Marion Morse Wood Fellowship (Spring 2016)

Marion Morse Wood Fellowship (Spring 2016)

CS Department Deadline: 1/29/2016
Campus Deadline: 2/8/2016

See: https://www.grad.illinois.edu/fellowship/listing/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 2016-2017. Previous recipients of the fellowship are not eligible for nomination.

Please ensure that the following materials are submitted by 5 pm on 1/29/2016 to Colin Robertson (colinr@illinois.edu, 2233 SC):
1) Up-to-date CV.
2) Research Summary. Nominees should submit 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. To give as thorough a summary as possible of the proposed research, nominees should explicitly 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) Letter of support from the student's adviser, discussing the relevance and significance of the research, the student's academic and research accomplishments, and the student's specific stage in the degree program (milestones passed, requirements remaining to be completed, and estimated length of time to degree completion).

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.