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. 22, 2024)
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.