UB Student Receives Department of Energy Fellowship
9/16/21

Courtney Shafer will be studying ice sheets and climate change, with a focus on vertical tunnels called moulins that form in the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Attend a Workshop
9/16/21

With topics ranging from funding your PhD, to finding global opportunities or funding for STEM students, attending a workshop is the best first step in discovering awards.

UB Student Receives Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship
9/28/21

Carol Ramos-Gerena will examine how agroecological farmers networks in Puerto Rico can change land use policies that better serve them and increase a culture of health in their communities.

Mentorship Program Connects Underrepresented Students With Peers
9/16/21

The Schomburg-Honors mentorship program connects underrepresented Schomburg fellows and Honors College students interested in graduate school.

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Discover Opportunities

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Fellowships and scholarships are among the most valuable forms of aid you can receive during your college career and are designed to support students who have exceptional academic records and potential.

Meet With Us

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UB students and alumni can meet with our staff to discuss scholarship opportunities. We strongly suggest you attend a workshop or watch the Fellowships and Scholarships 101 video series before scheduling a meeting.

Scholar Spotlight

  • 7/6/21

    Sharon Lin, a 2016 UB Graduate and Recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, has chosen to pursue her PhD in chemical engineering at MIT.

  • 1/20/21

    Called a “rising star” by top engineering faculty and administrators, Ian DesJardin stands out among the university’s exemplary students. His mission: launching a satellite built at UB to gather data on space debris to provide a way to better track the debris and hopefully avoid collisions with active satellites.

  • 7/6/21

    Ali Al Qaraghuli chose electrical engineering because it is a common platform that combines multiple interests. The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship affords Al Qaraghuli the opportunity to do further research in a field that interests him.

  • 6/14/21

    Madelaine Britt, a 2017 UB graduate and recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, aids in the revitalization of the streets of New York City.

  • 7/6/21

    Patricia Johnson, a 2015 UB Graduate, is a PhD student in chemistry at Duke University conducting research in Switzerland on a Fulbright grant.

  • 1/20/21

    At 26, UB alumna Christine Tjahjadi-Lopez, a global entrepreneur, human rights activist, teacher and philanthropist, is already changing the world.

  • 7/6/21

    Kayleigh Hamernik, an environmental studies major, also minors in Asian studies. She will study Hindi at the American Institute of Indian Studies in Jaipur, Rajasthan. 

  • 7/6/21

    Dante Iozzo, a 2016 UB graduate and recipient of the NSF GRFP Award, studies theoretical astrophysics at Cornell University.

  • 1/20/21

    Jenny Simon received a Critical Language Scholarship in 2018 and has applied for a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Mongolia to pursue her dreams of learning more about China and becoming a teacher.

  • 7/6/21

    Izzy Starr has received a prestigious fellowship from Microsoft Research. The Ada Lovelace Fellowship is a new fellowship for Microsoft Research and Starr is one of the first five students to receive it.

  • 7/6/21

    When one of Mariangela Perrella’s faculty mentors wrote her a recommendation for the Fulbright Scholarship, she called Perrella a “thinking dancer and a dancing thinker.” She combines a passion for integrating dance and movement with innovative classroom techniques that help teach children with special needs.

  • 7/6/21

    Sean Kaczmarek was chosen to receive a Marshall Scholarship, one of the most selective graduate fellowships available to American undergraduates and an honor many consider the country's most prestigious scholarship.

  • 7/6/21

    Conor McMahon, a 2019 UB Graduate spent summer 2019 studying Mandarin in Taiwan on a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) and has chosen to pursue a PhD in philosophy at the University of Oklahoma.