Graduate School Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships
for 2009-2010

Eligibility

In Spring 2009, the Graduate School will award up to 40 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships for Academic Year 2009-2010. Each fellowship will carry a stipend of $10,000. Recipients also will receive candidacy tuition remission and $800 toward the cost of health insurance. The fellowships provide financial support for either the Fall 2009 or the Spring 2010 semester, and are intended for students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertations, whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertations, and who expect to receive their degrees in December 2009, May 2010, or August 2010. Each doctoral program may nominate up to two students.

Selection

Candidates will be evaluated on four criteria:

1. The likelihood of the student's completing the dissertation during the 2009-2010 academic year.

2. The quality of the student's work.

3. The potential contribution of the dissertation to the student's field of research.

4. The student's other sources of support.

Application Requirements

Applicants will be asked to submit an application form; a 500-word abstract written for a general audience, including a statement of the significance of the study; a one-page statement of the work completed to date, the work remaining, the timeline, and the expected completion date; a curriculum vitae; and two letters of recommendation. Recommendations should be written by the student's advisor and the program's or department's director of graduate studies. If the advisor is also the director of graduate studies, the second letter should be written by the program or department chair.

Students who wish to apply for the fellowship should submit a copy of the application form and the required attachments to their advisor and director of graduate studies. Students who have funding that is directly related to their dissertation research, who hold another substantial fellowship, or who will not graduate by August 2010, should not apply.

Reporting

At the end of the fellowship semester the student will submit a brief but specific report (no more than one page in length), countersigned by the departmental chair or director of graduate studies, or the major professor with whom the student is working, on the work accomplished during the period of the award.

Due Date

Programs should submit each nomination package, including letters of recommendation, electronically in a single pdf file as an email attachment to Judith King in the Graduate School (wylie-fellowship@umd.edu) by March 4th, 2009. Students should check with their program director to see when applications will be reviewed at the program level as well as for the program's preferred form of submission.

The recipients of the Wylie Dissertation Fellowships will be announced in April 2009.

Links to application materials are available below:

2009-2010 Application Form

DGS Recommendation Letter Form

Advisor Recommendation Letter Form

For a roster of past winners of Wylie Dissertation Fellowships, please click here.