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UVM students Erick Crockenberg (Udall Honorable Mention, 2013) and Tad Cooke (Udall Scholar, 2012 and Truman Finalist, 2013) discuss their plans to repurpose the Moran Plant located on Burlington’s picturesque […]

Nursing major Jeanelle Achee, a UVM junior, has been named a 2013 Harry S. Truman Scholar. She is one of 62 students this year to win the highly competitive national award, which recognizes those who want to make […]

UVM student Erick Crockenberg ’14 has received Honorable Mention status in the 2013 Udall Scholarship competition. This nationally competitive scholarship acknowledges sophomores and juniors who have been […]

Doctoral student Allyson Degrassi in UVM’s department of biology has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Award. This lucrative and prestigious fellowship is awarded to […]

Honors College student and civil engineering major Ben Rouleau ’14 has been awarded a 2013 Goldwater Scholarship. He is one of 271 students nationwide who has received this highly competitive and prestigious […]

University of Vermont alumna Allison Carragher ’06 has been named a Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellow. Carragher is the first UVM student to receive this highly competitive and prestigious […]

Three University of Vermont students have been awarded prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarships. The Gilman is a nationally competitive award given to accomplished students with financial need who wish to study […]

Erin Kerr has been awarded a Boren Scholarship to study in Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo during the 2012-2013 academic year. Kerr is an Honors College sophomore and geography major, and she will participate in the Peace and Conflict Studies program through the School of International Training in the spring of 2013. Two other UVM students were [...]

Three University of Vermont students and a recent alumnus have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program Scholarships. The prestigious awards are fully funded, year-long academic fellowships which enable seniors, recent graduates and graduate students who have an outstanding academic record to live abroad and conduct research or teach English as…[Read more]

UVM student Tad Cooke’ 14 has been named a 2012 Udall Scholar. This nationally competitive scholarship acknowledges sophomores and juniors who have been outstanding leaders and who have demonstrated excellence in the classroom. It is the most prestigious undergraduate award available for students who are pursuing careers focused on environmental…[Read more]

Even the smallest task seemed insurmountable to 2012 Truman Scholar Brent Reader when he returned home from a tour in Iraq as an Army combat medic. Just a trip to the store where he’d overhear everyday, trivial conversations was insufferable for the veteran as he fended off images from the war, including the trauma of [...]

Honors College student and biochemistry major Susan Leggett, a UVM junior, has been awarded a 2012 Goldwater Scholarship, a highly competitive award that recognizes sophomores and juniors who have done outstanding work in science, math, or engineering and seek to become researchers and leaders in their disciplines. In addition, mechanical…[Read more]

Social work major Brent Reader, a UVM junior, has been named a 2012 Truman Scholar. He is one of 65 students this year to win the highly competitive national award, which recognizes those who want to make a difference in public service and “provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship [...]

Ann Fiedler ’12, a mechanical engineering major and an Honors College student, has been awarded a 2011 Science, Mathematics & Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship from the Department of Defense. The SMART Scholarship for Service program supports students who demonstrate outstanding ability and special aptitude pursuing degrees in…[Read more]

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Three University of Vermont students were awarded Fulbright Scholarships for the 2010-2011 year. Meet Matthew Greene 10, Dzeneta Karabegovic ’08 and Emily Lubell ’09 and hear about their projects in the video lbelow (also available on the front page of the fellowships site). These three will be back throughout the next year to offer application [...]

Joanie Stultz, UVM sophomore, has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2010 Morris K. Udall Scholarship competition. This national award recognizes sophomores and juniors who are pursuing careers focused on environmental or Native American issues, and she is among 80 scholars and 50 honorable mentions to be acknowledged. Stultz, an…[Read more]

The new campus deadlines for the Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Udall, Truman and all other national scholarships requiring a university endorsement have been announced on the Fellowships website. See the new deadlines here. Students interested in applying for any of the scholarships with fall deadlines are strongly encouraged to touch base with…[Read more]

All Boren Scholarship Interviews will be conducted by Honors College Associate Dean Lisa Schnell on Monday, January 25. Below is your interview time. All interviews will take place in her office in the Honors College Office Suite in University Heights North. If you have a conflict with your scheduled interview time that cannot be resolved, [...]

Dear Truman Scholarship Applicants, Below is information you will need for final advising and submitting your Truman Scholarship application for the campus deadline on January 15, 2010. The application will be submitted online. You’ve already been registered in the Truman online application system where you will find your application materials; if…[Read more]

Below are the instructions for submitting your Goldwater Scholarship application for the University of Vermont campus competition. In addition to submitting your application, we recommend that you keep an extra copy of your application for your own records. By noon on Friday, December 11: Click “submit” on your online application. If you are…[Read more]

Educated Nation has come up with a list of 50 Interview Questions (and how to answer them). Most of these questions are relevant for job interviews, but this underscores the importance of anticipating interview questions and figuring out how to answer them BEFORE you go into any kind of interview, be it a fellowship interview, a [...]

The University of Vermont campus deadline for Fulbright Grants has come and gone. The next stage of the process will be a campus review of the applications, which includes an interview with the University of Vermont Fellowships Committee. It’s important to prepare in advance for the on-campus interview; get plenty of rest the night before [...]

As more students stop by the Fellowships Office asking for feedback on their third, fourth, or fifth Fulbright application draft, more students are getting feedback that says something like, “Clean it up and you’re good to go.” There’s good news and bad news when you get that comment: The good news is you’re only one [...]