Ford Fellowship

Each year, juniors with strong academic records are nominated by faculty to apply for the Ford Fellowship program. Approximately 10 students are selected by a committee of three faculty and the director of the Gerald and Carol Vovis Center for Research and Advanced Study.

As a Ford Fellow, you'll participate in a weekly seminar during the winter term covering topics related to successfully attaining an advanced degree and preparing for a career in teaching or research. Ford Fellows also receive a sizeable stipend to pursue an independent research, scholarly, or creative project -- usually over the course of the summer before your senior year.

• Application process and eligibility guidelines

Many Ford Fellows continue their work through the Honors Program during their senior year.

Recent Ford Fellowships

Biology

• A Survey of Genotypic and Phenotypic Differences Between Mutation Accumulation Lines of Drosphila melanogaster (conducted at the Department of Genetics at North Carolina State University)

Chemistry

• The Kinetic Study of Degradation of Cyclopentaine and Methylcyclopentane

Creative Writing

• Participation in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program at Naropa University
• The Impacts of Place on the Creative Process: Peru
• A Map of Voices: The Knox Writer's House Project

Economics

• Field work in the Philippines on the capabilities of microfinance to support a market for micro-renewable energy

English Literature

• Process and Product through Teaching and Poetry (and an internship with Rhino Poetry Magazine)

Environmental Studies

• To Market, To Market: An Investigation into the Way We Eat

Media Studies

• The Multidisciplinary Pedgagogical Potential of the Contemporary Television Serial

Psychology

• Exploring Positive and Negative Social Changes in the Lives of Terminally-Ill People

Psychology and Modern Languages

• An Inquiry into the Origins of Genocide through Comparison of Two Cases of German Perpetrated Genocide: The Herero Genocide of the Early Twentieth Century and the Holocaust