COLLEGE PARK, MD (June, 2016) This year, three Ph.D. students in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology (HDQM) have been awarded Summer Research Fellowships by the Graduate School of the University of Maryland. Xiaying Zheng, a doctoral student in the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation (EDMS) program, joins two Human Development Ph.D. students, Brandee Feola and Jeeyoung Noh, as recipients of this fellowship.
The Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship provides support to doctoral students at “mid-career” – that is, in the period approximately before, during, or after achievement of candidacy. The fellowship is intended to enable doctoral students to work diligently over the summer to prepare for or complete a benchmark in their program’s requirements, in order to reduce the time needed to complete a degree and enhance the quality of the graduate student experience. Thus, the fellowship provides doctoral students an opportunity to concentrate fully on their scholarly activities and research, for the duration of a summer, at a critical moment in their graduate studies.
The fellowship includes a stipend of $5,000, half of which comes from the Graduate School and half of which comes from an awardee’s department – in this case, HDQM. The fellowship is not intended for dissertation completion, and there is no tuition award.
Eligible candidates must be doctoral students who have excellent qualifications, are making demonstrable progress through their program, and can show that a summer of focused work will enable them to prepare for or complete a key benchmark in their program’s requirements.
Eligible students must be nominated by their unit. Each department/program may nominate up to two students for the Summer Research Fellowship and up to two students for the related but more narrowly targeted Kulkarni Fellowship. Nominations are usually due to the Graduate School in early March; however, departments may set their own internal deadlines.
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