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Award, Fellowship and Grant Deadlines

Award, Fellowship and Grant Deadlines


FELLOWSHIPS

Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship (DCF)

Application deadline: Feb. 19, 2025 by 5 p.m.
Award amount: Salary per fall/spring semester: TBD; Salary per summer session: TBD. Tuition award (to cover 1 dissertation credit each semester and/or session of your award).

Gwen Frostic Doctoral Fellowship

Application deadline: March 12, 2025 by 5 p.m.

Thurgood Marshall Fellowship

Application deadline: Feb. 12, 2025 by 5 p.m.

King/Cesar Chavez/Rosa Parks Future Faculty Fellowship*

Application deadline: TBD 
*Terms of this award determined by the State of Michigan and as such, the terms are subject to change

WMU GEP Fellowship**

Application deadline: Feb. 19, 2025 by 5 p.m.


GRANTS

Graduate Student Research Grant

Application deadlines: Fall, Oct. 8, 2024; Spring, Feb. 18, 2025 by 5 p.m.
Award amount: Up to $1,000

Graduate Student Travel Grant 

Application deadlines: Fall, Oct. 8, 2024; Spring, Feb. 18, 2025 by 5 p.m.
Award amount: Up to $1000 


SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES

Fisher Gerontology Dissertation Prize

Application deadline: April 2, 2025 by 5 p.m.
Award amount: Up to $1,000

Patricia Thompson Dissertation

Award Application deadline: March 12, 2025 by 5 p.m. 
Award amount: $1,000

Dames Endowed Scholarship

Application deadline: April 2, 2025 by 5 p.m. 
Award amount: $500

Graduate Studies Council Department and University Teaching and Research Award (All-University Awards)

Application deadline for departments to nominate their department teaching and research winners for the All-University Awards: Feb. 17, 2025                              

(Department-Level GTE and GRCS awards selection deadline to report winners to Grad College: Jan. 20, 2025)

Stapleton-Reinhold Scholarship**

Application deadline: April 2, 2025 by 5 p.m.
Award amount: Up to $1,000

**Individual awards/grants/fellowships and their funding are subject to change due to budgetary constraints in any given year cycle.