Grants and Fellowships | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 72

Beverly Anderson Scholarship for Women, George Mason University, Virginia

AAUW is a national organization that promotes education and equity for all women and girls. The AAUW Educational Foundation funds research on girls, education, and community action projects. and provides fellowships and grants to outstanding women around the globe. The Fairfax City Branch of AAUW is offering a scholarship to a woman who has returned to college after an interruption to her college career and is pursuing a bachelor’s degree at George Mason University. The scholarship amount may be as much as $2500 (actual amount will be determined by March 15, 2011) and must be used by the end of the 2011-2012 academic year.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 April 2011

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Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Fellowship, USA

The Moody Medical Library of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is pleased to offer the Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Fellowship to support research related to the history of medicine conducted at the Moody Medical Library. The Truman G. Blocker, Jr. Fellowship will provide between $2,000 and $4,000 per year to support travel, lodging and incidental expenses for the period between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011. Upon completion the recipient will deliver a paper at the University of Texas Medical
Branch outlining the research, provide an expense report and a copy of the final research product. The University of Texas Medical Branch also reserves the right to post excerpts from the work, a photograph and biographical material of the Fellow on our website .

Scholarship Application Deadline: April 1st, 2011.

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Isaac Newton – Dorothy Emmet Research Fellowships at Lucy Cavendish College, UK

Lucy Cavendish College is offering two stipendiary Research Fellowships and one non-stipendiary Research Fellowship for women, who hold PhDs.  For research in the Arts and Humanities, with a preference for Law and English. The stipend for each of these Research Fellowships will be £17,111 per annum, depending on funding already available to the candidate.Candidates who wish to hold the Research Fellowship on a part-time basis will also be considered, in which case the stipend would be pro-rata.The successful candidates will be expected to undertake four hours of small group teaching a week, to become members of the College, to reside in Cambridge and to participate fully in College life.  The appointments will be for one year in the first instance from 1 October 2011 and will be renewable annually until 30 September 2014, when the Research Fellowships will terminate. The Research Fellowships are subject to satisfactory progress and annual reports.Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, in an area that relates scholarship to current issues facing the world.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 2 March 2011

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