Contact your local Rotary club for information. U.S. government sponsors these scholarships for American citizens to study abroad and develop fluency in a foreign language. Generally, these scholarships are for studying non-European languages. The scholarships can be for a summer, an academic semester or a year, and the deadline has varied between December 1 and February 1. You need an institutional nomination to apply, so inquire early.
New programs emerge frequently.
Look for announcements and applications during the fall semester in the Office of Student Services. The Benjamin Menschel Fellowship Program to Support Creative Inquiry was endowed by a grant given in 1994 to The Cooper Union by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation to support work in the fields of art, architecture, design and engineering. This generous grant was intended to provide funding to exceptional students who propose scholarly independent projects that will in some way provide a culmination to their educational endeavors at The Cooper Union. Application deadline is March 1. Program -This program pays a stipend to students at the end of their sophomore or junior year to work on an independent research project in the humanities.