Wednesday, March 2

4-5pm in CLA 1.106

&

Friday, April 8

4-5pm in CLA 1.106

Fulbright awards graduating seniors, recent graduates and alumni to travel for academic work in all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts.  A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.

If your students aren’t quite ready, the competition happens every year, and we’d like to put the Fulbright Program in exceptional students’ minds as a goal to strive for after graduation!  Fulbright@austin.utexas.edu

The Fine Print:

The 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S. Student competition will open on March 31, 2016.  The Fulbright U.S. Student program is open to graduate students at all levels, undergraduates who will have completed their degree by the beginning of the grant period (for most countries, Sept. 1, 2017) and alumni who hold a bachelor’s degree.  The program is restricted to U.S. citizens.  The grants are for study and research abroad, and are available for most countries.  Grants are awarded for all disciplines, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, engineering, and the performing and creative arts.  A number of countries also offer grants for those who wish to serve as English teaching assistants.

Information sessions and Q & A for prospective applicants will be held Wednesday, March 2 and Friday April 8 in CLA 1.106.

Deadlines and Procedures:

1.  The applicant should go to the Fulbright U.S. Student Program website

(http://us.fulbrightonline.org/home.html) for country summaries, information about preparing an application, and, starting March 31, to begin the online application process.

2.  The applicant should also review our campus website:

http://world.utexas.edu/abroad/funding/scholarships/fulbright

3. Potential applicants should register with us by beginning an application in the Embark Application System.

4.  Campus Deadline: The applicant must submit a preliminary application through the Embark Online Application system by 5 PM on September 8, 2016. Interviews with the Fulbright Campus Committee are tentatively scheduled between September 19 and September 30. 

5. National Deadline: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 4pm Central time.

 For the most recent statistical year (2014-15), UT Austin was ranked as a Top Producing School, with 13 of our 57 applicants receiving the award. As a Fulbrighter myself (Brazil, 1990), I can testify to the lifelong value of this extraordinary program, and I am hoping that we can make that experience available to our students as well.

Best,

Lindsay Hale, Ph.D.

University Extension | Continuing Education

Chair, Fulbright U.S. Student Program Campus Committee

Since The University of Texas at Austin hosts a Phi Kappa Phi honor society chapter, ALL students at the university are eligible to apply for a Study Abroad Grant from the national organization.  Approximately 50 Study Abroad Grants are awarded in the amount of $1,000 each.

The deadline for applying to receive this grant from the national Phi Kappa Phi office is quickly approaching.  For study abroad programs between May 1, 2016 – November 30, 2016, your deadline is February 15, 2016. For more information, please see the attached info sheet or visit the national website at http://www.phikappaphi.org/grants-awards/study-abroad.   You may also contact the national office directly at STUDYABROAD@PHIKAPPAPHI.ORG.

Apply online here

In addition to the national grant, the local chapter offers an award to UT Students who are PKP members and have applied to the national scholarship. The deadline to apply for a local UT Austin chapter study abroad award is February 15, 2016.  Please submit a copy of your materials for the national award to our office located in MAI 202, Office of the Dean, or by email.  For questions regarding the local chapter award or submissions, please email pkp@austin.utexas.edu.

Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS)

Information Session at UT

Wed, Nov. 4th at 2:00pm in BUR 231

Join us next week to hear more about the program from UT students who are alumni of the Summer 2015 CLS Russian language program! See the promotional flier for the CLS Program HERE

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The Critical Language Scholarship is a prestigious and intensive language program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Students of diverse disciplines and majors are encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers. Please visit the CLS language specific pages for more information:

• Azerbaijani, Bangla, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Punjabi, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu: Beginning, advanced beginning, intermediate and advanced levels;
• Arabic and Persian: Advanced beginning, intermediate and advanced levels;
• Chinese, Japanese, and Russian: Intermediate and advanced levels.

The deadline to submit a CLS application this year is November 23^rd, 2015 at 7:59 EST, which is only about a month away.

The Senate of College Council’s Academic Enrichment committee gives out a $1000 scholarship to any student, in any major, which goes toward a study abroad program.  The application is due November 5th. For more information concerning this scholarship click here

If you have anymore questions, feel free to email me back at stewfurth@gmail.com