I recently had the opportunity to serve as a peer reviewer for a national fellowship competition. It was an interesting and even enjoyable experience and in this post, I would like to share with you some of the things that I learned while serving as a reviewer. Every review process is different and there […]
The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program: Strategies for Writing a Competitive Application
The Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Program is a unique opportunity to apply to spend two years working with a public or private organization committed to advancing the public good and to hiring recent humanities PhDs. Dr. John Paul Christy, Program Director for Public Programs at the ACLS, recently visited campus to talk about the program and […]
A Fellowship to Do Some Cool Things
We typically write about fellowship and grant opportunities that are designed to support you and to advance your work on a scholarly project. In this post, I want to share with you the benefits of a different type of fellowship: one that will support you as you gain experience working in a profession. The Mellon/ACLS […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: Reflections on the Writing Process
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the fourth and final installment of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation Fellows to discuss […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: Advice for Applicants
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the third of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation Fellows to discuss their advice to future […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: What It Means to Be A Ford Fellow
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the second of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation Fellows to discuss what it means to be […]
Ford Fellows Roundtable: What is Diversity?
Series note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to share with you the first of our four Ford Fellow Roundtables. The Ford Foundation, through its fellowship programs seeks to increase diversity in our nation’s colleges and universities. I recently sat down with our current Ford Dissertation […]
Meet Our Ford Fellows: Jasmin Young
Series Note: Building on our recent profiling of the 2016-2017 Ford Fellows at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, we are pleased to launch a new feature to our blog, video posts by our successful students who will share with you their thoughts and perspectives on applying for fellowships and grants and the impact that the awards have […]
What’s New on the GradFund Website?
We’ve been developing a number of new and exciting features for the GradFund website. With this post, I would like to profile two new features: Ask a Fellowship Advisor and GradFund Conversations Forums. Both of these features expand our capacity to interact with you on-line to share information, advice and answer questions. Ask a Fellowship […]
Top Five GradFund Myths
GradFund services are very popular with Rutgers graduate students. We help students across the disciplines identify and apply for extramural, honorific fellowships and grants. Each year we work one-on-one with over 400 students And yet, when I speak with graduate students, I am surprised by how many misconceptions there are. So, in this post, I […]