Welcome to the University of Virginia School of Architecture’s Admissions scholarship page! Here, you’ll find scholarships we’ve received from donors and other organizations.
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Application Deadline: May 29
The National Park Service, in partnership with Preservation Maryland, is pleased to announce the Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship to promote innovation and professional growth in the field of historic preservation. The fellowship is a short-term opportunity to pursue a unique self-directed project under the guidance of a mentor. Fellows will receive recognition for a distinguished achievement while creating original preservation training content, performing research, or enhancing leadership and management skills.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This opportunity is aimed at both emerging and seasoned preservation professionals and graduate students enrolled at least part-time in a preservation-related degree program (historic preservation, museum studies, history, archaeology, urban planning, architecture, preservation trades, etc.). Applications will be accepted from federal and non-federal applicants.
FELLOWSHIP EXPERIENCE
Once accepted, fellows will be paired with (or continue working with) a mentor appropriate to their field of study. Fellows will develop a plan with their mentors which establishes a timeline for deliverables, a broad outline of their final deliverables, and expectations for collaboration and communication. Fellows will also establish the period of residency (up to two weeks) when they plan to travel to an appropriate location to either work with their mentor or complete fieldwork for their project (subject to change based on current national, regional and local public health guidance). Every fellowship will result in a different deliverable which will be due by August of their fellowship year.
FELLOWSHIP AWARD
Candidates are admitted as fellows for a year (August to August). The program will provide a $5,000 award. Additional support may be provided on a as-needed basis to assure completion of the two-week residency.
To learn more about Harrison Goodall or the Harrison Goodall Preservation Fellowship, including full application instructions, please visit the official posting.
All returning undergraduates are eligible to apply for a $2,000 scholarship to support an internship that is otherwise unattainable due to financial constraints. The scholarship application is attached to this email.
Please note that the application deadline for the first round is is Friday, April 3rd at 11:37 PM, and the deadline for the second round is Friday, April 24th at 11:37 PM. Students should submit any questions or applications to zsociety3711@gmail.com.
Completed applications must include the following:
I. General Information
II. Internship Information
III. Financial Profile
IV. Signature
Part I. General Information
A. Name:
Year:
Major(s)/ Minor(s):
G.P.A.:
Current Address:
Telephone:
U.Va. Email:
B. Please list and describe your University and/or community involvements. We recommend that you include a one-page resume.
C. Please list any other grants or funding that you have secured, as well as for how much, in order to finance your internship.
Part II. Internship Information
A. Please describe your long-term professional goals and how this internship would help you meet these goals. (350-word maximum)
B. Please describe the internship’s organization, location, work dates and hours each week, as well as your intern duties and responsibilities. Please also describe the status of your internship application. (350-word maximum)
Part III. Financial Profile
This information will remain confidential.
A. Please describe any available types of compensation that your internship offers (e.g. stipend, room and board, academic credit, etc.). (200-word maximum)
B. How much are your estimated out-of-pocket expenses during the internship? Please describe any challenges you may have in financing those costs. (500-word maximum)
C. Are you eligible for financial aid? Please describe to the degree that you feel comfortable.
(400-word maximum)
D. ( Optional ) Please explain any additional circumstances that may have an impact on your financial status or expand upon any of the information you have provided in Part III. (250-word maximum)
Part IV: Electronic Signature
On my Honor, I pledge that, to the best of my knowledge, my responses are truthful and accurately reflect my financial and academic status.
This architecture scholarship can change your life!
Maybe you chose architecture because you want to design a better world. Or you can’t imagine doing anything else. One thing’s for certain: You love this work. And we’d love to help fund your college experience with a multiyear scholarship, up to $20,000.
We created the Diversity Advancement Scholarship to help more minority students pursue a successful career in architecture. Multiple scholarships are available.
We’re looking for minority students whose imagination and design thinking will influence the future of the built environment and the architecture profession. Eligible students must be a US citizen, have a minimum 3.0 GPA, and be:
NAAB-accredited degree programs may be a five-year Bachelor of Architecture degree, or a four-year pre-professional bachelor degree followed by a Master of Architecture degree. Scholarships may be renewed for up to 5 years (up to a $20,000 total award—multiple scholarships are available).
The Diversity Advancement Scholarship was created in 1970 with an initial grant from the Ford Foundation, after civil rights leader Whitney Young Jr. challenged architects in 1968 to create a more responsible and equitable field.
The 2020-2021 Diversity Advancement Scholarship applications are now open through January 17, 2020.
Applicants must submit:
Questions?
Email us at scholarships@architectsfoundation.org.
Fall 2019 dates for the Office of Citizen Scholar Development’s Fellowship Series appears below. These events are hosted Mondays from 4-5pm at the Rotunda Multipurpose Room (121) unless otherwise noted.
Don’t know what fellowships are? Wondering what the point of pursuing any of them might be? Unsure of how you could be competitive? Come enjoy a chance to envision yourself as an applicant for these incredible opportunities. This workshop is most appropriate for first and second years or older students who have yet to be exposed to the Office of Citizen Scholar Development.
The Gilman Scholarship Program awards up to $5,000 for students to intern or study abroad. The International Studies Office and the Office of Citizen Scholar Development are hosting an information session to learn more. This is just in time for the first deadline of the year. https://www.gilmanscholarship.org/
Are you a dynamic leader? An activist dedicated to positive change? Committed to public service? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of those questions, you should consider the Truman Scholarship, which provides $30,000 toward graduate school and access to a network of incredible leaders. Come even if you aren’t sure about the graduate school part. Apply as a third year.
Do you love research? Are you considering pursuing research science, mathematics, or engineering as a career? Are you simply a STEM student and want to at least explore an exciting opportunity? Come learn about the award and the process for nomination by the University of Virginia. Apply as a second or third year – so first years should definitely come!
A one-of-a-kind fellowship at one of the world’s leading think tanks. Junior Fellows provide research assistance to scholars working on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace programs. They will have the opportunity to conduct research for books, co-author journal articles and policy papers, participate in meetings with high-level officials, contribute to congressional testimony, and organize briefings attended by scholars, journalists, and government officials.
The Critical Language Scholarship is a fully-funded, in-country intensive language and cultural immersion program. It is part of an effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages such as Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. Come learn more.
The Beinecke Scholarship provides funding for master’s and doctoral degrees in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, neuroscience excluded. Come even if you are not sure about graduate school at this time. Apply as a third year.
Don’t know what fellowships are? Wondering what the point of pursuing any of them might be? Unsure of how you could be competitive? Come enjoy a chance to envision yourself as an applicant for these incredible opportunities. This workshop is most appropriate for first and second years or older students who have yet to be exposed to the Office of Citizen Scholar Development.
The Yenching Academy of Peking University is a fully-funded residential program offering an array of interdisciplinary courses as part of a one-year master’s program in China Studies. Students from all fields are encouraged to apply and take advantage of one of six academic concentrations.
Interested in studying abroad? Learning a language crucial to US national security? Come learn about the Boren Awards, which fund the study of less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests, and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Come learn about the opportunity and the internal process for applying.
The purpose of the Davis Projects for Peace is to spark initiatives for building prospects for peace in the world. Each year, the University of Virginia nominates one project and an alternate for the $10,000 prizes to actually complete the project. Come explore how your vision for peace could be funded by Davis.
Don’t know what fellowships are? Wondering what the point of pursuing any of them might be? Unsure of how you could be competitive? Come enjoy a chance to envision yourself as an applicant for these incredible opportunities. This workshop is most appropriate for first and second years or older students who have yet to be exposed to the Office of Citizen Scholar Development.
The United Kingdom Fellows Program allows graduating University of Virginia students the opportunity to teach and live abroad in a boarding school in the UK for the year following graduation. Come learn about the different schools with which we have a relationship and how to apply. Students in all fields welcome!
The Singapore Management University’s Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship invites students to participate in the 10th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (LKYGBPC) in March 2020.
This biennial competition, named after Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, aims to motivate participants through his legacy of passion and innovation towards building a resilient society. The competition is an excellent opportunity for young minds to design and build solutions for some of the most pressing challenges of this century.
The theme of the competition this year is ‘Reimagine Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities’ and is focused around ideas on sustainable urban innovations. The competition has in the past attracted students with pioneering ideas from across the world, and the 9th edition saw close to 2,000 global participants with 550 submissions from 310 participating universities across 68 countries.
For the 10th edition, fifty shortlisted teams will be invited to Singapore on an all-expenses-paid trip to participate in the Global Young Innovators’ Summit on 16-19 March and the grand finals on the 20 March. Up to S$1 million cash, investment and in-kind prizes is to be won. Shortlisted teams will participate in networking events, fireside chats, office hours, and events featuring prominent entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Asia. Finalists will gain direct access to acclaimed mentors and visit key innovation hotspots in Singapore.
The competition is now open for submissions until 17 November 2019. Learn more HERE.
Full scholarship details and application instructions are available at https://www.ambientbp.com/scholarship.php
At Ambient Bamboo Floors, we care about more than just providing customers with excellent, eco-friendly flooring — we also care about helping the youth in our community reach their goals, specifically in academics, providing education regarding the environment. This is why we are investing in the education of the next generation vis-a-vis a great scholarship opportunity. We want to help one student who shows an interest in sustainability by providing funds to pay for tuition, books, or other school-related expenses via our annual merit-based scholarship award.
Any student who wishes to apply for our scholarship program must be enrolled at an accredited 2-year or 4-year college for the current academic year and must be a resident of the United States.
All candidates will have to fill out the application at the bottom of this page, and write a 2,000 word (minimum) essay on one of the following topics:
If selected, the winning student will receive $1,200 in scholarship funds.
Applications are due September 1, 2019.
Virginia Sea Grant (VASG) is excited to announce the release of several new opportunities including: summer fellowships, summer coastal resiliency internships, and support for faculty-student team projects. Please click on the images below for more information on:
April 5: Plant Humanities Summer Program: open to graduate students, and undergraduate juniors and seniors (direct any queries to PlantHumanities@doaks.org)
Dumbarton Oaks invites applications for a four-week, fully funded summer program focusing on Plant Humanities: the interdisciplinary study of plants, their global travels, and the myriad ways in which they have shaped human culture. The summer program will take place at Dumbarton Oaks, a research institute, museum, and historic garden affiliated with Harvard University and located in Washington, DC. The program is offered in the context of a new initiative at Dumbarton Oaks, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to further the field of plant humanities, in collaboration with JSTOR Labs.
The summer program is intended for advanced undergraduates (juniors and seniors) and graduate students with an interest in plants from perspectives as different as: botany, botanical exploration, the history of science and medicine, environmental studies, art history, and the history of the book and botanical illustration. Program participants will attend seminars and lectures as well as site visits to the Smithsonian, the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, the United States Botanic Garden, and other sites.
The ten participants in the summer program will learn about the cultural histories of plants, with an emphasis on particular case studies, through seminars and guest lectures. They will also receive training and conduct research in the Dumbarton Oaks rare book collection, which is particularly strong in botanical publications and illustrations. Lastly, through our collaboration with JSTOR Labs, students will receive training and develop content for an open access digital tool, developed by Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Labs, whose purpose is to connect primary and secondary resources about plants through visually engaging storytelling.
Priority will be given to undergraduate and graduate students with special interests (demonstrated through coursework or research projects) in the fields of history of science, environmental studies, digital humanities, art history, and/or botany. However, we also welcome applications from candidates who may not already possess skills in digital humanities or the use of special collections, but seek to develop these skills.
Dumbarton Oaks will provide shared accommodations on our campus in Washington, D.C., reimbursement of economy-class travel expenses (up to $600), lunch on weekdays in the Refectory, a Library reader’s pass for the duration of the course, and transportation to site visits for successful applicants.
Prospective candidates are invited to submit by email, as a single PDF, (1) a résumé; (2) a statement of interest describing how the summer program will contribute to their professional and intellectual goals, and (3) an academic transcript. Candidates should also arrange for two letters of recommendation to be emailed to the program directly by the referees. All application materials should be emailed to PlantHumanities@doaks.orgwith “2019 Plant Summer Program” in the subject line. All application materials must be received by Friday, April 5, 2019. Selection criteria will include (but not be limited to) a demonstrated need for the program and the candidates’ present and future research objectives. International candidates are eligible to apply; however, Dumbarton Oaks does not sponsor J visas for this program. For further information, please contact PlantHumanities@doaks.org.
Bliss and Mellon Symposium Awards: 2019 GLS Symposium “Landscape, Sport Environment”: open to graduate students, and undergraduate juniors and seniors
Garden and Landscape Studies sponsors two awards—the Bliss Symposium Award and the Mellon Symposium Award—for currently enrolled graduate students and undergraduate juniors and seniors wishing to attend the annual spring symposium and the fall colloquium at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, D.C. The awards offer reimbursement up to $600 (up to $1,200 for students traveling from abroad) for the cost of travel to Washington D.C., local accommodation, and other approved expenses related to symposium attendance. Symposium registration fees are waived for award recipients. Successful applicants will be expected to assist with a portion of the conference, such as registration and/or facilitating the discussion periods.
To be eligible to compete for an award, applicants (and recipients) must be currently-enrolled graduate students or undergraduate juniors or seniors. Preference will be given to students in concentrations relevant to the fields of Garden and Landscape Studies and Urban Landscape Studies, and who live more than 75 miles from Washington, D.C.
To develop the field of garden and landscape studies across different disciplines and to promote the depth and breadth of future landscape scholarship, Dumbarton Oaks, with the support of the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies and in collaboration with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, will offer an intensive three-week Garden and Landscape Studies Graduate Workshop from May 12 to June 1, 2019.
Bringing together early-career scholars and practitioners who are pursuing cross-disciplinary research on landscape-related topics, the workshop will focus on key issues and texts in landscape history and theory, situating garden and landscape design in the context of humanities scholarship: from the idea of the Three Natures to the ecological challenges of the Anthropocene and the discourse of landscape urbanism. Special emphasis will be laid on the study of urban landscapes.
Participants, typically doctoral candidates in early or advanced stages of writing dissertations and current MLA candidates or recent recipients of MLA degrees, will be invited to share among themselves selected aspects of their work; these morning presentations will be supplemented by afternoon seminars led by Dumbarton Oaks staff and invited scholars.
The program will also include two study sessions in the Rare Book Reading Room at Dumbarton Oaks, site visits in the Washington metropolitan area (including the National Mall, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land, and Meridian Hill Park), and a three-day stay at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Upperville, Virginia, focused on the issues of conservation biology. During their residency at Dumbarton Oaks, workshop’s participants will have access to the institute’s library resources and its celebrated gardens designed by Beatrix Farrand.
Dumbarton Oaks will provide accommodation in Washington, DC, reimbursement of round trip economy-class travel expenses to Washington, DC (up to $1,600 for international travel, $1,000 for domestic travel), lunches on weekdays, and round trip transportation to and lodging in Upperville, VA.
Prospective candidates are required to submit a letter of interest, a five-hundred-word abstract of the dissertation (in the case of MLA holders and students, a statement of research interests that would demonstrate a developed research agenda), and a current CV. All materials should be emailed in a single PDF file to Landscape@doaks.org and received by Friday, March 15, 2019; please write “2019 Graduate Workshop” in the subject line. Two letters of recommendation should be emailed directly by referees to Landscape@doaks.org.
International candidates are eligible to apply; however, Dumbarton Oaks does not sponsor J visas for this program. Any geographical or chronological focus is welcome, including projects dealing specifically with urban subjects. For further information, please contact Landscape@doaks.org.
A-School Scholarships & Fellowships 