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Graduate fellowships are merit-based awards that enable the recipient to focus on graduate study, that do not have to be repaid, and that generally include both a stipend and tuition remission. Fellowships differ from Graduate Assistantships, which carry an obligation to teach classes, to work on a research project, or to perform administrative tasks.
Fellowship offers generally are made by graduate programs to incoming students as part of a recruitment package; some are made to current students through competitive awards processes. Applicants to graduate programs and current students should contact the relevant program for more information on available fellowships.
The University of Maryland is committed to diversity and encourages programs to offer support to a diverse range of students consistent with campus principles of equal opportunity.
Recruitment and retention fellowships are funded either internally, usually through the Graduate School's Block Grant Fellowship allocation to colleges, or externally, through a variety of outside funding agencies. In addition, the Graduate School has instituted three major fellowships competitions:
Flagship Fellowships are intended to help graduate programs to recruit and retain truly exceptional students. Flagship Fellowships are multi-year enhancement awards to be added to fellowship/assistantship offers made by graduate programs. Flagship Fellowship enhancements may total $40,000 per student over the duration of the award. The goal is to award ten Flagship Fellowships per year, reaching a steady state of approximately forty Flagship Fellows.
Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowships provide support to outstanding doctoral students at "mid-career," that is, in the period approximately before, during, or after achievement of candidacy, and are intended to enable students to prepare for or complete a key benchmark in their program's requirements. Summer Research Fellowships carry stipends of $5,000. Fellowships were awarded to 56 students in Summer 2008.
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertation and whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertation. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships carry a stipend of $10,000 plus candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The Graduate School awards 40-45 Wylie Dissertation Fellowships per year.
In addition, the Graduate School administers competitions for four endowed awards: The Mabel S. Spencer Award for Excellence in Graduate Education, The James W. Longest Memorial Award for Social Science Research, The Michael J. Pelczar Award for Excellence in Graduate Study, and The Phi Delta Gamma Graduate Fellowship.
Finally, the Graduate School administers the Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grants, which provide funding for graduate students presenting academic work at conferences and professional meetings.
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