Opportunities

  • Do You Advise a Potential Rhodes Scholar?

    As Honors advisors, you see the best, brightest, and most accomplished students majoring in your discipline.  Do you or one of your colleagues advise a potential Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, or Gates-Cambridge Scholar

    The Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) is committed to helping current undergraduates and recent alumni develop their scholarly, intellectual, and personal interests by promoting relevant, nationally-competitive scholarships and fellowships.  The office is always looking for students who have a sense of purpose, who can articulate what they aim to accomplish with their lives, and who have begun to take the first steps necessary to reach those goals. 

    Right now, we are seeking truly outstanding students who might be interested in pursuing graduate study in the UK or Ireland through one of the programs listed above. 

    A student’s grades are important, and most nationally-competitive scholarships and fellowships require students to have at least a 3.7 GPA.  But grades shouldn’t be your foremost consideration when you recommend someone to our office. It is more important that students align with a particular fellowship’s mission and are able to demonstrate passion and commitment to the things about which they care the most.  That’s where we come in.  We can help them put the pieces of this puzzle together.

    If you can think of a student or students who should be encouraged to learn more about these prestigious opportunities, please send their names to ONSF Director Vin Moscardelli (vin.moscardelli@uconn.edu).  We will then invite the students to our office to discuss their academic and extracurricular interests, and to identify fellowships that might align with these interests.  Research shows that students are the most responsive when they know a faculty or staff member recommended or referred them to our office.

    Deadlines:  ONSF is always happy to hear about your best students, but UConn nominates current students for the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, or Gates-Cambridge Scholarships around the beginning of the fall semester of their senior year.  So for class of 2020 students, we’d really like the chance to touch base with them before they leave town.

    For more information, contact: Vin Moscardelli at vin.moscardelli@uconn.edu

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