UAlbany Student Fellowship & Funding Navigator

WELCOME FROM PRESIDENT & VICE PROVOST

Dear Students,

At the University at Albany, the opportunities for you to excel and prepare for a bright future are simply extraordinary. One new opportunity that we’re launching and are particularly proud of is the “UAlbany Student Fellowship and Funding Navigator” – an online platform aimed at connecting students to scholarly funding and lifelong success.

Winning Student Funding: A highly rewarding pathway for students is the pursuit of fellowships, research assistantships, and other extramural funding opportunities that promise to shape the future direction of students in countless ways. Such awards not only provide you with direct financial support, but often open new doors to advance students’ educational and career pathways.

How Students Benefit: In addition to student financial support, winning a student fellowship, assistantship or another funding opportunity affords students with a range of high-impact direct benefits:

• Education, Research and Service: Students often have the opportunity to pursue a range of scholarly activities involving innovative research, education and training, and community engagement and public service.
• Learning from Mentors: Students will have opportunities to directly learn from faculty mentors and advisors to further their education and career development.
• Accolades and Recognition: Student awards are also a point of pride with students often being recognized for their special talents, initiative, creativity and demonstrated hard work.

Numerous Funding Opportunities: Today, over 1,000 active fellowships and funding opportunities nationwide are available for students to access. These funding opportunities will enable you to expand your training both inside and outside the classroom, engage in cutting edge research and scholarship, experience working in a professional organization, make a difference in an underserved community, study abroad in a foreign country, and much more.

Getting Started: We encourage you to take some time to navigate and check out the “UAlbany Student Fellowship and Funding Navigator” to learn how you can take advantage of the funding opportunities you’re eligible for.

As you’ll see, the platform is designed to showcase how students can be successful in competing for these awards and why they are truly worth students’ time and effort. Specifically, the platform highlights the various types of awards available, the strategies and steps to develop a winning application, and how to connect immediately with a faculty mentor and research administrator to help you succeed.

We hope you find this platform valuable and look forward to your pursuing promising funding opportunities in the weeks and months ahead.

Sincerely,