Major scholarships and fellowships are among the highest honors that undergraduates or recent graduates can achieve. Many scholarships and fellowships offer recipients the chance to study or conduct research abroad while others fund post baccalaureate education at a significant level.

Major scholarships and fellowships build on a student’s undergraduate achievements in important ways and the benefits of winning such awards are numerous. Major scholarships and fellowships not only reward academic performance and commitment to community, but compliment other areas of life as well. Such awards are gateways to significant career opportunities and personal and intellectual growth.

These prestigious awards are highly competitive, but in the past five years UAA has had four consecutive Truman Scholars, one Research Fulbright Scholar, one Teaching Fulbright Scholar, and a Marshall Scholar.  There are many major scholarships and fellowships, each with a different application procedure and timeline.  Visit the OURS website to find a listing of opportunities and how to apply for these prestigious awards. 

Rebekah Moras Fulbright_web Rebekah Moras, BA in Languages and Psychology, with her faculty mentor Dr. Natasa Masanovic, won a prestigious Teaching Fulbright for 2007-2008.  She will be spending a year teaching English to German middle and high school students.