Fellowships & Scholarships
Our Mission Statement
The Fellowships Office serves Puget Sound students by providing information and support to help them develop outstanding applications to be competitive for local and national scholarships. The philosophy and mission of the office focus on encouraging independence while assisting students in realizing their academic potential, facilitating the application process in their desired areas, and supporting the overall academic mission of the university. The office participates in the university’s efforts to attract outstanding student applicants for admission who will eventually apply for national scholarships and awards.
Congratulations to our 2012-13 Winners
Fulbright Scholarship: Laura Lasswell ’12, Germany; Kat Schmidt ’12, Germany
French Government Teaching Assistantship: Emily Strichartz ’12, Serena Berkowitz ’12, Emily Swisher ’12, Elizabeth Hughes ’12, Charlotte Cronin ’12, Molly Gibson ’11
Princeton-in-Asia: Max Honch ’12, Thailand; Max Heston ’12; China
Critical Language Scholarship: Peter Russell ’12, Arabic advanced beginning
Udall Scholarship: Maggie Shanahan ’13
Goldwater Scholarship: Kevin Halasz ’12, Maggie Shanahan ’13, Vienna Saccomanno ’13
Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals Fellowship: Jon Prentice '12
National Science Foundation Scholarship: Rachel Hood ’09 (University of California, Berkeley), Life Sciences, microbiology
Past News
Congratulations to our 2011-12 Winners
Rhodes Scholarship Finalist: Sara Johansen ’11; Thomas J. Watson Fellowship: Jacqueline Ward '10, Margaret Shelton '11; Fulbright Scholarship: Giulia Leggett ’11 (ETA to Argentina), Kyle Nunes ’11 ETA to Uruguay, Katherine Tuteur ’11 ETA to Germany (Alternate), Allyson Hale ’11 ETA to Germany (Alternate), Christina Wu ’11 ETA to Korea (Alternate); French Government Teaching Assistantship: Chelsea Asher ‘11, Lauren Vandenberg ‘11, Abby Kaufman ‘11; Udall Scholarship Honorable Mention Award: Maggie Shanahan ‘13; National Science Foundation: Erick Peirson ’09; Princeton-in-Asia: Micah Stanovsky '11, Griffin Hotchkiss '11
Congratulations to our Thomas J Watson Fellows
Margaret Shelton ’11, a senior student, and Jacqueline Ward ’10, a recent graduate, have been awarded the prestigious Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, which will give them each $25,000 to pursue 12 months of travel and independent research starting this summer.
They are among 40 awardees nationwide, chosen from 148 finalists nominated by select private liberal arts colleges and universities. Puget Sound was one of only two colleges in the Northwest to see its students honored with the award, and one of only three from the West Coast.
Congratulations to our Rhodes Finalist
Sara Johansen ’11, a molecular and cellular biology major and music minor at University of Puget Sound, has been named a finalist in the search for America’s 2011 Rhodes Scholars. Thirty-two Rhodes Scholarships are awarded to United States citizens annually, giving the recipients the opportunity to study for two years in a degree program at University of Oxford, England. Read more
Scholarships
There are literally hundreds of scholarships to which students and post graduates can apply. Many of these (external scholarships) require that the student apply through the university which they attend. At the University of Puget Sound, students must apply through the Fellowships Office for those which require a school nomination or endorsement.
The members of this committee and the faculty who work with each individual scholarship (see table below), assist each student applicant in the preparation of their application. It is up to each student, however, to submit a well-written application that can be then nominated.
While the major fellowships such as Rhodes, Fulbright and Rotary require a school nomination, many others do not. For those as well as the nominated scholarships, we do recommend that students seek assistance from the Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships office and other university support services such as the Center for Writing, Learning, and Teaching in order to insure that each application is a strong as it can be and representative of the students' best work.
Below are listed the major fellowship/scholarship opportunities available for students at Puget Sound which are linked to a page giving a brief description of each. From there you can go directly to each scholarship's Home Page.
- Carnegie Junior Fellows Program
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
- Davies-Jackson Fellowship
- Elie Wiesel Prize
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
- French Government Teaching Assistantships
- Fulbright Scholarship Program
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- Global Student Entrepreneur Awards
- Hertz Foundation Fellowship
- Howard Hughes Fellowship
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
- Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship
- James Madison Fellowship Program
- Judith L. Weidman Racial Ethnic Minority Fellowship
- Luce Scholars Program
- Marshall Scholarships
- Mitchell Scholarships
- National Physical Science Consortium
- National Science Foundation
- National Security Education Program - Graduate
- NCAA Enhancement Program Postgraduate Scholarship
- Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
- Princeton in Africa
- Princeton in Asia
- Princeton in Latin America
- Rhodes Scholarship
- R.H. Thompson Memorial Scholarship Program
- Richard Bangs Collier Pleneurethic Scholarship
- Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship
- Soros Fellowships for New Americans
- Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
- USA Today All-USA Academic Team
- Wallerich Scholarship
- Watson Fellowship Program
- Scholarships and Awards Given by the University of Puget Sound
- American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities has a great deal of resources on bioethics education, as well as a huge list of undergraduate internships in bioethics, both nationally and internationally. This website might be able to provide extra resources for students including internship opportunities.
This list covers the major scholarships, in particular those which require an Institutional Nomination. There are many others to which students can apply. Interested students should use web search engines, library resources, read the TATTLER regularly, and inquire in the Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships Office, Howarth 114J, for information on other scholarship opportunities. You may also search for fellowships by study focus. Prospective graduate students should check with each institution to which they apply for financial aid available directly from that school.
