Marion Morse Wood Fellowship (Spring 2017)

CS Department Deadline: 1/13/2017
Campus Deadline: 1/31/2017

See: https://www.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/index.cfm?action=main.fellowship&fid=3299

The Graduate College's Marion Morse Wood Fellowship Fund supports University of Illinois graduate students whose research focuses on interpersonal communication.

The Fellowship provides a stipend of $12,000 for the academic year, along with coverage of tuition, service fee, health service fee, AFMA fee, library fee, as well as basic dental and vision insurance. In addition, the Fellow will receive partial payment of the graduate student health insurance fee for the academic year.

The criteria used in making awards are the relevance and significance of the student's research in interpersonal communication as determined from the research summary and letters of support, along with the student's productivity and efficient progress toward the degree.

Two fellowships will be available for 2017-2018. Previous recipients of the fellowship are not eligible for nomination.

Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on 1/13/2017 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2252 SC):
1) CV (maximum three pages, with at least 11 point font and one-inch margins).
2) Research Summary. Nominees should prepare a three-page narrative (double-spaced, with 12-point font and one-inch margins) describing their research project. Summaries should make explicit the project’s focus on interpersonal communication. Given that applications will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary committee, the research summary should be written for scholars who may not be familiar with the nominee's discipline or particular line of research. Nominees should address the following items in their summaries:

Research question (and hypothesis, if appropriate).
Significance/Literature review.
Preparation/Preliminary research.
Research design and methodology.
Timeline.

3) References Cited listing (maximum one-page, single-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins).
4) Two letters of recommendation, one of which must come from the applicant's advisor.

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Students, please include your netid in your file names.