The Fellowships Office limits its responses to requests for information from prospective applicants to Cornell and from current Cornell graduate students. Female students enrolled in any life, physical, behavioral or social science or engineering program leading to a Ph.D. degree are eligible for these awards. Winners have traditionally been at the dissertation level of their graduate work. US citizens may use the money for study in the US or abroad. Non-US citizens must be enrolled in a US institution of higher education to be eligible for these awards.
Restrictions are subject to change.
Selected fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Limited to students who have no more than 30 semester hours of graduate credit at time of application, enrolled in doctoral or Master of Fine Arts programs. The Program is established in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors. The Fellowships are grants for up to two years of graduate study in the United States. The recipients are chosen on a national competitive basis.