2018-19 Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship Competition - Application due April 25

UCLA's Graduate Division has received notice of the call for applications from your eligible international graduate students for the 2018-19 Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship Competition.  "In 1988 the University [of California] received a bequest from the late Mr. Karam Singh Maughan to establish an endowment to support graduate fellowships (named for Guru Gobind Singh, the Sikh religious leader) to be awarded to graduates of universities in a specific area of India and Pakistan [see attached map] for the purpose of pursuing graduate study at the University of California.”

 

The details from the University of California, Santa Cruz, are attached.  The UCLA campus deadline is Noon, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. 

 

Eligibility criteria are:

 

"To be eligible, a student must (1) be a graduate of an Indian or Pakistani university in the designated area [see attached map], (2) be committed to returning to her or his country of origin after re­ceiving the degree, and (3) not have engaged previously in graduate study at any other institution of higher learn­ing in the United States. Mr. Maughan also specified that individuals already holding the master’s degree will have preference."

 

At UCLA, preference will also be given to individuals who will have just advanced to doctoral candidacy by Fall 2018.

 

"For 2018-19, the amount of the Singh Fellowship will be $30,000.  The award will be made based on the strength of the student’s academic record and supporting documents; these should in­clude up to three letters of reference (one from the student’s faculty spon­sor), university transcripts, and any other documents that may serve to sup­port the candidacy.  Please indicate the current status of the student, advanced to candidacy or not, and planned completion date.  In addition, please include a statement of how the student proposes to use her/his graduate education in their home country."

 

Student applicants should submit their complete dossier via PDF except for the letters of reference by Noon, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, to uclafellowship@grad.ucla.edu.  The file name should be “Last name, first name_Singh.”  The letters of reference should also be submitted by the same deadline.

 

The application dossier will consist of:

 

• Research Statement (maximum five pages, double spaced)
• Graduate Education Contribution in home country (maximum two pages, double spaced)
• Personal Statement (maximum two pages, double spaced)
• Curriculum Vitae
• UCLA Transcript (unofficial or MyUCLA version is okay, but no Degree Progress Reports)
• Up to three Letters of Recommendation on department letterhead and signed by the writer (our office will convert hard copies into PDFs); one must be from faculty advisor

 

The letters of recommendation should be mailed or hand-delivered by the stated deadline to Fellowships & Financial Services in 1228 Murphy Hall.  Please see the attached checklist for details.