Attend a Workshop
6/14/21

Attending a workshop is the best first step in discovering awards that work for you. With topics ranging from funding your PhD, to finding research and funding for STEM students, to finding global opportunities, we've got a workshop for you.

Three From UB Win Student Fulbright Awards
6/25/21

One current student and two UB alumni and have won Fulbright awards, the prestigious national competition for grants to study, research and teach abroad in 2021-22. The three winners—joined by two UB alternates—were especially notable this year because of the disruption to the program from the pandemic.

Mentorship Program Connects Underrepresented Students With Peers
6/25/21

The Schomburg-Honors mentorship program connects underrepressented Schomburg fellows and Honors College students interested in graduate school. In their roles as mentors in the program, Schomburg fellows offer undergraduates from the Honors College advice and direction to help them advance both personally and professionally.

UB Doctoral Student, Jamal Williams, Receives NIH Diversity Award
6/14/21

Jamal B. Williams is on his way to completing his doctorate in neuroscience at UB. He is also on his way to a postdoctoral position, thanks to an award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health.

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Summer 2021 Office Availability

The Office of Fellowships and Scholarships is operating remotely for the summer 2021 semester. Join us for Fellowships and Scholarships 101 to learn about opportunities or schedule an appointment to meet with us (via Zoom).

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

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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

    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.

  • 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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

    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

    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

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

  • 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.