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Here is how our winners are making headlines at UB.

  • GEM Fellowship Program
    7/30/25
    The GEM fellowship program invests in a competitive American workforce by supporting high-caliber students looking to pursue Master's and Doctoral degrees in applied sciences and engineering, and matches their specific skills to the technical needs of GEM employer members. Through the fellowship, students receive full financial support and a paid internship. The program has received a Presidential Award for its impact in STEM and has produced over 5,000 leaders in STEM.
  • Three engineering students win coveted Goldwater scholarships
    4/7/15

    The award winners - from the Buffalo, Syracuse and Albany areas - were chosen from a nationwide pool of 1,206 students.

  • National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Awards (NSF DDRI)
    7/30/25
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) offers Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants (DDRIGs), allowing doctoral students to undertake significant data-gathering projects and conduct field research in settings away from their campus.
  • Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program
    7/28/25
    The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories.  The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students (US citizens or lawful permanent residents) to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities.
  • Rhodes Scholarship
    7/25/25
    The Rhodes Scholarship programme is the oldest (established 1903) international scholarship in the world. Administered by the Rhodes Trust in Oxford, the programme offers over 100 fully-funded Scholarships each year for postgraduate study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom—one of the world’s leading universities. Rhodes Scholarships are for young leaders of outstanding intellect and character who are motivated to engage with global challenges and are committed to the service of others. They show promise of becoming value-driven, principled leaders for the world’s future, wherever their careers might take them, and in any field. 
  • Marshall Scholarship
    7/25/25
    The Marshall scholarship enables students to study a wide range of subjects for an advanced degree at any of Britain’s universities and business schools. Funding is for one or two years of graduate study in any field at participating universities.
  • CMU Rales Fellows Program
    7/14/25
    This program was established for empowering first-generation and under resourced domestic students by reducing barriers to graduate education will increase the number of voices within STEM research, education and innovation, and help the U.S. meet the growing need for a new generation of leaders.
  • ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowship
    7/2/25
    ACM SIGHPC created the Computational and Data Science Fellowships to increase the diversity of students pursuing graduate degrees in data science and computational science. Specifically targeted at women or students from racial/ethnic backgrounds that have not traditionally participated in the computing field, the program is open to students pursuing degrees at institutions anywhere in the world.
  • DojoGrants Research Fellowship
    6/26/25
    DojoGrants is an initiative run by Nucleate Dojo designed to remove financial barriers for undergraduate students pursuing life sciences research. As the first institution-agnostic, year-round funding program for undergraduate biotech researchers, they provide direct funding, mentorship, and community to promising students across the U.S. and Canada.
  • Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship Program
    6/20/25
    The Arthur A. Schomburg Fellowship (also known as the SUNY Graduate Diversity Fellowship Program) is designed to direct aid to graduate/professional students who have demonstrated academic achievement and overcome a disadvantage or other impediment to success in higher education. Candidates will contribute to the diversity of the student body by demonstrating their commitment to facilitating and enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in their academic programs and/or activities. The Schomburg Fellowship is intended to support high-achieving doctoral students. Recipients of Schomburg Fellowships must be new to the degree program; however, students who have previously earned a master's degree or who are currently enrolled in a master's degree program and are applying to transition into a doctoral program are eligible to receive a Schomburg Fellowship. Recipients must be fully funded, including a teaching, graduate or research assistant position.