More Fellowships Abroad: Next Stop, Europe!

By On March 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Economics, Engineering, Europe, Fellowships, France, Government, History, Italy, Law, Mathematics, Political Science, Science, Social Sciences / Liberal Arts, Technology

While on our ProFellow tour, I talked quite a bit about how much I love traveling and how I have used fellowships to fund my experiences abroad – including Germany, the U.K. and now New Zealand. Lucky for us, a few seminar participants provided leads on some great fellowships in Europe, ones that are going to go on my fellowship “bucket list”.

Tufts doctoral student Cecile Rouleau told me about The Chateaubriand Fellowship offered by the Embassy of France in the U.S. for doctoral students enrolled in American universities to conduct research in France for up to 10 months. The fellowship has two streams – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Humanities and Social Science. Make sure to look at these fellowships early: application deadlines fall between December  - February for research the following academic year.

At our seminar at the Harvard Kennedy School, Dr. Thomas Widrich told me about fellowships at the European University Institute in Italy, which offers fellowships for graduate study as well as the Max Weber Programme, the largest postdoctoral programme for young academics in the social sciences in Europe. The Programmes gives 42 fellowships a year for 1 or 2 years of research in the four disciplines of the EUI: Economics, History and Civilization, Law, and Political and Social Sciences.

Can’t wait to find more fellowships like these!

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Venture Firm Poaches Engineering Talent With a Fellows Program

By On February 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Computer Science, Engineering, Fellowships, Information Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Software Engineering

Venture Firm Kleiner Perkins is strategic in more ways than one. To attract top engineering talent, they’ve established the competitive KPCB Engineering Fellows Program. In this summer fellowship, engineering students spend a summer at Kleiner Perkins in the San Francisco Bay Area where they will be paid to develop their technical skills while being mentored by an engineering executive within the company. Fellows will also be invited to attend private events, such as talks by reps from Twitter, Groupon, Zynga and Chegg. They will also have the opportunity to network with other talented engineering students and technology luminaries at planned outings like a Giants game, camping in Big Basin, or a hackathon at Klout.

25 Fellows were just chosen from nearly 1000 applicants from over 100 universities. The universities the class of fellows are joining from are Franklin Olin, Rice, Princeton, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Brown, UCSD, University of Michigan, Duke, and University of Kentucky. According to TechCrunch, sample summer projects include working on an energy efficiency insight algorithm on Opower’s data platform, and developing graph analysis to provide data insight that will drive product designs at Klout.

Eligibility for the KPCB Engineering Fellows Program is open to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. universities who are studying computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics or fields related to software development. The next application deadline is likely to be October 2012.

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Albert Einstein Fellowship Takes Teachers to Congress

By On November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Education, Engineering, Fellowships, Mathematics, Public Policy, Science, Teaching, Technology

The Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program is a unique teaching fellowship for accomplished K-12 educators in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to serve in the national education arena.  Fellows spend eleven months working in a Federal agency or Congress, bringing their extensive knowledge and experience in the classroom to education program and/or education policy efforts.

One of this year’s Fellows, Mike Kennedy, has returned to his home school, Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, IL , with a new perspective.

“I’m not going to lie — it was awesome,” said Kennedy, physics teacher and boys’ track and field head coach. “I worked in the Department of Energy, and it was a perfect fit for me. It would be really hard to pick the highlights of the year, but one of the best things was being able to work with the other fellows. They are absolutely phenomenal people who are really trying to make sure that education is pushed forward.” Read more.

Albert Einstein Fellows help implement and evaluate national education programs, draft legislation, and initiate collaboration among Federal agencies, among other things. Applications for next year’s fellowships are due January 5, 2012.

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$300,000 Pledged to American Indian College Fund for Tribal College Faculty Fellowships

By On September 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Education, Engineering, Fellowships, Mathematics, Science, Technology

The American Indian College Fund is set to expand the  Sloan STEM Leadership Fellowship Program thanks to a generous infusion of grant funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.  Over the next three years, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation will grant a total of $300,000 to expand the Sloan STEM Leadership Fellowship Program, which provides funding to tribal college faculty currently pursuing masters or doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).  The goal of the program is to enhance the educational atmosphere at the tribal colleges.

“Completion of a graduate degree is a key step in faculty development,” said Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program Director Elizabeth S. Boylan. “The Foundation is excited to partner with the American Indian College Fund in its important efforts to support promising STEM faculty at tribal colleges, efforts that will, in turn, provide benefits to both the faculty and their students.” Read more

This grant will award two Sloan STEM Leadership Fellowship awards annually, for a total of six awards over the next three years.

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