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Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship Program
Updated!
AdvanceVT and the Virginia Tech Graduate School is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the inaugural Clare Boothe Luce Fellowship Program for the 2007-08 academic year. Funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, fellowships are available to females pursuing graduate education in the physical sciences, mathematics, or engineering fields. Virginia Tech is offering two (2), four (4) year fellowships for incoming female Ph.D. students, with US citizenship, in the physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
The Clare Boothe Luce Program stands alone as the single most significant source of private support for women in science, engineering and mathematics. Clare Boothe Luce, the widow of Henry R. Luce, was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut. She appreciated, however, that many women face obstacles in their chosen professions. In her magnificent bequest establishing this program, she sought “to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach” in the sciences (including mathematics) and engineering. More information about the Clare Boothe Luce program is available on their website.
The Clare Boothe Luce Fellowships will provide funding (including a 1:1 match by Virginia Tech) in the amount of $30,000 per recipient, per year, for four years of study and research at the doctoral level. Additionally, tuition, academic fees and health insurance will be covered, and a $3,000 research allowance will be provided.
Fellowship applications will be reviewed by a faculty panel reflecting diverse disciplines, and selection will be based on the following criteria:
- quality of career plan and applicant’s potential for success,
- mentoring plan,
- letters of recommendation, and
- nomination form from departmnet.
Instructions, further information and the nomination form may be found here.
These items are due to the Graduate School by February 16, 2007. Applications should be sent to:
Dean Karen DePauw
or delivered to the dean’s office at 235 Graduate Life Center.
Questions about this program can be directed to the AdvanceVT Program Director Peggy Layne at 231-9948, AdvanceVT@vt.edu, or Nancy Feuerbach, Assistant to the Dean of the Graduate School, at 231-7581 or nancy@vt.edu.
After review, fellowship candidates may be invited to the Virginia Tech campus for a personal interview.
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