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Graduate School

 

Fellowships for Underrepresented Minorities

 

American Indian Graduate Center:  AIGC was established in 1969 to assist American Indian college graduates who wanted to continue their education at the master's, doctorate and professional degree level and needed financial support

Ford Foundation Predoctoral, Dissertation, and Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities.  For selected PhD or ScD programs that lead to careers in teaching and research at the college or university level.

Gates Millennium Scholars  The Gates Millennium Scholars is aimed at increasing the number of low-income African Americans, Asian Pacific Americans, American Indians/Alaska Natives, and Hispanic Americans enrolling in and completing graduate degree programs.  Gates Millennium Scholars must be nominated.  Nominees who are graduate students must have been accepted into or be enrolled in a degree program in engineering, mathematics, science, education or library science. 

MALDEF Scholarships  The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund awards several law school scholarships to Latino students in their first, second or third year of law school, and communications scholarships to students pursuing a graduate or professional degree in the field of communications, including print and broadcast journalism or electronic communications. 
http://www.maldef.org/  

NM-AGEP Fellowship Funded by the National Science Foundation, the New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NM-AGEP) is an alliance of the three New Mexico doctoral-granting universities: the University of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech, and New Mexico State University. The purpose of the alliance is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in doctoral programs and who pursue careers as university professors in science, mathematics and engineering. NM-AGEP Fellows receive enhanced stipends and participate in professional development workshops and conferences. For additional information visit the NM-AGEP website at: http://www.unm.edu/%7egrad/agep/agep.html

National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC).  The NPSC offers a doctoral graduate fellowship program in the Physical Sciences which directs special emphasis toward the recruitment of underrepresented minority and female Physical Science students.  Fields of study:  Astronomy, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Materials Science, Mathematical Sciences, Physics, and Sub disciplines.  http://www.npsc.org/fellows/

The Ph.D. Project Universities/Funding:  Funding Opportunities for Minority Doctoral Students