Boston College University Fellowship Committee

Boston College University Fellowship Committee The mission of the BC University Fellowships Committee is to encourage and assist undergrads in comp

Boston College's University Fellowships Committee encourages and aids Boston College undergraduates in competing for the most notable of undergraduate and graduate fellowships and scholarships—the Rhodes, Fulbright, Marshall, Churchill, Truman, and many others. These prestigious fellowships are not only rewarding in themselves, they can open up opportunities and grant a distinction that could tra

nsform your life. Naturally, the most prestigious fellowships are the most desirable—and the most competitive. But they are well within the reach of BC students who have strong academic records. In recent years, BC students have competed successfully for a whole array of these fellowships, including the Marshall, Mellon, NSF, and Fulbright Scholarships. Indeed, occasionally during the past several years, BC students have won more Fulbright Scholarships—to spend a year pursuing their own projects in such places as Japan, France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, and Bulgaria—than students at Harvard, Duke, Stanford, or Brown. BC has also been recognized as among the top 10 producers of Fulbright Scholars. Other BC undergraduates have won Goldwater, Truman, and NSEP Scholarships to help fund study aboard and completion of their educations at Boston College. Earning one of these fellowships requires planning and preparation. That's where you need the advice and assistance of the University Fellowships Committee. Even if you are now a freshman, it is not too early to seek guidance. And if you are a sophomore, junior, or senior, there are fellowships you can apply for this year. Whether you are interested in fellowships available for undergraduate study (that is, awards you can use while at BC) or in fellowships available for graduate study (that is, awards you can use after BC) the place to start is with the University Fellowships Committee's general information located on the University Fellowships Committee's website--https://www.bc.edu/offices/ufel.html.

Good afternoon! We at the Office of University Fellowships hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Break and are nicely rested ...
11/30/2017

Good afternoon! We at the Office of University Fellowships hope you had a nice Thanksgiving Break and are nicely rested for finals.

Here's another scholarship program for current Juniors who are starting to think about grad school.

From Professor Zachary Matus: The Beinecke Scholarship provides financial awards to current undergraduates who desire to pursue advanced work in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Aimed at students who have required need-based financial aid as undergraduates, the Beinecke Scholarship provides funds to help meet the costs of graduate school. The Beinecke Scholarship is for current college juniors and does not require applicants to have been accepted to graduate school at the time of application. Since 1975, more than 610 college students from over 110 different institutions have received awards.

Nominations for the Beinecke Scholarship are made by Boston College's University Fellowship Committee. If you have received need-based financial aid and are considering graduate school, please see Professor Zachary Matus ([email protected]), the advisor for Beinecke Scholarship applicants. An information session for Beinecke applicants will be held on Tuesday, November 14, at 12pm in Stokes South 376.

Zachary Matus has been a member of the History Faculty at Boston College since 2012. His teaching and research examines the history of science and religion and he is a past Fulbright Scholar.

More general information on the program can be found here: http://fdnweb.org/beinecke/program/

And application information is here: http://fdnweb.org/beinecke/how-to-apply/

We have another Fellowship opportunity for you to think about!*Note the deadline - Oct. 6"The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace...
09/27/2017

We have another Fellowship opportunity for you to think about!

*Note the deadline - Oct. 6

"The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship through twice yearly grants provides graduates with an opportunity to explore key issues of peace and security from the vantage point of a variety of Washington D.C. organizations. “Scoville Fellows, through independent projects and active participation with their chosen organization and the larger community dedicated to peace and security issues, have rich opportunities to gain experience and leadership skills and to help translate their social concerns into direct action.” Fellowships are for six to nine months for salaried full-time work as project assistants in participating organizations."

The on-campus advisor for this Fellowship is Dean Candace Hetzner. She is an Associate Dean of the Morrisey College of Arts and Sciences Graduate School. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. Her primary areas of interest are in public policy and ethics.

Her email address is: [email protected]

The Scoville Peace Fellowship is: http://scoville.org/

Application information is here: http://scoville.org/apply/application-information/

Happy Autumn everyone! We hope you're doing alright with the heat...Anyway! We wanted to share the testimonial and some ...
09/27/2017

Happy Autumn everyone! We hope you're doing alright with the heat...

Anyway! We wanted to share the testimonial and some pictures of Nicholas Rocchio-Giordano who traveled to Ecuador this summer with a Thesis Grant to teach music. Enjoy! (And start brainstorming for your own trip!)

From Nicholas -
This summer I traveled to Ecuador this past summer where I spent 10 weeks designing and directing an afterschool music program at two centers for high risk children and adolescents, a temporary housing/rehabilitation center called Mi Caleta, and an afterschool sports center called Golaso, run by the non-profit organization El Proyecto Salesiano Ecuador (PSE). The program brings music performance and music education students from two local universities, La Universidad de San Francisco Quito (USFQ) and La Pontificia Univesidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), into both PSE locations to fulfill their class, major, and service-based graduation requirements through meaningful participation and mentorship in musical activities and performances with the 100+ children between the ages of 5-16 living and/or being cared for there.

Though, surely, the greatest impact of musical experience comes with years of musical interaction, performance, and practice, the impact of this isolated program, which started again this September under the instruction of the Music Education department at PUCE, was perhaps most visible at our final performance together during the last week of my stay. In the main auditorium of the PUCE’s Department of Education Sciences, voices from a small group of talented and dedicated children could be heard singing out in Spanish, with a band of music students from USFQ, to an audience full of their peers and mentors: “We are El Proyecto Salesiano, children from the street reactivated, we smile because there is hope, and we sing so you all can hear us, we fight for our value, and we have the right to enjoy our lives.”

For many of these children, music became a way to discuss the highly personal issue of their poverty, which they typically never addressed in public, or even with each other. Performance of this music gave them an audience who promised to listened, a goal which drove the to practice, and the feeling of accomplishment derived from each successful performance. The value of the program is not music, but rather what music offers, especially to children in such vulnerable circumstances.

Hello everyone! Here's another scholarship for your consideration. Links for more information are at the bottom. The Gol...
09/20/2017

Hello everyone! Here's another scholarship for your consideration. Links for more information are at the bottom.

The Goldwater Scholarship Program, one of the oldest and most prestigious national scholarships in the natural sciences, engineering and mathematics in the United States, seeks to identify and support college sophomores and juniors who show exceptional promise of becoming this Nation’s next generation of research leaders in these fields.

The on-campus representative for this scholarship is Dr. Tim van Opijnen.

From Dr. Tim van Opijnen: Dr. van Opijnen received his PhD from the University of Amsterdam on the evolution of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. He went on to work as a postdoctoral fellow at Tufts University Medical School and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute developing new approaches to study highly pathogenic bacteria. Since 2013 he teaches undergraduates and graduate students at Boston College about the latest technologies in the fields of genetics and genomics and he runs a research lab focusing on how bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, make people sick and evolve resistance to antibiotics. Moreover, his lab develops devices to enable faster diagnostics, novel treatment strategies that overcome antibiotic resistance and new research tools to push the boundary of science. Lastly, in his limited spare time he writes about science and makes a biweekly podcast, in Dutch :)

Dr. Van Opijnen's contact information:
Email - [email protected]
Phone - (617) 552-0804

https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/chemistry/academics/undergraduate/scholarships-awards.html

https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/

As always, our office is always here to answer any other questions you may have!

First up for this year's fantastic scholarship opportunities is the Barry Goldwater Scholarship!Check out the main websi...
09/07/2017

First up for this year's fantastic scholarship opportunities is the Barry Goldwater Scholarship!

Check out the main website for more information. As you can see, the online application opened this week!

More information about the application process can be found here: https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/steps-in-process/

And the FAQ page is here: https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/faqs-3/

If you have more questions about BC's involvement with this scholarship or want to meet with one of us to discuss any interest you have, please email us at [email protected]

09/07/2017

Hello BC Students! We hope you're having a smooth start to a new school year.

Stay tuned for posts about upcoming Fellowship and Scholarship opportunities!

02/01/2017

Boston College University Fellowships Office wants to join with these student organizations and invite all BC students, faculty, and alums to come and speak through silence against the President's chaotic and dangerous executive order. We're proud of our BC students!

The Muslim Student Association at Boston College invites the BC community to a unity rally on Friday at noon. The most recent political developments have left so many of us confused, scared, and determined to fight back. We hope that through a moment of silence followed by student speakers, we will be able to unite as a community to breathe, reflect, and move forward together.

In collaboration with the MSA are the following groups:
Arab Student Association
Asian Caucus
BAIC
BC Alive
BCHillel
Black Student Forum
Campus Ministry
Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Climate Justice at BC
DABC
FACEs
Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program
GlobeMed
Haitian Association
International Assistant Program
Korean Student Association
Montserrat Office
OLAA (Organization of Latin American Affairs)
PATU
Students For Education Reform
Students for Social Justice in Palestine
UGBC
United Front
Volunteer and Service Learning Center
4Boston

Please contact Sara ([email protected]) or Isra ([email protected]) if you would like to collaborate as well.

01/23/2017

Greetings to all the students, faculty, and staff! We hope everyone has a great semester!

12/07/2016

Hope everyone has a great end to their semesters and productive study days before the holiday!

Vincent Rubertone, class of 2018 who is a History major, spent three weeks doing primary source research in the National...
11/21/2016

Vincent Rubertone, class of 2018 who is a History major, spent three weeks doing primary source research in the National Library of Ireland in Dublin through a BC University Fellowship. With his fellowship, Vincent explored the process of primary source research and how historical projects change and evolve in the archive. His project examined the public school system of Ireland in the years leading up the Easter Rising revolt of 1916. He is currently working to turn that research into a paper for publishing.

Luis Torres, Class of 2016, who is an English major, proposed to carry out a project title "Raza: An Exploration of Rac...
04/15/2016



Luis Torres, Class of 2016, who is an English major, proposed to carry out a project title "Raza: An Exploration of Race and Ethnicity in Dominican Literature." His project is a literary project designed to explore how Dominican authors like Junot Diaz and Julia Alvarez categorize race and ethnicity in their literature. In the summer of 2015, Luis traveled to Quito, Ecuador in order to complete a course titled Culture, Identity and Race: Research through a Global Lens UNAS 3360 taught by Professor Hiroshi Nakazato of the International Studies Program here at Boston College.

This week's focuses on Kathleen Bailey, who is Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and theAssoci...
04/15/2016



This week's focuses on Kathleen Bailey, who is Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and theAssociate Director of the Islamic Civilization & Societies Program at Boston College. She specializes in Central Asian affairs, in particular political leadership and clan politics in Uzbekistan, as well as interethnic relations in the wider region. She is Editor-in Chief of the Central Asian and Afghanistan division of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam. Her book, Clan Politics and Political Elites in Uzbekistan, will be published in 2016. She is Co-Principal Investigator of two Foreign Language and Area Studies Grants from the U.S. Department of Education. Her current research focuses on comparative authoritarianism and the historical legacy of autocratic regimes.

Dr. Bailey received her M.A, from Tufts University and her BA and doctorate from Boston College.

Dr. Bailey oversees the Mizna Fellowship, which was created in 2014 thanks to the generosity of a Boston College alumnus who was interested in helping students learn more about the world of Islam through experiencing the peoples, languages and cultures of this rich region. Mizna grants in the range of $2,500 are awarded on a competitive basis to undergraduate students including freshmen, for whom travel may be an introduction to the world of Islamic scholarship. Seniors who seek to expand their understanding of Islamic cultures, history, language, politics and foreign policies in order to author a distinguished senior thesis, are especially encouraged to apply. Service learning initiatives in the region are welcomed. Mizna grants are awarded twice a year, in October and February.

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people." This quote from Gandhi sums up the Mizna approach that one can only truly understand people by living among them and sharing their viewpoints and experiences.

Mizna (مِزنة) is the Arabic word for a rain bearing cloud. The different perspective that we have on the words "cloud" and "rain" is symbolic of the way different cultures approach the same phenomenon: for a Bostonian, a cloudy day is a wretched thing. In the deserts of the Middle East, a cloud symbolizes life and hope, and is a great blessing. The Mizna Fellowship makes it possible for Boston College students to engage with people across the Islamic world and to achieve more effective cross-cultural understanding, which is a crucial tool in an increasingly globalized world.

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