The Institute has announced a new graduate fellowship in the School of Architecture and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The Rensselaer Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Fellowship Program will be available starting in the 2004-2005 academic year and will award competitive fellowships to advanced Ph.D. students. The program aims to increase doctoral-level research in the two schools.
The fellowships will provide full tuition and a $16,000 stipend for each of two years.
A third year of support is possible, based upon a performance evaluation at the end of the second year.
“It is my intent not only to provide fundamental support for the doctoral-level programs in the Schools of Architecture and Humanities and Social Sciences, but also to motivate faculty within these schools to pursue additional external funding and other support,” said President Shirley Ann Jackson.
The Institute has committed to fund five fellowships each in fall ’04, ’05, and ’06.
The School of Architecture and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences are required to seek external support for additional fellowships.
The program could eventually support as many as 20 fellowships each year with increased external and Institute funding.
