There are several graduate fellowships and awards available to UNCG graduate students.  Nominations for graduate fellowships must come from Dean's, Department Heads, or Directors of Graduate Study.  Nominations for Outstanding Dissertation Awards must come from Department Chairs of doctoral departments.  The following pages include descriptions of different fellowships that are available, the Outstanding Dissertation Award, and copies of the forms to be used in making nominations.

Hayes and Excellence Fund Fellowships:  Nominees must be doctoral students newly admitted for Fall Semester 1997.  Each program may nominate up to four individuals for these awards.

Alumni Fellowship:  Criteria are the same as for the Hayes and Excellence Funds.  Each program may nominate up to two individuals for this award.

Weil Fellowship:  Nominees must be UNCG alumni, newly admitted to graduate school at UNCG, and enrolled on a full-time basis.

Josie Nance White Fellowship:  Nominees must have completed a minimum of twelve credit-hours toward a doctoral degree in either Human Development and Family Studies or Curriculum and Teaching with an emphasis in Early Childhood Education.  Recipients may hold an assistantship.  Each program may nominate one individual for this award.

Minority Presence Graduate Award:  Nominees must be African American, residents of North Carolina, admitted to a doctoral program at UNCG, and enrolled full-time.

Greensboro Graduate Scholars:  Fellowships ranging from $2,000 for master's or MFA students to $3,000 for doctoral students will be awarded to new (not previously enrolled) students who possess outstanding academic records.  These students must also have been recommended by the department for a regular graduate research or teaching assistantship, and in the case of out-of-state students, a fee waiver.  Departments with doctoral and/or masters programs will be permitted to nominate up to 30% (or 2 students, whichever is greater) of the new recruits to whom they will offer assistantships for the 1997-98 academic year.

Lyon Fellowship:  Nominees may be beginning or continuing students in any program including the performing and visual arts.

Recipients of the Excellence, Alumni and Weil Fellowships will be expected to enroll as full-time students and the department must be willing to allocate a fee waiver to any out-of-state recipient.

Transcripts, test scores, and recommendations on file in the Graduate School will be used by the committee in its evaluation.  Copies of goal statements or other additional data on file in the department may accompany the nomination.