Applications for student research stipends

Applications for student research stipends  You do not have to be doing STEM research! — Applications for the R.J. McElroy Student/Faculty Research Fund and Wartburg Undergraduate Research Fellowships are now available. 

• R.J. McElroy Student/Faculty Research Fund — Email Roy Ventullo, director of undergraduate research, at roy.ventullo@wartburg.edu for an application and cover page. The cover page and proposal are due today, April 14, to Sally Malcolm in the Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty Office. All majors are eligible. Applications require dual authorship by proposing student or teams of students (two or more) and a sponsoring faculty member. Research in credit courses is not eligible. The research fund will cover any expenses necessary to support activities defined in a credible research proposal (supplies, travel, student stipends). Maximum award will be $2,000.
• Wartburg Undergraduate Research Fellowship — Applications are available online, and the deadline is today, April 14. All majors are eligible. Research in credit courses is not eligible. Applications require authorship by the proposing student and a letter of support by the sponsoring faculty member. It may include student stipends, supplies, equipment, or travel for research, with a limit of $2,500 per student in summer and $1,000 during academic year. More information is available online.

2014-2015 ISI Graduate Fellowships

Dear Mariah, Do you know a student who needs financial support for graduate studies? The Intercollegiate Studies Institute is now accepting applications for its 2014-2015 Graduate Fellowships Programs. Current graduate students and those who plan to pursue graduate studies in the upcoming year with the intention to teach at the university level are eligible to apply. ISI offers the Weaver Fellowship, the Western Civilization Fellowship, the Renshaw Fellowship, and the Salvatori Fellowship. The Weaver Fellowship supports academics dedicated to liberal education broadly considered.  The Weaver Fellowship pays tuition, a stipend of $5,000, and a $1,000 book award. The Western Civilization Fellowship provides each recipient $20,000 for dissertation work related to the intellectual, economic, political, social, or religious heritage of Western Civilization. The Salvatori Fellowship is designed for graduate students who are exploring both the principles of the Founding Fathers and the culture that formed their convictions and ideals. The Fellowship provides $10,000 to each recipient for graduate work related to the American Founding. The Renshaw Fellowship awards each recipient $12,000 toward doctoral study in education that will influence the discipline with the ideas, values, and institutions that are fundamental to America's Western tradition. I encourage you to consider applying; if you are not currently a graduate student, please let qualified graduate students know about these opportunities. For more information about this year's fellowships you can email fellowships@isi.org or visit isifellowships.org. The postmark deadline for the graduate fellowship application materials is January 16, 2014. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions about our fellowships or any of ISI's other programs. My phone number is (302) 524-6131. Sincerely, Joel Boersma Academic Program Officer

Scholarships for doctoral studies in Science and Religion to work under the direction of Prof Alister McGrath

All, 

I am delighted to pass along news of an important and exciting new opportunity for your most able students interested in pursuing graduate studies in science and religion and able to apply for a DPhil.  As you may have heard, Professor Alister McGrath has just been appointed to be the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University.  Some of you may know that Alister has been a close friend and colleague of SCIO and the CCCU joining together to offer multiple summer programmes in science and religion, welcoming SCIO to Wycliffe Hall when he was its principal, and working closely with me in establishing the Scholars' Semester in Oxford. We look forward to Alister returning full time to Oxford to take this post in April (most recently he has held a professorship at Kings College, London).

The Theology Faculty at Oxford has just released the following statement and information on the five new scholarships.

Following the appointment of Professor Alister McGrath as the new Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University, the Oxford Faculty of Theology and Religion is delighted to announce that there will be up to five fully-funded three-year studentships available for candidates studying for doctorates in the field of Science and Religion. Three of the studentships in Science and Religion will cover university and college fees at the "overseas" rate. Full details of the studentships and the application process can be found here:

http://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/student-funding/graduate2/graduate-studentships.html

[NB: UK to US translation——Studentship = Graduate Fellowship/Scholarship]

Yours, Stan