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The Office of Fellowships offers services to help students gain a competitive edge in the application process and grow personally from the experience of applying to a nationally competitive fellowship. Typically, fellowships fund study, research, or teaching in the U.S. or abroad. These awards are competitive and are awarded to students who are energetic and high-achieving, with the potential to make significant contributions for the public good. Additional assets include: high GPAs; service-learning courses or meaningful volunteer experience; honors courses (and other rigorous coursework); research experience; studying abroad; leadership and participation in campus and community activities.
Nationally competitive fellowships
The Office of Fellowships helps undergraduates and recent graduates apply for national fellowships that provide valuable funding, connections and prestige.
When you work with us, we help you articulate your ambitions for yourself and create persuasive fellowship applications. Even if you do not win, this experience will challenge you to define who you want to become and how to achieve your potential. We devote special care to assisting students who face barriers that could discourage them from applying. Let the Office of Fellowships help you build on your success at Wayne.
Featured Fellowships
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Explore fellowships
Explore the list of fellowships to familiarize yourself with the fellowships that we work with most frequently. Information about upcoming information sessions will be listed here when they are scheduled. In the meantime, we encourage you to watch the recording from a previous session or review the slideshow presentation.
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Complete the intake form
To begin the process of applying to one of these fellowships, please fill in this short.
Intake Form.The form asks for you to name a few possible references and upload a resume. After you completing the form, someone from the Office of Fellowships will be in touch with you.
Contact us!
Please email fellowships@wayne.edu if you have any questions.
Fellowship recipients
Adaure Iwuh, a fourth-year public health student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Irvin D. Reid Honors College, is among 60 students from around the nation selected as 2024 Harry S. Truman Scholars. She is the first Wayne State student to win a Truman Scholarship and this year’s only recipient from a Michigan college or university.
The Truman Scholarship was established by Congress in 1975 as a living memorial to President Harry S. Truman and a national monument to public service. The Truman Scholarship is one of the highly competitive, national student honorifics that marks the highest caliber of student academic excellence and achievement. Each year, the Truman Scholarship provides financial support for graduate study and leadership training to 60 students. Iwuh was selected from 709 candidates nominated by 285 colleges and universities.
Iwuh moved to Detroit in 2020 after completing training as a nursing and midwifery technician in Malawi, Africa. She is on track to graduate this December with a bachelor of science in public health and a minor in biology. She wants to help shape U.S. public health policies, particularly by improving preterm birth and maternal mortality rates, which are alarmingly high and outpacing those in all other high-income countries. “I am passionate about addressing maternal mortality and morbidity,” Iwuh said. “It was unfortunate to see that in rural areas but to move to the U.S. and see the statistics about maternal mortality and how it’s disparately affecting some populations, especially African American women, I was shocked, to say the least, and inspired to do something about it, especially here in Detroit.” Read more...