Awards and Their Recipients

Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide funding for students to intensively study a critical language in a country that speaks the language. Summer awards are available for STEM majors.

Boren Award applications are due in January.

Past Recipients

Boren Awards

Sponsored by the US Department of State, CLS is an immersive summer opportunity for college students to learn languages essential to America's engagement with the world.  

Past Recipients

Critical Language Scholarship

Past Recipients

• Nick Warren '24
• Annelise Belfie '23
• Emma Scheve '19
• Annemarie Morach '18
• Heidi Grompe '17
• Pearl Kahle '17
• Danielle Childs '16
• Caroline Harpster '16
• Kristen Jakstis '16
• Carissa Luebbering '15
• Leah Becker '14
• Sarah Croy '14
• Rebecca Larrabee '14
• Rachel Hinnen '12
• Holly Duffy '12
• Luke Hill '12
• Jocelyne LaFortune '12
• Mary Dolan O'Brien '12
• Becca Otto '12
• Elizabeth Banicki '10
• Jenni Keating '10
• Katie Weltner '10
• Fabian Schöppner '09
• David Gregg '08
• Vanessa Curwen '07
• Jeffery Fanning '05
• Randy Howell '05
• Amy Kintner '05
• Jared Frye '04

Austrian-American Education Commission English Teaching Assistantship

Past Recipients

• Isabella De Mattos '23
• Dylan Hite '19
• Elizabeth Bailey '18
• Raluca Gosman '18
• Sarah Hantke '18
• Goshina Meman '18
• Madeline Otto '18
• Mark Steele '17
• Kelsey Takahashi-Brummer '17
• Emma Bauer '17
• Jennavieve Kunz '17
• Clare Munger '15
• Douglas Blair '15
• Kealey Johnson '16
• Clare Munger '16
• Britta Geisler '15
• Julia Maynard '15
• Rubama Nasir '15
• Michael Buker '14
• Makena Collin '13
• Nicole Fleury '13
• Daniel Lunchick-Seymour '13
• Sarah Wong '13
• Eleanor Thompson '12
• Sarah Kries '12
• Helena Lukoski '12
• Jessica Marsh '12
• Jenny Gresham '11
• Cameron Faltersack '11
• Nathan Haskell '10
• Joseph Horlacher '09
• Megan Kuensting '09
• Elizabeth Holloway '09
• Alice-Louise Rossignol '08
• Kevin Field '07

Teaching Assistant Program in France (TAPIF)

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is an academic cultural ambassador program that provides funding for students to do research, teach English, or attend graduate school abroad after completing their baccalaureate degree. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think.

This award requires an institutional endorsement. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, 503.943.8264 or scholars@up.edu, if you are student wishing to inquire about how to secure an institutional endorsement.

Fulbright applications are due in October.

Past Recipients

Fulbright U.S. Student Program

The Gilman Scholarship is an undergraduate grant program for U.S. citizens of limited financial means to enable them to study abroad and internationalize their outlook, better preparing them to thrive in the global economy.

This award requires an institutional endorsement. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, 503.943.8264 or scholars@up.edu, if you are student wishing to inquire about how to secure an institutional endorsement.

Past Recipients

Gilman Scholarship

The Goldwater Scholarship is a monetary award for high-achieving sophomore and junior students planning careers in STEM research.

This award requires an institutional endorsement. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, 503.943.8264 or scholars@up.edu, if you are student wishing to inquire about how to secure an institutional endorsement.

Past Recipients

Goldwater Scholarship

The Hollings Scholarship is open to sophomores planning careers in oceanic and atmospheric science, research, technology, and education. The scholarship provides tuition support and paid summer internships with NOAA.

Past Recipients

• Lauren Arkoosh '16
• Sarah Donohoe ’15

NOAA Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship

Each year, through the James C. Gaither Junior Fellows program, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers approximately 15 one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year.  This fellowship is for students interested in foreign policy leadership.

James C. Gaither Junior Fellows Program

The Marshall Scholarship provides funding for high-achieving students with demonstrated leadership to attend two years of graduate school in the United Kingdom. Marshall Scholars are selected based on academic merit, leadership potential, and ambassadorial potential.

This award requires an institutional endorsement. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, 503.943.8264 or scholars@up.edu, if you are student wishing to inquire about how to secure an institutional endorsement.

Past Recipients

Marshall Scholarship

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.

Past Recipients

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program

Princeton in Africa is the only leadership-development program of its kind currently operating on the African continent. Fellows engage in yearlong, full-time fellowships and make significant contributions to the success of each host organization, while deepening their understanding and appreciation for the advancement of African affairs.

Princeton in Africa

Princeton in Asia fosters mutual appreciation and cross-cultural understanding between the United States and Asia through immersive work fellowships in host organizations and communities.

Princeton in Asia believes in the power of person-to-person diplomacy. They strive to shape a world where individuals share a mutual appreciation and respect for our planet’s diversity of cultures and perspectives.

Princeton in Asia

The Truman Scholarship provides students planning careers in public service (government, military, education, or nonprofit service) with money for graduate school. Scholars are selected during their junior year of college based on the following criteria: extensive record of campus and community service; commitment to a career in government or the nonprofit and advocacy sectors; communication skills and a high probability of becoming a "change agent"; and strong academic record with likely acceptance to the graduate school of the candidate's choice.

This award requires an institutional endorsement. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, 503.943.8264 or scholars@up.edu, if you are student wishing to inquire about how to secure an institutional endorsement.

Past Recipients

Truman Scholarship

The Udall Scholarship is a monetary award for sophomore and junior students based on their leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or to the environment.

This award requires an institutional endorsement. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, 503.943.8264 or scholars@up.edu, if you are student wishing to inquire about how to secure an institutional endorsement.

Past Recipients

Udall Scholarship

The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) is a fellowship funded by the German Bundestag and U.S. Department of State, that provides American and German young professionals, between the ages of 18-24, the opportunity to spend one year in each other’s countries, studying, interning, and living with hosts on a cultural immersion program.

Past Recipients

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals

The DOE Office of Science Graduate Fellowship program (SCGF) has supported outstanding graduate students pursuing graduate training in basic research in areas of physics, biology (non-medical), chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computational and computer sciences, and environmental sciences relevant to the Office of Science mission areas to encourage the development of the next generation of scientific and technical talent in the U.S.

Past Recipients

Department of Energy Science Graduate Fellowship

The German Chancellor Fellowship supports young leaders who work in a sector such as politics, economics, the media, administration, and culture while spending a year working on a project the applicant developed with a host of their choice in Germany.

Past Recipients

German Chancellor Fellowship

The German Academic Exchange Service provides scholarships and grants for undergraduate and graduate students to study, do research, or intern in Germany. Both German language study and study in a specific discipline are available, with many academic programs being offered in English.

Past Recipients

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Discover the Lafayette Fellowship, a new scholarship from the French Embassy in the United States, for the next generation of young leaders with a strong interest in renewing the transatlantic relationship. Marking 250 years of French-American friendship, this fellowship fully funds up to 30 American students for one year of master’s study in France in STEM, the humanities and social sciences, or the arts, offering access to top universities and a robust leadership development program.

Layfayette Fellowship

Established in 1974, the Luce Scholars Program is a competitive leadership development fellowship that provides emerging leaders with immersive professional experiences in Asia. They aim to strengthen relationships across borders by offering Scholars opportunities to deepen their understanding of Asia's countries, cultures, and people. Through this yearlong immersion, the Program equips scholars with knowledge and skills to address global leadership challenges and build a more interconnected world.

Luce Scholars Program

Project Horseshoe Farm offers a Community Health Gap Year Fellowship for top recent college graduates from across the country. They also offer Internships for top undergraduate, masters, post-baccalaureate, and health professions students.

Working as teams with ongoing teaching and mentorship, Fellows and Interns participate in and learn from Horseshoe Farm’s innovative 6 pillar approach to helping our vulnerable neighbors, strengthening local communities, and preparing tomorrow’s community health and citizen service leaders.

Project Horseshoe Farm Community Health Fellowship

The Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program sends young biomedical engineers anywhere outside the U.S. or Canada for one or more of the following activities: conducting academic or scientific research in a university or laboratory, pursuing coursework at an academic institution, or interning at a policy institute, or in an industrial or non-profit setting.

Past Recipients

Whitaker International Fellows and Scholars Program