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- The online application for the Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship is now available.
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- Online Applications Now Open:
• Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate and Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowships
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Application Deadlines:
- December 15, 2008: The Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship
- December 19, 2008: The MMUF Dissertation Grants
- February 6, 2009: The Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship
- February 3, 2009: The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship
- March 20, 2009: The MMUF Travel & Research Grants
Fellowships
Six decades ago, the Woodrow Wilson Fellowships—a bold new initiative to meet the nation’s need for college teachers—began at Princeton University. Today, the Foundation has a suite of Fellowships that support the development of future leaders at a variety of career stages in several critical fields.
Teaching
- The Leonore Annenberg Teaching Fellowship—a national "Rhodes Scholarship" for teaching—will go to outstanding recent college graduates and career-changers who agree to work in urban and rural secondary schools serving high proportions of disadvantaged students.
- The Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellowship seeks to attract talented, committed individuals with backgrounds in mathematics, science, engineering, and technology into teaching in high-need Indiana high schools.
Foreign Affairs
- The Thomas R. Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship prepares outstanding college students for the Foreign Service.
- The Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship offers master's students a gateway into the Foreign Service.
Conservation
- The Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program is the United States’ premier leadership development program for master’s students committed to careers in conservation.
Women & Gender
- Since 1974, the Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies has been the only national program supporting original, significant, interdisciplinary doctoral dissertations on women’s issues.
Religion & Ethics
- The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships support the final year of work on Ph.D. dissertations dealing with ethical or religious values in fields across the humanities and social sciences.
Access & Opportunity
- The MMUF Dissertation Grants support former Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows who are at the dissertation stage of a Ph.D. program.
- The MMUF Travel and Research Grants help defray costs of dissertation fieldwork for former Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows.
- The Career Enhancement Fellowship



