Usa: Penn Predoctoral Fellowships For Excellence Through Diversity

Overview

The University of Pennsylvania invites applications for the kickoff Predoctoral Fellowships for Excellence Through Diversity. This computer program is designed to render mentorship together with access to Penn’s resources for doctoral students inward the humanities or social sciences, enrolled at universities other than Penn, every bit they consummate their dissertations. It supports scholars from a broad hit of backgrounds, who tin contribute to the multifariousness of Penn together with the higher pedagogy community. The Fellowships back upwards graduate students inward the finally stages of dissertation query or writing for residency at Penn for an academic year, commonly September through August. They offering an chance for scholars who programme on an academic career to cause got wages of Penn programs together with faculty expertise together with to cause got access to libraries together with the resources of the Philadelphia region. Each scholar volition endure hosted past times a subdivision or computer program together with assigned a faculty mentor. Recipients tin endure inward the phase of either dissertation query or writing.

The Fellowship provides a stipend of $27,000, wellness together with dental insurance, purpose space, library privileges, together with a $3,000 query together with go fund. The application deadline is Apr 15, 2012.

This year, iii of these novel Fellowships volition endure awarded. Candidates must:


• Be a the U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

• Be enrolled inward a PhD computer program inward the humanities or social sciences, at an establishment other than Penn, cause got passed their PhD qualifying examinations, together with cause got an approved dissertation proposal.

• Be a educatee of particular academic merit who belongs to a grouping underrepresented inward higher education;  and/or comes from a socially, culturally, or educationally disadvantaged background or cause got faced other meaning personal obstacles; and/or pursues academic query on cultural, societal, or educational problems every bit they comport on disadvantaged segments of society.

Applications consist of:

• H5N1 personal contestation describing the student’s work, dissertation, together with whatever other data that the educatee would similar to introduce to the pick committee. The contestation should start out past times addressing the importance of the student’s topic together with approach together with and then explicate the dissertation’s aims, methodologies (how the educatee volition behavior the research), originality, together with contribution to its field

• H5N1 dissertation abstract.

• Two letters of recommendation, 1 which must come upwards from the dissertation advisor, commenting on the student’s performance, potential, together with expected fourth dimension to degree.  At to the lowest degree 1 of the letters must address the student’s contribution to multifariousness inward higher education.  These tin endure sent separately past times the recommenders. 

• Official graduate transcript(s).

• Current curriculum vitae. 

These materials should endure sent to Stephanie King inward the Office of the Provost at stking@upenn.edu. They tin endure transmitted inward to a greater extent than than 1 email. Statements of endorsement, reference letters together with transcripts should endure sent every bit PDFs. Correspondence must endure signed together with on official letterhead. 

Questions tin endure addressed to the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty at provost-fac@upenn.edu

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v58/n24/diversity.html



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