Fellowship

Dear Colleague,

The Dow Sustainability Fellows Program is now accepting applications for its Doctoral Fellowship Program, which offers up to $50,000 in funding support and inclusion in a vibrant "Community of Scholars"to exceptional Ph.D. students conducting interdisciplinary research related to sustainability. A key part of the Fellowship Program is that it is multi-disciplinary in nature, so we encourage doctoral students from all schools, colleges, and units at the university to apply.

This component of the Dow Sustainability Fellows Program rebrands and expands U-M's existing interdisciplinary sustainability two-year doctoral fellowship program, previously known as the Graham Doctoral Fellows program. A total of 10 doctoral students who have completed at least one full year of their doctoral program prior to January 2013 (and who will not finish their program before December 2014) will be selected.

NOTE: Students can only be nominated by their dissertation advisor, and each faculty member can nominate only one student per year. Students who have secured nomination support from their dissertation advisor must submit an "Intent to Apply" by February 1, 2013. This submission will trigger requests for faculty advisors to submit nomination and recommendation letters. Complete student applications and faculty nomination and recommendation letters are due February 15, 2013.

If you have students who would be interested in applying for this prestigious program, then please review the full Request for Proposals (RFP). If you have any questions or comments, please contact the Graham Institute’s Education Director, Mike Shriberg, at (734) 647-6227 or mshriber@umich.edu.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Don Scavia 
Graham Family Professor and Director, Graham Institute
Special Counsel to the U-M President on Sustainability
Professor, School of Natural Resources & Environment
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering