Doctoral Scholarship for Underrepresented Students

Submit electronically to Laura Thomas lshirley@umich.edu

This fund provides support to doctoral students who meet one or more of the following criteria and who demonstrate unmet financial need due to a life crisis or some other foreseeable circumstance. Students may receive support from this fund in the amount of $500 per year per student. One student per year may receive support.

• Come from an educational, cultural or geographic background that is underrepresented in graduate study in their discipline in the United States or at the University of Michigan;
• Has experienced financial hardship as a result of family economic circumstances;
• Are first-generation U.S. citizens or are the first generation in their families to graduate from a four-year college.

(Doctoral Scholarship for Underrepresented Students Application](https://ssw.umich.edu/sites/default/files/documents/phd/funding/doctoral-scholarship-for-underrepresented-students-application.pdf)