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Scholarships & Fellowships for Graduate Students

IUPUI Earth Sciences Air & Waste Management Association Scholarship

The Air and Waste Management Association Scholarship is a new scholarship being offered to IUPUI Earth Science (Geology and Environmental Science) students. The AWMAS will award 1 undergraduate and 1 graduate student $750 each to apply towards their education. Applicants must be a current graduate student in Geology, or current undergraduate student in Environmental Science or Geology with a minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA. Undergraduate applicants must have successfully completed at least 9 credit hours towards their degree program and be enrolled in 6 or more credit hours each semester. Graduate student applicants must be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours per semester.

Award Amount: $750 each (1 undergraduate student, 1 graduate student)

Deadline:

March 22, 2013

Application:

Upload to ES Scholarship Oncourse site:  Application, resume, and responses to essay question on application form

Scholarship Contact:

For additional information, you may contact Ann Park.

University Fellowship

Eligibility: University fellowships are open to new students not currently or previously enrolled at IUPUI or IU. To be eligible for the University Fellowship, candidates must have a Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores in the 80th percentile with a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or equivalent.

Duration: 1 year.

Deadline:

Graduate admissions application must be on file with IUPUI no later than January 1 for the fall semester. 

Application:

No separate application is required.

Scholarship Contact:

Research Investment Fund (RIF) Fellowship

Provides supports to graduate students involved in research from a block grant from the University through the Research Investment Fund.

Eligibility: All students accepted to the graduate program are eligible.

Duration: 1 year, though it may be renewed.

Deadline:

Graduate admissions application must be on file with IUPUI no later than March 15 for the fall semester. 

Application:

No separate application is required.

Scholarship Contact:

International Student Grant Program

The International Student Grant program provides scholarships to international undergraduate and graduate degree-seeking students who have a strong academic record and who are experiencing severe financial hardship. The student must hold F-1 or J-1 student visa status, be assessed tuition at the out-of-state rate, and have completed at least two semesters of full-time coursework at IUPUI at the time the award begins.

Award Amount: Varies.

Deadline:
  • April 1 (Fall semester)
  • November 1 (Spring semester)
Application: Scholarship Contact:

Office of International Affairs at (317) 274-7000 or intlaff@iupui.edu.

Robert Noyce Transition to Teaching Scholarship

The Robert Noyce Transition to Teaching Scholarship program (T2T) provides $12,000 stipends for career-changers or college graduates who wish to become certified math or science teachers, and agree to teach in high-need school districts for two years. The T2T program is highly selective and rigorous, with hours of embedded field placement.

Robert Noyce Scholarship recipients are awarded on the basis of academic merit, with consideration given to the established financial need and diversity of applicants in the program. To be considered, applicants must be admitted to the IUPUI's One-Calendar-Year Transition to Teaching program in the School of Education, and must hold a bachelor degree (or adequate content course work preparation) in biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences/geology, mathematics, engineering, or technology.

Deadline: Application: Scholarship Contact:

T2T Noyce Scholarship

The Secondary Transition to Teaching Program (T2T) at IUPUI is a 12-month pathway to teacher licensing at the graduate level that prepares middles school and high school teachers. The T2T Noyce Scholarship is available to those who will teach science or mathematics in high-need schools.

Award Amount: $12,000 stipends to bachelor degree holders who had a major or adequate content course work preparation in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Science (Geology), Mathematics, Engineering or Technology and plan to become certified science and mathematics teachers in the secondary education (grades 6-12)

Deadline:

February 7

Application: Scholarship Contact: