Research, Funding and Awards

  • Switzer Fellowship Program

    Switzer Fellowship Program - Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation         

                   

                     

    The Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation offers up to 20 California and New England graduate students yearlong fellowships to support environmental improvement. Fellowships are offered for graduate studies directed toward improving environmental quality: 10 in California and 10 in New England. Fellows will come from different educational backgrounds, yet all will be expected to take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing the environmental field. The Foundation wants to see fellows using their graduate education in their professional career.

    All Fellowship awardees are required to attend 2 weekend-long retreats during their Fellowship year.

     

    DISCIPLINES

    Open to all fields. Environmental fields including environmental policy, economics, conservation, public health, journalism, architecture, environmental justice, business and law as well as traditional environmental sciences including biology, chemistry, and engineering.

     

    ACADEMIC LEVEL

    Current Graduate Students.

     

    CITIZENSHIP

    Open only to U.S. citizens.

     

    ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

    Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited graduate institution ONLY in California or New England states. Master's degree candidates must have completed at least one semester or quarter of course work to apply, and be seeking the Master's as their terminal degree. Master's degree students planning to pursue a PhD are advised to wait until they are in their PhD program to apply. Applicants at the PhD level must plan to have completed at least 3 years of doctoral work, or plan to have passed their qualifying exams within the next year. Essay. 2 letters of recommendation. Resume. Transcripts. Outline. Financial need. Preference for PhD candidates with a clear research and career focus. Preference for individuals who have some professional or work experience between undergraduate and graduate study.

     

    STIPEND

    Stipend of $15,000.

     

    DEADLINES

    1/9/2017        

     

     

    CONTACT

    Erin Lloyd, Fellowship Program Officer      

    The Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation           

    P.O. Box 293

    Belfast, ME  04915

     

    (207) 338-5654

    erin@switzernetwork.org

                     

                     

    More Information >> <http://switzernetwork.org/become-fellow>       

                     

    For more information, contact: Rowena Grainger at rowena.grainger@uconn.edu

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