Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation – Graduate Research Fellowship
Applicants must contact Foundation staff prior to the deadline with a letter that includes an abbreviated proposal. Select applicants will be invited to submit a formal application.
The Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation’s graduate research fellowship program was initiated in 1956. The program is designed to promote the education of exceptionally qualified students and provide research information to manage wildlife populations. The scientific breadth of the program is suggested by the academic units of previous fellowship recipients, among them: animal behavior, biology, botany, conservation education, ecology, genetics, mammalogy, ornithology, parasitology, range science, veterinary pathology, and wildlife sciences.
Fellowships are awarded directly to properly accredited U.S. colleges or universities for bona fide graduate students who are approved candidates for M.S. or Ph.D. degrees after project proposals have been submitted to and approved by the Foundation. For more information please download our Application Procedures and Fellowship Policies forms.
Academic institutions are responsible for the competitive selection and supervision of fellowship recipients, subject to Foundation approval. Students working on or near the Refuge are provided dormitory apartment living quarters, utilities, office space, computer access, and such field and laboratory facilities as are available.
The fellowship offers support for one year and may be extended beyond the first year.
- $1,600 monthly stipend for masters students, $1,800 monthly stipend for doctoral students.
- Students working on or near the Welder Wildlife Refuge are provided dormitory apartment living quarters, utilities, office space, computer access, and such field and laboratory facilities as are available.
- Up to $1,200 for project travel per year, pro-rated at $100/mo.
- One time award of up to $500 for the student’s advisor to travel to the project study area.
- Travel support for one conference at which the student is presenting.
Applicants must:
- Propose a project within the continental United States.
- Be masters or doctoral students at an accredited U.S. college or university.
- Have their proposals approved by a qualified member of the faculty at their academic institution.
- Have a minimum GRE score of 300 (verbal plus quantitative) and a “B” or higher average in the last two years of undergraduate or graduate work.
- May not hold graduate or teaching assistantships or other employment while receiving a Welder fellowship.
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Contact
Terry Blankenship, Director
Rob & Bessie Welder Wildlife Foundation
Tel: 361-364-2643
Email: [email protected]