Scholarships

Samvid Scholars will empower future leaders and changemakers by providing financial support for graduate study as well as leadership training. Scholars receive up to $50K for tuition and fees each year for two years of study in a graduate program

Stipend to work on projects during the program that have a direct impact on City operations. They span a broad range of City functions, involving analytical, planning, and operational work in the Arts Commission, Public Utilities Commission, Recreation and Park, Airport, Municipal Transportation Agency, Controller, Public Works, and other City agencies. In addition to hands-on work experience and comprehensive professional development, Fellows will be paired with experienced mentors in City government.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have created the Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Summer Institute to encourage minority students and others with an interest in African-American, African and African Diasporan Studies to pursue PhDs in the humanities. The program, which is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents, offers a seven-week session for ten rising seniors, which mixes seminars and research. It invites students to explore how the past is influencing the present and how the present can shape the future. Institute fellows will explore a variety of disciplines (including history, literature, arts, religion, and cultural studies) and historical periods. The Fellows will have an opportunity to examine, among others, questions about identity, culture, arts, gender, migrations, mental health, and criminal justice, and reflect on how they will affect the future.

One-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing

Fellows gain first-hand policymaking experience as they spend one year on the staff of federal, state, local, or non-governmental environmental, natural resource, oil and gas, and public health agencies in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Research interns spend 10 weeks (summer term) or 16 weeks (semester term) at a DOE laboratory engaged in a research project under the guidance of a laboratory scientist or engineer.

Opportunity, supported by salary, to work as a junior staff member at a organization of the student’s choice

The purpose of this funding is to support the language-learning needs of very promising young scholars with serious research interests in Southeast Asia. This funding is designed to ensure that promising young scholars who want to pursue research and careers involving Southeast Asian Studies will do so with the benefit of rigorous language training at SEASSI–an eight-week intensive language training program hosted at UW-Madison.

The program is designed to connect interested, talented undergraduate students with local leadership in order to obtain meaningful on-the-job experience with a local agency or organization while providing a unique learning opportunity to allow the SECU Public Fellows Intern to give back to his or her community.

scholarship to an eligible student who has been a caregiver for a senior friend or relative.