Deadline for receipt of all application materials and endorsements in the office of Graduate School Academic Affairs, 106 Verhagen Hall is:

Friday, February 29, 2008

Materials are to be directed to the attention of Ronald W. Rebore, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, The Graduate School, 106 Verhaegen Hall, 3634 Lindell Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri, 63108-3395

Each award includes an $11,000 stipend and a six credit hour tuition scholarship for each of the two sememsters during the nine-month 2008-09 academic year. The award is non-renewable. No other fellowship, traineeship, assistantship, or similar appointment may be held concurrently. The Graduate School anticipates making six (6) awards for the nine-month period.

 Eligibility is limited to formal Candidates for the Ph.D. degree at SLU. Applicants for the nine-month awards must have signed candidacy papers filed with the Doctoral Candidacy Advisor (105 Verhaegen Hall) no later than Monday, March 3, 2008. Awardees will not be permitted to hold a concurrent appointment or employment during the award period and should anticipate completion and approval of their dissertation by the late Spring or Summer 2009.

 Application is to be made in the form of a letter with enclosure from the graduate student. The letter must contain his or her mailing address, major field, career ambitions, and the relationship of graduate education and the dissertation to those ambitions. The required enclosure is a 300-400 word description of the study or the project underway, written in language understandable to the general professoriate outside the major field. The description should include the problem statement or research question(s), what is known about the subject, the significance of the applicant’s research, the approach to be taken and anticipated outcomes.

 Endorsement or recommendation for the award must be provided, also in letter form, by the application’s dissertation advisor. Without fully describing the project/study, the mentor is to overview the Candidate’s research and writing progress to date and to state why the applicant is deserving of the award.

 Evaluations of applications will be the responsibility of an appointed committee of Graduate Faculty. The committee will have access to filed dissertation outlines. Recipients of awards will be announced in April 2008.