UB MFA student featured in GradImpact
3/11/22

GradImpact highlighted Schomburg Fellow Edreys Wajed's artistic accomplishments in a recent feature.

UB student receives Rangel Fellowship
5/12/22

Aspiring diplomat Sophie May is the first UB student to win the prestigious Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship.

Seven Fulbright winners match UB’s record year
5/12/22

Seven UB students and alumni have won Fulbright awards, the prestigious national scholarship competition for grants to study, research and teach abroad.

UB students awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
5/12/22

Paul Dewan Jr., Krish Patel and Meghan Sullivan are among a competitive pool of national applicants to receive 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarship Awards.

UB graduate student wins American Heart Association fellowship
4/11/22

Epidemiology graduate student Kexin Zhu will investigate whether climate change and air pollution relate to high blood pressure and hypertension

The 2023-2024 Fulbright competition is now open!
4/19/22

Apply for a Fulbright grant to fund your study/research project or to participate in an English teaching assistant program abroad.

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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

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

  • 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

    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

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

  • 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.

  • 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

    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.

  • 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

    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

    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.