September 21, 2023
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The following is being sent on behalf of Michael Miller, Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education
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Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to ask for your continued assistance in sharing information on national scholarship opportunities for UCSB’s top undergraduate students, in all colleges. In particular, we wish to highlight the following upcoming event:
UCSB National Scholarships General Info Webinar
10:00 AM PDT, October 12, 2023
Join virtually: Zoom Meeting Link
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Learn what defines a nationally competitive scholarship, hear from recent undergrad recipients, and get tips for successful merit-based scholarship applications.
Faculty participation is essential to our students’ success in national scholarship competitions. We hope that you will continue to ask members of your department to review these unique scholarships and fellowships, and encourage our most outstanding and qualified students to apply.
Faculty efforts in identifying and supporting stellar applicants were critical in UCSB's success in recent competitions, including our Churchill Scholarship recipient in 2020-21, Goldwater recipients in 2021-22 and 2022-23, and our recent Boren Scholarship recipient. Previous recipients of nationally competitive scholarships can be found on our website.
Nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships of note with deadlines in the coming year include:
- Beinecke Scholarship (graduate school in HFA/SS disciplines)
- Boren Scholarship (language study abroad in areas of critical need)
- Carnegie Junior Fellows Program (international policy internship in DC)
- Fulbright Student Program (English Teaching Assistant or Open Study/Research programs abroad)
- Goldwater Scholarship (current undergraduate STEM research)
- Churchill Scholarship (graduate level STEM research at Cambridge, UK)
- Marshall Scholarship (graduate study in the UK)
- Mitchell Scholarship (graduate study in Ireland)
- Knight-Hennessey Scholarship (graduate study and global leadership program at Stanford)
- Strauss Scholarship (public service project funding and scholarship support)
- Truman Scholarship (graduate/professional school funding for undergrads on a public service career path)
- Udall Scholarship (support for current undergrads in environment/conservancy, native health care, or tribal policy)
Our successes have taught us that competitive applications require months of preparation, so it is critical for students to plan far in advance. Madeleine Sorapure, Associate Dean and Interim Chair of the National Scholarships Faculty Selection Committee, and Nick Alward-Saxon, Executive Assistant to the AVC, are available to assist student applicants and coordinate campus endorsements.
Students who are interested in applying for a national scholarship should make an appointment to discuss by writing to: scholarships@ltsc.ucsb.edu
For detailed information on the many nationally competitive scholarships that require campus endorsement, see our website: http://duels.ucsb.edu/academics/scholarships/endorsement
We look forward to collaborating and helping our students to achieve even greater success in nationally competitive scholarship and fellowships.
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Michael Miller
Dean of Undergraduate Education, College of Letters & Science
Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education
Glenn Beltz
Associate Dean
College of Engineering
Timothy Sherwood
Interim Dean
College of Creative Studies