Fellowships
Several fellowship opportunities are available to graduate students in the Illinois-Indiana region. Fellowships include governmental internships in Washington D.C., funding to support research and a yearlong assignment at the Great Lakes Commission in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Fellowships are typically announced in the fall with applications due in the spring, although dates vary from year to year.
OPEN
- CILER Great Lakes Summer Student Fellowship
Application deadline: March 1, 2013
CLOSED
- Great Lakes Commission/Sea Grant Fellowship
- John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship
- NOAA Fisheries Service/Sea Grant Fellowship in Population Dynamic
- NOAA Fisheries Service/Sea Grant Fellowship in Marine Resource Economics
- NOAA Coastal Management Fellowship
- U.S. EPA STAR Graduate Fellowship
- The Smithsonian Institution Graduate Research Fellowships
Our Current Fellows
- Najwa Obeid, Knauss Class of 2013, Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF)
- Will Tyburczy, Knauss Class of 2013, Office of Program Planning and Integration (US NOAA, NMFS, SF)
Recent Knauss Fellows - Where are they now?
- Priscilla Viana - 2010
ARCADIS - Mike Allen - 2010
Maryland Sea Grant - Angela Deen - 2009
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Min-Yan Lee - 2009
Economist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute - Mark Carter - 2008
Environmental Biologist, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Anne Readel - 2007
Perkins Coie LLP - Kenli Schaaf - 2006
Deputy Associate Director for Policy Outreach, While House Council on Environmental Quality - Kate Van Holle - 2006
Public Affair Coordinator, American Geophysical Union - Bridgett Chapin-2005
- Adrienne Froelich - 2000
Director of Public Affairs, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography - Edmund Buckner - 1999
Professor, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff - Holly Koehler - 1999
- Jeffrey Stein - 1998
Research Director of the State Wide Creel Survey Program, Illinois Natural History Survey
National Marine Fisheries
- Cameron Speir - 2006
"Incorporating Contaminant Levels into Models of Fishing Location Choice: An Application to Fisheries in the Great Lakes"
Economist, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, CA
Coastal Management Fellowship
- Jason Lederer - 2004
Great Lakes Commission/Sea Grant Fellowship
- Lisa Kock - 2000
