The Chancellor's Distinguished Fellowship is a prestigious award to qualified Ph.D. students in STEM disciplines at North Carolina A&T State University. The fellowship aims to increase the number of native Black Americans earning a Ph.D. degree in STEM disciplines through a financial assistance program. It consists of a stipend and supplemental benefits funded through a Title III HBGI grant from the U.S. Department of Education awarded for one academic year at a time.

Each fellowship will be for $39,600 for 12 months.

The Boren Fellowship funds graduate students to obtain long-term linguistic and cultural immersion abroad. The award provides funding to study overseas in geographical areas for languages critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad. My fellowship funded 25 weeks in five culturally distinct regions of Tanzania in East Africa for the Swahili language. I am pictured with Dr. Joachim Kisanji of MS-TCDC receiving a certificate of achievement for completing his intermediate Swahili course.

Each fellowship is for up to $25,000 for up to 12 months.

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Each scholarship is for up to $10,000 for an academic year.

HSF empowers students and parents with the knowledge and resources to complete higher education while providing support services and scholarships to as many exceptional students, HSF Scholars, and Alumni as possible. Every year, HSF selects 10,000 outstanding students as HSF Scholars from a broad and talented pool of applicants and awards more than $30 million in scholarships annually. Scholars are chosen based on merit.

Award amounts range from $500 - $5,000, based on relative need.

FLAS Fellowships support students taking less commonly taught language and area studies coursework. This program provided me with a summer graduate fellowship to attend Howard University's African Language Summer Institute to study Swahili at the intermediate level.

The goals of the program are 1) to assist in developing knowledge, resources, and trained personnel for modern foreign languages and area/international studies, 2) to stimulate the attainment of foreign language acquisition and fluency, and 3) to develop a pool of international experts to meet national needs.

Awards consist of $5K for tuition and fees and a $2.5K stipend.

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Each scholarship is for $10,000 for an academic year.