The Mellon Engaged Scholar Initiative: Undergraduate Fellowship
Calling all students who will be Juniors in the Fall 2018 semester!
Engagement signifies many things: commitment, attachment, participation, employment, activity, unity, interconnection, and mutuality. The Engaged Scholar Initiative at The University
of Texas at Austin celebrates interdisciplinary research as a dynamic and evolving conversation about humanity and society in the Twenty-First Century. Intellectual alliances, cross-pollinating
ideas, renewed and re-imagined partnerships are desired scholarly and communal goals for the present and the future, and will be the undertaking of the graduate and undergraduate ESI
fellows. The ESI Fellows are mutual celebrants of the world of knowledge, culture, history, politics, ethics, the arts and languages, and the imagination. The ESI project aspires to amplify
the educational resources available to the Ph.D. and undergraduate fellows beyond the parameters of their traditional research disciplines, in order to increase the benefits to the
scholars and the communities in which they work and live.
What is asked of the ESI Fellow? A commitment to creative and risk-taking research; an inclination toward affiliation and translation; a vibrant sense of civic and intellectual engagement; and a shared endeavor to make public-facing scholarship a mission of generosity
and conviction.
Benefits Include:
- Yearly Stipend: $4500
- Research Stipend: $750
Eligibility:
- Minimum 3.2 GPA
- Junior-class standing by Fall 2018
- Preference given to College of Liberal Arts majoring in Humanities or Humanistic Social Sciences
The application and more information can be found here.
The deadline for this program is Friday, March 23rd by 5 PM.
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