Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship 2025-2026 at Harvard University (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: February 10, 2025

Applications are open for the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship 2025-2026. The Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship program offers funding for college kids from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to conduct graduate study at Harvard University. Through in-nation competitions, Knox Fellowships are usually awarded to fifteen newly admitted college students every year. Knox Fellowship funding is assured for as much as two years of study at Harvard for college kids in diploma applications requiring multiple yr of study. There will be as many as 30 Knox Fellows at Harvard in any given yr.

In establishing the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship program, Annie Reid Knox sought to honor her late husband and his lifelong dedication to America. Throughout his wealthy and diverse profession – as newspaper writer, soldier, vice-presidential candidate and Secretary of the Navy throughout World War II – Knox championed the idea of democracy as a authorities of the folks. He believed that the United States had been “favored as no other land on earth,” and consequently bore large tasks each at home and overseas.

Fellowship

• A Knox Fellowship pays full Harvard tuition and obligatory medical health insurance charges and offers a stipend enough to cowl the dwelling bills of a single Fellow for a ten-month educational yr. Knox Fellows who plan to deliver spouses, companions or different relations with them to Harvard should safe further sources of funding to help their households. Knox Fellowship funding is assured for as much as two years of study at Harvard for college kids in diploma applications requiring multiple yr of study. The Committee on General Scholarships will think about Knox Fellowship renewals after the second yr on a case-by-case foundation.

Eligibility

• Knox Fellowships are open to women and men who:
  • are residents or everlasting residents of Canada at the time of application and who’re usually residing in Canada; AND
  • have accomplished or will full a primary or larger diploma at a Canadian college; AND
  • are finding out for a primary or larger diploma and can graduate within the educational yr 2024-2025; OR have accomplished a primary or larger diploma and graduated no sooner than 2020.
  • Please be aware that individuals who graduated earlier than 2020 are usually not be eligible to apply.
• No application will likely be thought-about from any potential applicant already within the United States.
• Each Knox Fellowship applicant should additionally submit an Application for Admission on to the Harvard graduate or skilled college of their selection. Knox Fellowships are awarded solely to these candidates that acquire admission to Harvard as full-time diploma-program college students. Applicants are urged to start correspondence with that faculty’s Admissions Office at the earliest doable date. Applicants ought to submit Applications for Admission to the suitable college as early as doable and needn’t anticipate the deadline. 
• Knox Fellowship candidates searching for admission to Harvard Law School ought to have accomplished their resident college schooling and maintain a primary diploma in Law earlier than making use of for a sophisticated diploma program such because the Master of Laws (LLM).
• Knox Fellowships are usually not awarded for undergraduate study or postdoctoral analysis, nor do they help medical analysis, put up-doctoral analysis, or another analysis appointment. They are usually not obtainable for on-line or part-time applications or Executive Education applications. Normally Frank Knox Fellows have to be in residence within the Boston/Cambridge space throughout the first two years of their diploma program. (The fellowship won’t help college students whose applications require in depth area-work throughout this era.)

Application

Applicants are required to submit an on-line application. Supplemental supplies as part of the web application embody:

• Curriculum Vitae
• Short essay of not more than 1,000 phrases, which offers an account of the applicant’s educational pursuits, mental pursuits, further-curricular actions, and the explanations for his/her need to study at Harvard University; the essay also needs to clarify the applicant’s plan of study at Harvard and his/her future profession plans.
• Certified copies of all educational transcripts. 
• Two confidential letters of advice. 

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For extra data, go to Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship.