National Scholarships and Graduate Fellowships
Undergraduate Fellowships | Postgraduate Fellowships | Graduate School Funding | Fellowship Recipients|
Fellowships are nationally competitive and highly regarded awards that provide significant funding to allow select students and alumni to participate in sought-after opportunities both in the United States and abroad. Some of these include advanced academic research, graduate school funding, and short-term employment. We use the term "fellowship" interchangeably with "scholarship" and "grant." The 海角社区Office of Fellowships serves both current 海角社区students and alumni.
About the Fellowships Advisor
Dr. Tiffany Kershner is the Director of the 海角社区Office of Fellowships and has served as UNF's Fellowships Advisor since 2019. She holds a master's in Anthropology from SUNY-Albany, a masters in Linguistics from Indiana University, and and doctoral degree in Linguistics and African languages from Indiana University. After completing her doctorate, she served two years as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton College, followed by faculty positions at UNC-Greensboro and Kansas State University. Dr. Kershner joined North Carolina State University in Fall 2011 as their new Coordinator for Distinguished Scholarships and Fellowships and later was promoted to Director of the Fellowships Advising Office. In February of 2019, Dr. Kershner joined Hicks Honors College as their Associate Director of Fellowships and was promoted to Director of the Office of Fellowships in 2023. Amongst her other work, Dr. Kershner has earned both a Fulbright Research Grant and a National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant.
The Fellowships Advisor serves 海角社区students by:
- Sharing information on award opportunities and application procedures
- Reviewing and critiquing application essays
- Providing institutional endorsement for each applicant who receives a campus nomination (for the awards that require a nomination/endorsement)
- Submitting application materials on behalf of nominated/endorsed applicants
- Staging mock interviews for applicants selected for semi-final and final interviews
Dr. Tiffany Kershner
Undergraduate Fellowships
Languages, International Travel, Education, Humanities, Social Sciences
- Critical Language Scholarship
- Boren Awards
- Benjamin A. Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship
- Freeman-ASIA
- Fulbright UK Summer Institutes
- Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship
- James Madison Fellowship
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology, STEM Education
- Amgen Scholars
- National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (REUs)
- Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship
- Benjamin A. Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship
- DAAD RISE
- Goldwater Scholarship
- Hollings NOAA Scholarship
- AAA Mass Media Fellowship
Public Service, Environment, Leadership, Human Rights
- Humanity in Action
- Charles B. Rangle International Affairs Program
- Udall Undergraduate Scholarship
- Udall Native American Congressional Internship
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship
- PPIA Junior Summer Institutes
Explore the Extraordinary with Dr. Kershner!
Postgraduate Fellowships
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology, STEM Education
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program
- National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
- Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship
- Hertz Fellowship
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program
- Knowles Science Teaching Foundation Scholarship
Languages, International Travel, Education, Humanities, Social Sciences
- Critical Language Scholarship
- Boren Awards
- Benjamin A. Gilman Study Abroad Scholarship
- Freeman-ASIA
- Fulbright-research, English teaching, or graduate school funding
- Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship
- James Madison Fellowship
- Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET)
- Henry Luce Scholarship
Public Service, International Affairs
- Humanity in Action
- Charles B. Rangle International Affairs Program
- Harry S. Truman Scholarship
- Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship
- Scoville Peace Fellowship
- Payne International Development Fellowship
Graduate School Funding
- Fulbright U.S. Research/Study Grant
- Rhodes Scholarship
- Marshall Scholarship
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
- Schwarzman Scholarship Program
- Knight Hennessy Scholars Program
- Ellison Institute of Technology Scholarship (Oxford University only)
- Clarendon Scholarship (Oxford University only)
- Ertegun-Oxford (Oxford University only)
