Fellowships and Scholarships for

Graduate Study

If you are considering futhering your education through graduate study, you may also want to consider applying for competitive fellowships available through foundations and other organizations. These prestigious awards may broaden your choices for graduate work – both in terms of location and topic. Plan ahead – research the awards, determine what criteria must be met, and look carefully at deadlines. In some cases, your application must be forwarded by the college – be sure to allow plenty of time for review. Some programs have campus advisers, who are listed below; please direct questions about those programs to the advisers. For other programs, contact Marty St. Clair (mstclair@coe.edu), associate dean of faculty.

Past Coe graduates have been very successful in pursuing these types of fellowships.

R. Darryl Banks (‘72) works for Mitretek Systems, an energy and environmental firm. He was a Rhodes Scholar, and received a doctorate in biochemistry at Oxford. He served as the Deputy Commissioner for Environmental Quality at the New York State Department of Environmental Quality and subsequently as Director of Environment and Technology Program and Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute where his group focused on strategic corporate environmental issues, including groundbreaking work on environmental accounting and environmental performance metrics. He was also a Vice president and Senior Consultant at CH2M HILL in the Management Systems Practice.

Nathan Nass (’06) was awarded a Fulbright Program grant. A double major in music and Asian studies, Nass developed an interest in the study of how music and culture relate. The Fulbright award allows Nass to continue his research on native instruments in South Korea.

Vaughn Vance (’94) received a Truman Scholarship. He is an attorney in Wisconsin, where he serves as Chief of Staff for State Senator Roger Breske. He is also very active in issues involving Juvenile Diabetes.

Amy Myers (‘05) received a Jack Kent Cooke fellowship, and is currently pursuing a masters degree at the University of Arizona in bilingual and multicultural education. She served as Peace Corps volunteer in Guyana and Nicaragua before returning to the U.S. to pursue a career in teaching.

Sara Campbell (‘06) is pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder with the assistance of a National Sciene Foundation graduate fellowship.

1998 was a great year for Coe biology majors. Christina Bentz (’98) received an NSF Graduate Fellowship while studying evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago. Her classmate and fellow biology student, Sarah Bray (’98) also received an NSF fellowship for her studies in ecology at the University of Florida – as did Tracy (Blickhan) Gartner (’98) for her work in plant ecology at the University of Connecticut – Storrs.

Desirae Leipply ('04) was recognized as the national Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Scholar in 2004. This award was in addition to tuition remission and a generous stipend from The Johns Hopkins University to pursue a Ph.D. in biophysics.

Many Coe students have received McElroy Fellowships for post-baccalaureate study, as evidenced by the list below.