Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Spring 2014)
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Applicants must be enrolled in a program leading to the PhD, DMA, EdD, or JSD and should have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the dissertation. Only those students who will defend and deposit their dissertations by August 2015 are eligible for nomination. Students who have not yet passed the preliminary exam should not apply. Students who have not completed their 500-level (non-thesis) coursework should not apply.
Eligible students must be nominated by their department or program. Only two nominations may be submitted from each degree-granting department or program.
Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on March 14 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Research Proposal. The proposal should be written in an accessible, jargon-free manner appropriate for the Graduate College's multidisciplinary review panel. The proposal should include the following elements: research question, hypothesis (if applicable), significance, literature review, preliminary research, methodology, and timeline. The proposal should be a maximum of three pages, double-spaced, with one inch margins, and in Times New Roman. A separate bibliography (one page maximum) is allowed, but no appendices are allowed.
2) Curriculum vitae.
3) Two letters of reference, one from the student's adviser and one from the student's thesis director. If the student's adviser and thesis director are the same person, the second letter should come from another member of the student's dissertation committee.
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