Opportunities for First-Year Students

http://www.rangelprogram.org/summer-enrichment-program/

The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Summer Enrichment Program is a six-week summer program with two major components. 

1. First, in order to enhance participants' academic preparation to work in international affairs, the Program provides two courses that focus on enhancing knowledge and skills related to U.S. foreign policy, economics and writing.
2. Second, in order to provide greater insight into the foreign policy-making process and international affairs careers, the Rangel Program introduces the participants to a wide range of government and non-government professionals who work on global issues and also arranges visits to various governmental and non-governmental institutions involved in international affairs.
3. The Program also helps students explore graduate school and professional options in international affairs. 

Application period: November to February

https://www.fulbright.org.uk/our-programmes/undergraduate-and-pre-university-programmes/uk-summer-institutes/

The Fulbright UK Summer Institutes are 3-4 week programs for U.S. undergraduate students, who have no or very little travel experience outside North America. Participants can explore the culture, heritage, and history of the UK while experiencing higher education at a UK university.

Participants have the option to study at one of the following top UK institutions:

• Aberystwyth University
• Queen’s University Belfast
• University of Bristol
• University of Exeter
• University of St Andrews
• Glasgow School of Art and University of Strathclyde

Application period: November to January

https://www.borenawards.org/eligible-programs

Boren Scholarships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests, and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The countries of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are excluded.  Boren Scholars represent a vital pool of highly motivated individuals who wish to work in the federal national security arena. In exchange for funding, Boren Scholars commit to working in the federal government for at least one year after graduation.

Maximum awards are determined by duration abroad:

• Up to $25,000 for 25-52 weeks (preferred)
• Up to $12,500 for 12-24 weeks
• + Up to $8,000 for 8-11 weeks (STEM majors only)

Application period: October to January

https://www.bridgingfoundation.org/scholarships#:~:text=Bridging%20Scholars%20use%20the%20funds,deadline%3A%20March%2015%2C%202024.

The Bridging Scholarship is a life-changing opportunity to study abroad in Japan in a credit-bearing semester or academic-year program. Each year approximately 70-100 academically outstanding, financially deserving U.S. undergraduate students are selected as Bridging Scholars. In addition to receiving a cash stipend, Bridging Scholars participate in cohort programming designed to assist students build a future as a global citizen with a lifelong connection to Japan.

The term of study can be the Fall 2024 semester, the 2024-25 academic year, or the Spring 2025 semester. These scholarships are not given for summer study programs in Japan.

Application deadline: March

https://clscholarship.org/

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an immersive, in-person summer opportunity for American college and university students to learn languages essential to America's engagement with the world.

Each summer, American undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities across the country, spend 8-10 weeks learning one of thirteen languages at an intensive study abroad institute abroad. The CLS Program is designed to promote rapid language gains and essential intercultural fluency in regions that are critical to U.S. national security and economic prosperity.

Language program offered (No prior language study required):

• Azerbaijani
• Hindi
• Indonesian
• Persian
• Portuguese
• Swahili
• Turkish
• Urdu

Language program offered (Requires one prior year of study --OR-- CLS Spark participation):

• Arabic
• Chinese
• Korean
• Russian

Language program offered (Requires two prior years of study)

• Japanese

Application period: October to November

CLS Spark is a virtual 8-week initiative for U.S. undergraduate students to learn languages essential to America’s engagement with the world. Designed to leverage best practices in online language learning developed by the CLS Program during the pandemic, CLS Spark provides American students the opportunity to study critical languages virtually when they may not have access to studying these languages on their campuses.

Applicants to CLS Spark can choose one of three languages that are critical to America's national security and economic prosperity when submitting their applications:

• Arabic 
• Chinese 
• Russian 

This virtual program is specifically for students with no formal classroom experience learning the language.

Application period: October to November

100 Fellowship for Peace are offered to cover the full cost of summer language study from beginner to graduate levels. At the Middlebury campuses students can study one of many languages:

• Arabic
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Hebrew
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish

Two applications are required:

• One to Middlebury Language School of choice---submit by the priority deadline in November. Application materials: https://www.middlebury.edu/language-schools/admissions
• One to Fellowship for Peace. Application materials: https://www.middlebury.edu/language-schools/funding/fellowships-scholarships/davis

Application deadline: November

https://www.iie.org/programs/freeman-asia#.WLW5dxLsKV4

Freeman Awards for Study in Asia (Freeman-ASIA) provides scholarships for U.S. undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need to study abroad in East or Southeast Asia.

Application period: TBA

https://www.gilmanscholarship.org/

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue academic studies abroad. Students are encouraged to choose non-traditional study abroad destinations, especially those outside of Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Gilman Scholarship Program aims to support students who have been traditionally under-represented in study abroad, including but not limited to, students with high financial need, community college students, students in under-represented fields such as the sciences and engineering, students with diverse ethnic backgrounds, and students with disabilities.

Fall application period: August to October

Spring application period: January to March

https://www.killamfellowships.com/programs/killam-fellowships/americans.html

The Killam Fellowships Program provides an opportunity for exceptional undergraduate students from universities in the United States to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in Canada. Students may participate in the program either as a direct exchange student (registering at their home university, paying their home fees, and attending the host university as an exchange visitor) or as a self-placed visiting student (registering at the host university and paying host tuition fees). Applicants interested in the direct exchange program must be registered at one of the participating American universities and be planning to visit one of the participating Canadian universities.

Application period: August to January

https://echoinggreen.org/fellowship/

Echoing Green supports bold leaders from all over the world who see possibility in the face of the most existential challenges of our day. Together, they strive to build a world that has yet to exist: a future free from racism and its far-reaching consequences where all people can thrive.

This Fellowship is for people whose enterprises are at an early stage and who are experts on the challenge they’ve chosen to confront. The program seeks leaders who reflect the community they serve and bring deep knowledge of the issues into their work as they co-design solutions with and for their communities. Fellows receive support in the form of capacity building, capital, community, wellness and wellbeing resources, seed funding, and expert mentorship.

Fellows are lifelong members of Echoing Green’s community and work across issue areas to advance equity, including education, climate justice, human rights, health, and more.

Application deadlines: TBA 

*Sign up here for updates: https://echoinggreen.org/fellowship/apply/updates/)

http://www.davisputter.org/

The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund provides financial support for students who are active and emerging organizers in progressive movements for liberation, self-determination, and social and economic justice in their communities. Grantees are doing work that does/can potentially undermine the US empire, characterized by an opposition to capitalism, racism/white supremacy, hetero patriarchy and gender-based violence, environmental exploitation and/or other forms of systemic harm and oppression.

Application period: January to April

Projects for Peace is an initiative for students at Davis UWC partner schools, including Whitman, to design grassroots projects for the summer - anywhere in the world - which promote peace and address the root causes of conflict among parties. The program encourages applicants to use their creativity to design projects and employ innovative techniques for engaging project participants in ways that focus on conflict resolution, reconciliation, building understanding, and breaking down the barriers that cause conflict. Projects that work to maintain peace will be selected for funding at $10,000 each.  

Application period: September to February

Campus deadline: TBA (usually early January)

*Important: a campus nomination is required to apply for this award. A Whitman committee will review all applications, interview a short-list of applicants, and select one nominee and one alternate. Middlebury will make the final review and selection of projects. Applicants submit all materials to Jenny Stratton, Administrative Assistant for Fellowships and Grants, at strattjm@whitman.edu by the campus deadline.

Application requirements:

• Written statement (two pages max, single spaced) that describes the project (who, what, when, where, how) --- refer to the Project Cycle management tool for guidance in creating a thoughtful, meaningful project. 
• Statements of approval from all parties and organizations involved in the project 
• Budget  
• Transcript(s) for each applicant (unofficial)
• Letter of recommendation (1) and contact information for a second recommender (required of each applicant in a group proposal)

https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.jsp

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds a large number of research opportunities for undergraduate students through its REU Sites program. An REU Site consists of a group of ten or so undergraduates who work in the research programs of the host institution. Each student is associated with a specific research project, where he/she works closely with the faculty and other researchers. Students are granted stipends and, in many cases, assistance with housing and travel. Undergraduate students supported with NSF funds must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possessions. An REU Site may be at either a US or foreign location.

Students must contact the individual sites for information and application materials. NSF does not have application materials and does not select student participants. A contact person and contact information is listed for each site.

You may examine opportunities in the subject areas supported by various NSF units: 

Astronomical Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5045 

Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10020

Biological Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5047

Chemistry: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5048

Computer and Information Science and Engineering: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5049

Cyberinfrastructure: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10526

Department of Defense (DoD): https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10023

Earth Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5050

Engineering: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10006

Ethics and Value Studies: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10024

International Science and Engineering: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10003

Materials Research: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5052

Mathematical Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5044

Ocean Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5053

Physics: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=69

Polar Programs: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=72

Small Business Innovation Research: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10539

Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=5054

STEM Education: https://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.jsp?unitid=10021

https://www.nist.gov/surf/surf-program-research-opportunities-boulder-colorado

Boulder, Colorado, Laboratories' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program provides research experience for students majoring in science, mathematics, and engineering. Opportunities are available in the fields of:

• Chemical Engineering 
• Electrical Engineering 
• Information Technology 
• Materials Science 
• Physics

Application period: December to February

https://www.nist.gov/surf/surf-gaithersburg/research-programs

Gaithersburg, Maryland, Laboratories' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program provides research experience for students majoring in science, mathematics, and engineering. Opportunities are available in the fields of:

• Chemical Engineering 
• Electrical Engineering 
• Information Technology 
• Materials Science 
• Physics

Application period: December to February

https://www.breakthroughcollaborative.org/

Breakthrough is the largest pre-professional teacher training program in the United States. Breakthrough Collaborative trains college-aged teaching fellows to create empowering educational experiences for highly motivated, traditionally underrepresented middle school students on their path to college. Each year Breakthrough connects 10,000 students with 1,100 college-aged Teaching Fellows in 25 cities across the country.

Application period: December to February