Graduate Fellowship Awards
    http://hertzfndn.org
    Deadline:Oct. 28
  • Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Program (aerospace sciences-for women)
    http://www.zonta.org/
    Deadline: November 15

Political Sciences

Undergraduate Work


  • Louisiana Center for Women and Government Internship Program
    http://www.nicholls.edu/lcwg/internship-program/
    Deadlines: for Spring- November 9, 2007; for Summer-March 2008; for Fall-April 2008.
  • Capital Semester at Georgetown University of The Fund for American Studies
    http://www.dcinternships.org
    Deadline for Spring semester: Nov. 15; Aug. 1 for Fall (guestimate—not yet given on website)
  • Conservation Career Development Program Diversity Intern Program
    http://www.sca-inc.org/
    Deadlines: Spring Program –November; Summer Program –March; Fall Program –July; Winter Program--August
  • AT&T Undergraduate Research Program (for women and minorities)
    http://www.research.att.com/academic/
    Deadline: Dec. 1
  • Humane Studies Fellowship Program
    http://www.theihs.org/scholarships/id.775/default.asp
    Deadline: December 31
  • Government Finance Officers Association of the United States --Minorities in Government Finance Scholarship
    http://www.gfoa.org. Look under the “Scholarships” link
    Deadline:February 8
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship (rising juniors apply)
    http://www.oesd.noaa.gov/Hollings_info.html                                                         
    Deadline: February 9

Graduate Work

Psychology

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Religious Studies

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Sociology

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

Theatre

Graduate Work

Opportunities Especially For Women

Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work

  • Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship Program (aerospace sciences)
    http://www.zonta.org
    Deadline: November 15

Opportunities Especially for Minorities

 Undergraduate Work

Graduate Work