What do these various deadlines mean?

Campus Deadline: If an award has a campus deadline, you are required to apply through the MU Fellowships Office. Awards with campus deadlines require that you are endorsed the University of Missouri. Applicants must turn in a complete application to the Fellowship Office the posted campus deadline.

Priority Deadline: If an award has a priority deadline, you are not required to seek the advice of the Fellowships Office on your application although we highly encourage you to do so. The priority deadline is a suggested date for when you should have a well developed application.

Final Deadline: This deadline is the time your completed application is due to the program(s) to which you are applying. We sometimes call this date the “national deadline.” If you do not submit your materials to the program the final deadline, your application will not be considered. Not to fear though. Your fellowships advisor will do everything he or she can to encourage you to submit your application several days prior to a final deadline!

• Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship

  The Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship trains and inspires new leaders in the movement to end hunger and poverty in the United States. Fellows gain vital first-hand experience through placements with community-based organizations across the country as well as policy-focused organizations in Washington, D.C. The program bridges gaps between local efforts and national public policy, as fellows support partner organizations with program development, research, evaluation, outreach, organizing, and advocacy projects.

• Blakemore Freeman Fellowships

  Fellowships are awarded for one academic year of full-time, intensive language study of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, or Khmer at the advanced level in approved language programs in East or Southeast Asia. Applicants must be American citizens or permanent residents of the United States.

• Blakemore Kingfisher Art History Language Fellowships

  Blakemore Kingfisher Art History Language Fellowships are awarded for nine to twelve months of full-time, intensive Chinese or Korean language study in approved language programs in East Asia. These grants are open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States or Canada, and to foreign nationals who are studying at colleges or universities in the U.S. or Canada, who are at or near an advanced level in the language and intending to pursue an academic career in Chinese or Korean art history.

• Coding It Forward

  The Coding it Forward Fellowship empowers early-career technologists to innovate in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States.  Over ten weeks during the summer, Fellows provide critical support to the government offices they work for in cyber, data, design, product, and software roles. Fellows are paid based on their educational attainment level—undergraduate and bootcamp. Fellows make $20/hour, and graduate students make $25/hour.

• Foreign Affairs IT Fellowship (FAIT)

  If you want to use your tech skills to make a difference, see the world, and experience different cultures, the Foreign Affairs Information Technology (FAIT) Fellowship is an opportunity of a lifetime. Funded by the U.S. Department of State, this two-year Fellowship program is a path to a career in the Foreign Service by providing academic funding for an IT-related degree, internships, professional development and mentorship – culminating in an appointment in the Foreign Service as a Diplomatic Technology Officer (DTO).

• Hertog Foundation Political Studies Program

  Each year, the Hertog Foundation brings together top college students to the nation’s capital to explore the theory and practice of politics in an intensive seminar setting with outstanding faculty. Political Studies Fellows take courses in a wide variety of subjects, from political philosophy to contemporary public affairs, from economics to foreign policy. In the afternoons and evenings, they have the opportunity to hear from leaders in American government and politics.