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Fulbright Scholarships, etc. (I.I.E.)

UD Fulbright Program Adviser: Stephen Maddux, maddux@udallas.edu

UD FPA for Fall 2009: Robert S. Dupree, scott@udallas.edu

"Fulbright scholarship," in common usage, refers loosely to a wide range of awards permitting US students to study abroad after they have completed their undergraduate education. Some are, strictly speaking, Fulbright grants (study grants funded with money provided originally by the Fulbright-Hayes Act), and some are not. Some are not study grants at all, but teaching assistantships. What they have in common is that 1) they are all administered by the Institute for International Education, an agency that has contracted with the U.S. government to perform this service; and 2) they presuppose language study?in other words, you already need to have background, sometimes quite a bit, in the language before you apply.

Campus deadline is in early October; you should go to see the Fulbright Program Adviser well before, preferably the spring or summer before, particularly if you are applying for a study grant as opposed to a teaching assistantship.

Please read this document for detailed information: JSM's Fulbright Information Sheet

And visit this site: us.fulbrightonline.org

FULBRIGHT AWARDS ARE FOR JUST *AFTER* YOU GRADUATE. THE THREE PROGRAMS BELOW ARE FOR *BEFORE* YOU GRADUATE.

Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

Up to $5K for US-citizen undergraduates (apply before your Senior year) who are recipients of federal Pel grants, for semester or academic-year long programs of language study. (If my understanding is correct, the Gilman award is added to your Pel grant.) Apparently it can be anywhere in the world (not put off-limits by the State Department), although on their web site they say they prefer non-Western European languages and sites.

Deadline: April for the Fall semester and for the academic year; September for the Spring semester.

Website: Gilman Program. See also Timeline.

Freeman-Asia Program

Similar to the Gilman Program, but limited to East and Southeast Asia.

Website: Freeman-Asia Program

Boren Awards

Boren Awards Campus Representative: same as above

Boren Awards are for study abroad in non-Western-European languages currently considered "critical to U.S. national security." Preference is given to candidates willing to work in government service.

Campus deadline: December.

Site: borenawards.org