About the Office of National Scholarships
The Office of National Scholarships (ONS) recruits and mentors high-achieving students to compete for prestigious national and international scholarships. ONS nominates candidates for competitions that require institutional endorsement, like the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, Goldwater, Udall, Truman, and Carnegie Jr. Fellows competitions. We also support students applying for prestigious competitions that do not require nomination like the Gates Cambridge, Javits, Madison, Knowles, NSF Graduate, NIH Partnership and many more. Students are encouraged to visit ONS early in their college careers to consider their options.
To become a strong candidate for a prestigious scholarship, candidates must maintain excellence in their coursework and research as well as demonstrate leadership and involvement in their extracurricular pursuits. Talk to your faculty and follow the links on our advice page: Become a Strong Candidate.
Preparing early to apply for a prestigious scholarship can broaden your intellectual horizons, focus your goals and help you articulate yourself as a scholar.
Visit our office in the Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE) 416 to learn how you can be competitive. Drop by or make an appointment with the Director, Dr. Jill Deans, 486-0087, ons@uconn.edu or contact Marlene Coughlin, 486-6255, with questions.
If you are seeking nomination for a scholarship, clink on the links to the left for more information. After you’ve learned about the scholarship, you will need to fill out a pre-application for our campus competition.
Looking for Other Scholarships?
Here are links to information about scholarships not administered by the Office of National Scholarships.
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News, Events and Deadlines |
Congratulations to our Truman Nominees: Charlotte Freeland, Jigish Patel, Claire Simonich & Sam Tracy
Congratulations to our Goldwater Nominees: Rory Geyer, Anna Green, Ragini Phansalkar & Tyler Reese
Congratulations to our Udall Nominees: Kelsey Sullivan, Skyler Marinoff, Angela Les & Manisha Bicchieri
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MORE Deadlines:
Jan. 27: Wellstone Fellowship for Social Justice DUE
Jan. 27: AP-Google Journalism & Tech DUE
Jan. 30: Davis Summer Language Fellowship DUE
Jan. 30: PRSSA/Yoshimura Scholarship DUE
Jan. 31: NSEP Boren UGrad Scholarship DUE
Jan. 31: DAAD RISE DUE
Jan. 31: DAAD Summer for Journalism DUE
Jan. 31: DAAD UGrad Scholarship DUE
Jan. 31: Josephine De Karman Fellowship DUE
Jan. 31: Killam Fellowship (Canada) DUE
Jan. 31: Koch Summer Fellows DUE
Feb 1: Heritage Foundation Summer Internship in DC (rising jrs and older interested in national security, etc.) DUE
Feb 1: Stacey Scholarship Fund (traditional art) DUE
Feb 1: NIH Undergraduate Scholarship Program
(frosh, sophs, jrs: biomedical, behavioral and social sciences) DUE
Feb 3: Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship
(Foreign Service) DUE
Feb 6: Laura Bush Traveling Fellowship DUE
Feb 7: Truman Scholarship nominee applications DUE
Feb 9: NSEP-Boren Undergraduate Scholarships DUE
Feb 9: Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship (juniors) DUE
Feb 10: Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award (srs) DUE
Feb 10: Teach for America DUE
Feb 10: BMI Student Composer Awards DUE
Feb 11: Point Foundation National LBGT Scholarship DUE
Feb 11: Rangel Int’l Affairs Summer Enrichment Program
(sophs and jrs, Foreign Service)
Feb 13: Davis Projects for Peace
(see Jill Bruins at the Kroc Institute) DUE
Feb 15: DAAD-UAS7 Study & Internship Program in Germany
(soph & jrs) DUE
Feb 15: Freeman-ASIA (undergrads in East and
Southeast Asia)(Summer award) DUE
Feb 15: Society of Women Engineers
(graduating seniors and undergraduates) DUE
Feb 17: American Society of Naval Engineers
(juniors+) DUE
Feb 18: USA Today’s All-USA College Academic Team (srs) DUE
Feb 22: California Capital Fellows Program
(srs: CA Assembly, Senate, Executive and Judicial fellowships) DUE
Feb 24: GFOA Government Accounting and Finance Scholarships (undergraduates) DUE
Feb 28: National Association for Black Accountants Scholarship DUE
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