MSU Graduate School Fellowships

The following fellowships are administered by The Graduate School. The application process for each fellowship varies. Due dates are generally updated during the summer. Please click on the fellowship for more information on eligibility and application information.

King-Chávez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship Program (FFF)

Established by the Michigan Legislature in 1986 and named in honor American civil rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), César Chávez (1927-1993), and Rosa Parks (1913-2005), the King-Chávez-Parks (KCP) Initiative is comprised of seven different programs. Applications from minorities, women, people with disabilities, and individuals from cultural, linguistic, geographic, and socio-economic backgrounds who would otherwise not adequately be represented in the graduate student and faculty populations are encouraged to apply.

Due Date: 
Friday, March 3, 2023
Funding Amount: 
$35,000

Shobha Ramanand Graduate Fellowship in Memory of Dr. Kruger and Dr. Sweitzer

Shobha Ramanand was born in 1952 in India. After a successful career in the Indian Civil Services, Shobha moved to Lansing, Michigan to pursue her Master’s and PhD at Michigan State University. In 1988, she received her Master’s in Labor and Industrial Relations from the College of Social Science.

Due Date: 
Monday, October 16, 2023
Funding Amount: 
$4,000

The Rose Graduate Fellowship Fund in Water Research Graduate Student Award

The Rose Graduate Fellowship in Water Research will benefit students enrolled in any graduate program at MSU to help to address the looming global water crisis and support the next generation of scientists who will help us solve water problems here in Michigan, the Great Lakes, nationally, and globally.

Due Date: 
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Funding Amount: 
$2,000

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation and Environmental Leadership Fellowship

Leadership is the key to effective and efficient management, protection, and conservation of natural resources. To address complex interdisciplinary problems facing the health and welfare of these resources, it is necessary to foster and nurture the development of practical skill sets that enhance leadership.

Due Date: 
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Funding Amount: 
$3,300

TIAA Ruth Simms Hamilton Graduate Merit Fellowship

The fellowship provides support for MSU doctoral students whose dissertation research is related to the African Diaspora (i.e., research that is focused on any aspect of the communities of people descended from the voluntary or forced historic movement of African peoples to other parts of the world and who are usually connected back in some way to Africa) and honors the high standards Dr. Hamilton set.

Due Date: 
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Funding Amount: 
$35,000

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