Introduction

This web page is designed to help you identify scholarship and fellowship programs appropriate to your professional interests, your level of academic accomplishment, and your status as either an undergraduate or graduate student. These are not programs funded from within the University of Arizona. If that is what you are seeking, you should see the Scholarship Office in Old Main.

The Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships in the Honors College, headed by Dr. Karna Walter, seeks to assist you in refining your goals and perhaps winning one of these very prestigious awards. This web page is a first step in that process. Use it to get a rough idea about which scholarships you could seek. Follow the links to particular scholarship or foundation websites, go through those websites thoroughly (many have very detailed advice), then come to us to discuss your plans. We will do everything possible to assist you in your quest.

Congratulations to the following students who have won scholarships (or been named finalists) in 2006:

Fulbright Scholars - find out more about the Fulbright Scholarship

Jeff Banister*

Erica Bigio*

Margaret Camp*

Julie Chen

Catherine Dooley

Nicole Eggers

Ryan Johnson

John Klingemann*

Emily Lundin*

Maria Munoz*

Lia Ruggeri

Goldwater Scholars - find out more about the Goldwater Scholarship

Caitlin Casey

Grace Hsieh

Jill Craven - Goldwater Honorable Mention

David Hernandez - Goldwater Honorable Mention

Marshall Scholar - find out more about the Marshall Scholarship

Ajit Divakaruni - Undergraduate Senior, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

For the first time since 1997, the UA has a recipient of the Marshall Scholarship, a prestigious national award that provides recipients with full funding of $60,000 for two or three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom. Scholarship winner Ajit Divakaruni, a senior majoring in biochemistry, mathematics, and molecular and cellular biology, said he will use the funding to pursue a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University.

He is working toward three degrees, all at the baccalaureate level with honors, in the departments of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Mathematics, and Molecular & Cellular Biology. He has maintained a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout this exceptionally difficult course of study involving multiple honors courses in all three departments. Ajit as an excellent student. He is in fact the kind of student that one sees perhaps 2 or 3 times in an entire career.

Truman Scholars - find out more about the Truman Scholarship

Dan Tuttle - Undergraduate Senior, International Studies and Economics

UA senior Daniel Tuttle has been awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship, given to only 75 students nationwide for their leadership potential, intellectual ability and the likelihood of making a difference. Tuttle, a senior in the University College and the Honors College, is majoring in international studies and economics. He has a commitment to international public service. Currently studying in Chengdu, China, Tuttle eventually wants to “help broker a role for China in East African economic development, channeling part of China’s growing economic might toward socially-responsible investment.” The Truman scholarship was awarded by Madeline Albright, president of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, provides $30,000 for graduate students and priority admission to some premier graduate institutions.

Ryan Johnson - Truman Finalist

Ana Muniz - Truman Finalist

Udall Scholars - find out more about the Udall Scholarship

Jill Craven

Julia Jolley

*Master’s or Ph.D. student