I have received a few emails from some of you that you will be nominating and who, which I have taken note of, but though I better send this out as a reminder to everyone – some of these students are being highly
recruited elsewhere so we don’t want anyone to say to us ‘you snooze – you lose”! ….so please send me a brief statement of interest, etc. so we can start getting awards done and offer letters drafted…..
Note – Christal will be getting out acceptances into ESE to several students today (we are behind too!
From: Lee, Linda S
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 3:16 PM
To: 'Ese-faculty-list@ecn.purdue.edu' <Ese-faculty-list@ecn.purdue.edu>
Subject: DUE NOW: 2017 ESE Faculty-led Nominations for ESE PhD Fellowships/Assistantships
DUE NOW: 2017 ESE Faculty-led Nominations for ESE PhD Fellowships/Assistantships
First round of evaluations for selection of recruitment fellowships is on February 10 so getting in your nomination
BEFORE Feb. 10 is advantageous.
Fellowship Nominations for funding ESE accepted applicants
(or those currently under review with complete or nearly complete applications) who have applied at the PhD level or state in their SOP that
they intend to go on to a PhD should include:
·
A brief letter of nomination from the potential advisor (<1 page) that includes a
general statement indicating how you plan to support the student for three (3+1) or two (2+2)* additional years if for a fellowship, which can include other fellowships, research assistantships, teaching assistantships, or a combination thereof.
Please send your application material electronically to Christal Musser (musser@purdue.edu)
Note to access applications, CO TO:
https://webapps.krannert.purdue.edu/kap/kAdmissions/Default.aspx
Click on the tab KAdmissions-ESE (on the right), then click on Applications, then click on Search to look for a particular name, or other criteria. Feel
free to contact Linda Lee (lslee@purdue.edu) or Christal Musser (musser@purdue.edu) if you need suggestions of who aligns well with your program. In many cases, you have already been
contacted about applicants.
ESE will likely be allocated the following similar to 2016:
·
Five Lynn Fellowships (1+3) -
Lynn
Fellowship
funds
only to
attract graduate
students
who
can make
the greatest
contributions
to our
doctoral programs
and cannot
be made
to students
who
have already
been admitted
to and
enrolled
in a
Purdue
graduate
program
·
One Andrew Fellowship (2+2) -
Andrews Fellowships are for the recruitment of outstanding Ph.D.-track students to graduate programs at Purdue University.
·
One Purdue Doctoral Fellowship (2+2) -
Purdue Doctoral Fellowships support the recruitment of outstanding Ph.D.-track students who will enhance the diversity of the graduate student body in graduate programs at Purdue through their diverse backgrounds,
views and experiences.
Each fellowship includes the following funds from the Graduate School:
·
Stipend
as
set
by
your
college/school
– Minimum
$17,299/year
(estimated)
·
Graduate
medical
insurance
supplement
– $1,491
(estimated,
actual rates
are not
decided
until summer)
·
Fringe
benefits,
if
administered
as
an
assistantship
– Calculation:
stipend
x 0.0041
A few notes:
·
All the above have tuition waivers.
·
Most of you are familiar with how recruitment fellowships work at Purdue – the offer to the student is as a 4-year package; however, only the first (for the 1+3, which includes the
Lynn Fellowship) or the first two years (2+2, which includes the Andrews and the Purdue Doctoral Fellowships) are actually contributed to by the Grad School as part of the fellowship. The rest of the fellowship ‘term’ (4 total years) and supplements for the
first 1 or 2 years (the minimum stipend provided by the GS is not competitive for most of our programs) must be provided by other sources. Essentially for each year that is actually paid for by the Grad School (so the first year for the 1+3 and the first 2
years of the 2+2) in addition to the standard fee waivers.
·
If your nomination is selected for award, you can use the fellowship in year one OR choose to use grant or TA funds for the first year and the fellowship for year 2, etc.,
which can work well if you have grant or start-up money that will expire over the next year or so if not used.
·
Fellowships or assistantships can be supplemented. No stipend can fall below the grad school minimum of $17,299/y
If you supplement there may be a difference between administering as a fellowship versus an assistantship in some colleges (e.g., when administered as an assistantship and given a supplement from a grant to meet your college’s minimum stipend, your college
may choose to charge you a similarly weighted portion of the tuition costs). This may not be the case anymore, but in the past there seem to be some confusion in this area. I will try to get this figured out, but did not want to hold up the request for nominations
since it does not matter that much overall.
·
We must follow the guidelines in the GS
Fellowship Manual and align our efforts with Purdue University's commitment to creating and sustaining an inclusive community.
https://www.purdue.edu/gradschool/documents/funding/publications/Fellows_Manual.pdf
Linda S. Lee
B480 Lilly Hall, West Lafayette, IN 47907; Office: (765) 494-8612; Cell (765) 414-3086;
lslee@purdue.edu
Purdue University Dept. of Agronomy, Professor of Environmental Chemistry & Associate Head
Interdisciplinary Ecological Science & Engineering (ESE) Graduate Program, Program Head,
www.purdue.edu/ese
Division of Environmental Ecological Engineering, Faculty Affiliate