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Graduate School Fellowship

  •  Open to both MS and PhD students, both new and continuing
  • Provides a year of stipend, tuition, and health insurance
  • To apply reference above Graduate School link.
  • Urban Studies Deadline: January 5th

Graduate School Dissertation Award

  • Open to current UWM PhD students who have either achieved dissertator status or will achieve dissertator status by September 1 of the award year
  • Apply to the USP office, which forwards nominees to the Graduate School
  • Urban Studies Deadline: January 5th

Advanced Opportunity Program

  • Renewable awards for new and continuing qualified graduate students who are members of groups underrepresented in graduate study or who are otherwise disadvantaged. Applicants must be American citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
  • To apply reference above Graduate School link.
  • Urban Studies Deadline: January 5th

Graduate School Student Travel Award

  • Supports graduate student travel to conferences to present research
  • Maximum award of $500 for master’s students
  • Maximum award of $1000 for Doctoral students
  • To apply reference above Graduate School link.
  • Deadline: rolling

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.