International Scholarships & Fellowships
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Students pursuing an international degree or research area may be able to take advantage of several special Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources (FER) funding opportunities designated specifically for students with a global focus.
If you are a graduate student, you may also want to review Financial Support in our Graduate Students section or look at the links for prospective students. For a look at other support opportunities open to international FER students, please visit the NC State Office of International Students and see the links here.
Gunnar and Lilian Nicholson Graduate Fellowships: awarded to Swedish graduate foresters studying forest genetics and forest management at N.C. State. Successful applicants receive funding for a period of three years to earn a Ph.D. degree. This award includes an $24,000 annual stipend plus all tuition, student fees, and health insurance. Students are also granted one round-trip airfare per year for travel to Sweden for purposes of promoting the Nicholson exchange program. Nicholson Fellows are prepared for international careers through work on cutting edge issues ranging from conservation of genetic diversity in the tropics to tree improvement and silviculture of temperate and northern species. Swedish students who are interested in details may wish to read documents prepared by previous Swedish students on the Nicholson fellowship. For more information on Nicholson Fellowships, please email Dr. Steve McKeand or contact him at (919) 515-6073.
Camcore Stipends: Camcore offers three partial stipends for graduate studies at NC State. Students representing CAMCORE companies are given first priority in receiving these stipends to conduct research internationally, but occasionally stipends are made available to individuals not associated with the Cooperative. Graduate studies with CAMCORE emphasize improving our knowledge about tropical and subtropical forest species. For more information on Camcore stipends, please email Dr. William Dvorak or contact him at (919) 515-6426.
Forest Nutrition Cooperative Assistantships: for outstanding individuals pursuing an MS or PhD degree with NC State’s Forest Nutrition Cooperative, one of the world's leading forest research and education programs. Awards are typically available in specific areas of research, some of them international in nature. Please contact Lee Allen or call (919) 513-4043 for more information.
The Bruce and Barbara Zobel Endowment for International Forestry Studies was established in 1998 to instill an international perspective in forestry students and to enable them to obtain first-hand experience with forestry in diverse environments around the world. In the past, the Endowment has funded both supplemental scholarships for graduate students and mini-grants to undergraduate and graduate students for travel to other countries. For descriptions of research partially funded by the endowment, see reports by Rodrigo Arriagada, Greg Frey, Rafael Rubilar, and Mike Tighe. The endowment offers $1,000 mini-grants for students to travel to other countries with an agenda that includes silviculture and production forestry. Reports by the recipients of the 2007 mini grants, Matt O'Drsiscoll, Susan McIntyre and Dae-Hyun Yoo, are in 2008 Sylvanet. Grants are being offered in 2008.
The Chile Forestry Exchange Program is offering two travel grants of $1500 each for undergraduate or graduate students in the DFER to undertake internships with the private or public sector in Chile. For more information, contact Drs. Susan Moore, Doug Frederick, or Erin Sills.
Scholarships for Study Abroad:
The department offers scholarships of $400 to $800 for students studying abroad for a semester, summer, or entire academic year. To be eligible for these scholarships, students must apply through the Study Abroad Office, which has two application deadlines every year.
Swedish Women's Educational Association Scholarships are available to support a person or an organization with ties to North Carolina in their studies or their efforts to advance/share knowledge of Swedish culture, traditions, language, history, or society. However, outstanding scholars in any field of study (from North Carolina-based institutions, pursuing research or studies in Sweden, or vice versa) are invited to apply, as the scholarship is more broadly intended to foster worthwhile scholarly exchanges between Sweden and North Carolina. For more information contact northcarolina@swea.org.
