[QSB-grads] Fwd: Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship Opportunity

[Miriam Barlow]

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From: Miriam Barlow <miriam.barlow at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 3:44 PM
Subject: Graduate Dean's Dissertation Fellowship Opportunity
To: "UCM QSB Faculty (qsb-faculty at lists.ucmerced.edu)" <
qsb-faculty at lists.ucmerced.edu>


Dear QSB Faculty,

I am pleased to share that, based on the size of our program and number of
students at or near finishing stage, QSB has been awarded two Graduate
 Dean’s DissertationFellowships to be disbursed in Spring 2018 or in “Late
Spring” (Summer) 2018. The Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (GDDF)
program is intended for students in their final semester/term of
graduate school,
providing them time to focus solely on completion of the dissertation. This
award should help enhance awardees’ qualifications as candidates for
university faculty teaching and research appointments, for postdoctoral
appointments, and for research positions outside the academy.

These fellowships are open to all QSB doctoral students who are advanced to
candidacy at the time of completing their application, and who are one
semester/term away from completion of their degree. All QSB doctoral
graduate students are eligible for this award regardless of United States
citizenship. Awardees must have a GPA of 3.0 or above and be enrolled in 12
units during Spring 2017. A student who has previously received funding for
completing their dissertation work is ineligible to receive a GDDF.
Preference will be given to applicants who have progressed according to
QSB’s expected time-to-degree, which is 5.4 years. Award recipients are
expected to file their dissertation by the end of the award period. Fellows
who have not filed their dissertations by the end of the award period are
NOT eligible for any further financial support from the Graduate Division
or from QSB. Fellows are prohibited from being employed during the award
period. The value of the fellowship is $2750/mo for 4 months plus tuition
and fees but not campus based fees during the Spring, and $7763 as a lump
sum during “Late Spring” for the summer term.

If you have a QSB doctoral student who meets these eligibility requirements
and is prepared to defend in Spring or Summer, please nominate them by
sending their CV and an optional brief narrative as a response to this
email by midnight on Friday, September 8. Please also state the term of
expected date of filing of the thesis (Spring or Summer). We will rank
candidates according to academic performance, time in the program, and
need, with a preference for Spring awardees (because of greater value of
the fellowship to both students and faculty during the busy academic term,
and the greater benefit to the program in accelerating time to degree).

Thank you and kind regards,

-- 
Miriam Barlow
Associate Professor
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174 <(209)%20228-4174>
miriam.barlow at gmail.com




-- 
Miriam Barlow
Associate Professor
University of California, Merced

209.228.4174
miriam.barlow at gmail.com
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