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            SCHOLARSHIP AND FELLOWSHIP NEWS        October 2000
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                 a monthly e-mail newsletter from the
Fellowship Resource Advising Center


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On-line resources
The Fellowship Resource Advising Center web page (www.cmu.edu/adm/frac) has
a number of resources that will help you in your search for external
funding:

- a searchable data base of over 600 external scholarships and fellowships
- on-line registration--we will send you information about scholarship and
fellowship opportunities that you might be interested in throughout the year
- links to other databases and resources

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Upcoming deadlines

For more information on any of these scholarships and fellowships (and
links to their websites) please visit our web site(www.cmu.edu/adm/frac)
or stop by and see us (Warner Hall 429 and 404) or contact the campus
representative.

Scholarship/Fellowship Churchill
campus rep James Cummings (jcumming)
Jeniffer Church (jcdg)
website   hometown.aol.com/churchillf
deadline 11/15/00

Scholarship/Fellowship Department of Defense
campus rep Janet Stocks (stocks)
website www.asee.org/ndseg/
deadline 1/15/01


Scholarship/Fellowship Goldwater
campus rep Tony Rollett (rollett)
Paul Fowler (fowler)
website www.act.org/goldwater
deadline November 15


Scholarship/Fellowship Hertz
campus rep Steve Garoff (sg2e)
Janet Stocks (stocks)
website www.hertzfndn.org
deadline 11/3/00


Scholarship/Fellowship Luce
campus rep Nancy Klancher (klancher)
Barbara Lazarus (lazarus)
website www.hluce.org
deadline November 23


Scholarship/Fellowship Madison
campus rep Kiron Skinner (kskinner)
Janet Stocks (stocks)
website www.jamesmadison.com
deadline 3/1/01


Scholarship/Fellowship Mellon
campus rep David Gass (dgass)
website www.woodrow.org/mellon
deadline 2/8/00


Scholarship/Fellowship National Science Foundation
campus rep Janet Stocks (stocks)
Paul Fowler (fowler)
website www.orau.org/nsf/nsffel.htm
deadline 11/7/00


Scholarship/Fellowship Soros
campus rep Paz Macias (paz)
Paul Fowler(fowler)
website www.pdsoros.org
deadline 11/30/00


Scholarship/Fellowship Truman
campus rep Jay Devine (jd0x)
Lisa DeFrank Cole (lisad)
website www.truman.gov
deadline 10/6/00

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Hurry deadline fast approaching.......

� Hispanic Scholarship Fund  -
(Awards generally range from $1,000 to $3,000)
� Be of Hispanic background
� U.S. Citizen or a Permanent Resident
� Have earned at least 15 undergraduate college credits
� GPA 2.7 on 4.0 scale

Applications are available in the Fellowship Resource
Advising Center, Warner Hall 429
Application deadline: October 15

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Nomination guidelines and forms now available at http://www.usatoday.com/
Nomination deadline:  November 30

USA Today's 2001 All-USA College Academic Team
(Students will be named to the First, Second, and Third Teams and
will be featured in the nation's newspaper.  The 20 members of the
first Team each will receive a $2,500 cash  award and will be guests
at a special awards luncheon)

� Any full-time undergraduate of a four-year institution in the United
States or its territories
� U. S. citizenship is not required
� A full-time undergraduate is one carrying at least 12 credits
   in pursuit of an undergraduate degree


****** Carnegie Mellon's, Rhodes Scholar, Cindi Dennis
was named to the 2000 All-USA College Academic Team ******

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GET AN EARLY START!!!!

These opportunities can be found on the FRAC and foundation websites

PA Space Grant Consortium
http://www.psu.edu/spacegrant
deadline:  December 1, 2000

AT&T Undergraduate Research Program
http://www.research.att.com/academic/
deadline:  December 1, 2000

GEM Engineering Fellowship
http://www.nd.edu/~gem/
deadline:  December 1, 2000

The Link Foundation Energy Fellowship
www.linkenergy.org
deadline:  December 1, 2000

Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories
Cooperative Research Fellowship for Minorities
http://www.bell-labs.com/fellowships/
deadline:  December 20, 2000

Merrill Lynch Innovation Grants
http://www.ml.com/innovation/
deadline:  December 15

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NEW Scholarship announcement!!!

RIA Robotics Scholarship Competition

Robotics Industries Association (RIA) is sponsoring a scholarship to
encourage and support undergraduates interested in robotics technology.
For more information
Contact Kim Varner at RIA Headquarters at 734/994-6088
or kvarner@robotics.org.  Information is also available at
www.roboticsonline.com.  deadline:  December 15

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Face-to-face help
If you would like to recieve face-to-face help in locating scholarship or
fellowship opportunities that would be best suited to you, please e-mail to
make an appointment:
Fran Branzel, Scholarship Coordinator, fb11
Janet Stocks, Director,  stocks


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                Fellowship Resource Advising Center
                     Janet Stocks, Director
   Fran Branzel, Scholarship Coordinator
                 Carnegie Mellon - Warner Hall 429
                 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pgh. PA 15213
                 (412) 268-1969, (412) 268-6159FAX
                           stocks@cmu.edu
                        www.cmu.edu/adm/frac/
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