Fellowships
Fellowships are awards that typically require no service. Most fellowships are awarded on the basis of academic merit and potential for scholarship.
The following awards for 2013-2014 are offered through the Graduate School:
- Graduate Diversity Enhancement Fellowships - This fellowship will provide financial support to first-time enrolled graduate students demonstrating significant potential to contribute to the educational mission of the Graduate School by presenting one or more of a wide range of diverse attributes. The Graduate School seeks to recruit, enroll, and retain qualified students who will benefit from educational and social interactions with peers who come from different backgrounds and who have different life experiences, perspectives, and goals. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
- Graduate School Fellowships - is funded by endowments from Isobel Griscom, Bruce Painter and Eva Woody Seaton, and Mary Phipps Shepherd. The fellowship is open to graduate applicants who demonstrate successful academic and professional performance. Only students in their first semester of graduate work as degree-seeking students are eligible. The award will provide a $5,000 stipend, paid over 10 months for full-time study in a graduate program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Requires admission into degree program and to the Graduate School. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
- Lori Mayer Re-Entry Women's Graduate Fellowships - open to entering graduate women students who are U.S. citizens, 27 years of age or older, and who have been out of a formal educational program for at least five years. Awards $7,000 stipend for two consecutive terms. Requires admission to degree program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and to the Graduate School. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
- UTK-ORNL Distinguished Fellowship - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have established a new joint Ph.D. graduate fellowship program beginning in fall 2010. Successful graduate applicants will simultaneously gain experience in both academic and national lab settings, while pursuing engineering and scientific research related to national energy-related priorities. Applications from students with backgrounds in physics, materials science, materials engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering, nuclear engineering, and computational science are welcome. This highly competitive program offers an annual stipend of $30,000 for up to five years. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
- Yates Dissertation Fellowships - open to University of Tennessee, Knoxville graduate students in good standing who will have completed admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree and will have reached dissertation stage prior to Fall of that year. Awards of $15,000 paid in monthly installments for two consecutive semester. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
- J. Wallace & Katie Dean Graduate Fellowships - This fellowship is available to students only through a nomination process. Prospective students may not obtain application for the fellowship from the Graduate School. To be eligible, the nominee must be a first-time enrollee in Fall in a graduate degree program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Awards will be made to selected students who are nominated by academic departments* offering graduate programs. Nominees must be fully admitted graduate students who will be engaged in full-time graduate study at UTK. Stipend of $15,000. Applications are only available through academic departments*. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
- Herman E. Spivey Graduate Fellowships - This fellowship is available to students only through a nomination process. Prospective students may not obtain application for the fellowship from the Graduate School. To be eligible, the nominee must be a first-time enrollee in Fall term in a graduate degree program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Awards will be made to selected students who are nominated by academic departments* offering programs in humanities, including Art, English, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, History, Music, Philosophy, and Theatre. Nominees must be fully admitted graduate students who will be engaged in full-time graduate study at UTK. Stipend of $15,000. Awarded on merit. Applications are only available through academic departments*. For additional information about the fellowship, application procedures and forms, please click here.
* Departments may retrieve applications for the J. Wallace & Katie Dean Graduate Fellowships and Herman E. Spivey Graduate Fellowships through the Graduate School Blackboard site. Department Directors of Graduate Studies will choose nominee and submit all required materials to the Graduate School . Departments must provide a graduate assistantship (GA, GTA, or GRA) of at least 25% FTE for nominee of Dean and Spivey fellowships. For questions, contact desensi@utk.edu.
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