These scholarships require a special form available in the Office of Graduate Education and Research. The fellowships provide full tuition and a living stipend for twelve months. Currently, the Gangster Fund supports up to four graduate fellowships, two each in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Recipients are selected each year from among the top candidates who are beginning a Ph.D. program at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. These prestigious fellowships are open to candidates from all engineering disciplines.
Selection is competitive and based on departmental recommendation.
University Fellowships - These fellowships can cover tuition, fees, and stipends, in whole or in part. The highest academic standards are applied in selecting recipients of these fellowships. Wilson S. Yerger Memorial Fellowship - This award was established in 1946, in memory of Wilson S. Yerger, of the class of 1909, by his widow, Dorothy David Yerger, and his children. It provides a stipend plus tuition for a fellowship holder in materials science or in chemical engineering. Nominations will be based on the scholastic attainments of the applicant with due regard for worthiness of character, financial need, promise of success in the principal line of work he or she proposes to pursue as a graduate student, and for the interests of the department in which he or she proposes to pursue it.