Faculty Resources

In keeping with its strategic plan, Loyola Marymount University is devoted to encouraging its most talented, outstanding students to apply for nationally competitive scholarships, fellowships, and other awards. LMU students are competitive for these opportunities, and they need your help in attaining scholarships and fellowships that speak to their academic, personal, intellectual and professional goals. This section of our website is dedicated to providing basic information on how to act as a mentor and guide for potential applicants, as well as how to assist them in the actual application process. 

At this level of competition, the students and ONIF rely on the assistance and commitment of the LMU faculty in aiding students in the application process, which may include acting as a "sounding board" for student proposals, providing intellectual and emotional support, and/or writing strong letters of recommendation.  Generally, we ask that you serve as a mentor for these applicants, and if possible, work with them to improve their proposals and statements. In addition, serving as a panelist on a mock or campus interview is a great way to be involved in the fellowships advising process.

Here are some basic tips on how to be involved in the national awards process:

  • Encourage first-year students and sophomores to start thinking about fellowships early
  • Encourage students to engage in self-reflection, define their goals, identify research award opportunities that match these goals and aspirations, and have them make an appointment with Cassidy Alvarado, Director of ONIF. Advise students not to wait until their last year of college to apply, because the process itself helps to refine these goals and interests further.
  • Encourage students who are already fellowship winners or have been recognized by the LMU community in some capacity to apply for national awards. Most people who win national awards have been given university awards such as merit-based scholarships. One opportunity tends to lead to another.

As a member of the faculty, the scholarship application process can involve faculty in the following ways, but of course is not limited to:

  • Writing Letters of Recommendation  
  • Serving on campus selection committees, the faculty committee, or acting as an award advisor/nominator
  • Participating in mock interview fellowship panels
  • Acting as an advisor/mentor on personal statements, proposals, CV, etc.

Please learn about scholarships and fellowships available to students in your discipline, and consider serving on a Faculty Fellowship Committee. If interested, please contact Cassidy Alvarado, Director of ONIF.

Below is a list of scholarships by field/type. The year that students must begin the application is noted in parentheses. Those fellowships marked with an asterisk denote summer programs. 

Sciences & Mathematics 

  • Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates (freshman, sophomore, junior)*
  • Goldwater Scholarship (sophomore, junior)
  • NIH Summer Internship in Biomedical Research (senior, graduate students)*
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology Summer Research Program (sophomore, junior, non-graduating senior)*
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Undergraduate Fellowships for Minorities (sophomore-senior)*
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (senior, graduate student)
  • Janet H. and C. Henry Knowles Fellowship (senior)
  • Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (senior, postgraduate)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (senior, first-year graduate student)
  • Boren Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • Humanity in Action Summer Fellows Program (freshman-postgrad)*
  • Udall Scholarship (sophomore, junior) 

Social Sciences

  • Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • Public Policy and Leadership Conference (freshman, sophomore)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (senior, first-year graduate student)
  • Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship (junior)
  • Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (senior, postgraduate)
  • Critical Language Scholarship Program (freshman-graduate)*
  • Boren Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • Humanity in Action Summer Fellows Program (freshman-postgraduate)*
  • Udall Scholarship (sophomore, junior) 
  • Truman Scholarship (junior)

Humanities

  • Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • James Madison Fellowship (senior, postgraduate)
  • Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (senior, postgraduate)
  • UK Fulbright Summer Institutes* (freshman-sophomore)
  • Humanity in Action Summer Fellows Program (freshman-postgrad)*
  • Critical Language Scholarship Program (freshman-graduate)*
  • Boren Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • Truman Scholarship (junior)

Public & Community Service

  • Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship (freshman-senior)
  • Boren Scholarship (freshman-senior) 
  • Capital Fellows Program (senior)
  • Gaither Junior Fellows Program (senior, postgraduate)
  • Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs (senior, postgraduate)
  • Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship (senior)
  • Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship (junior)
  • Strauss Scholarship (freshman-junior)
  • Truman Scholarship (junior) 
  • Udall Undergraduate Scholarship (sophomore, junior)
  • Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellowship (postgraduage)
  • Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellowship (postgraduate)
  • Humanity in Action Summer Fellows Program(freshman-postgraduate)*

Graduate Study

  • Capital Fellows Program (senior)
  • Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (senior, postgraduate)
  • Josephine De Karman Fellowship (senior)
  • Boren Fellowship (senior, postgraduate) 
  • Fulbright U.S. Student Program Study Awards (senior, postgraduate)  
  • Gates-Cambridge Scholarship (senior, postgraduate)
  • Davies-Jackson Scholarship for Humanities (first-generation senior, postgraduate)
  • Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (senior, postgraduate) 
  • Marshall Scholarship for Study in the UK (senior, postgraduate)
  • Mitchell Scholarship  for Study in Ireland (senior, postgraduate)
  • NIH Oxford Cambridge Scholars Program for Biomedical Research (senior, postgraduate)
  • Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship (prospective graduate student) 
  • Rhodes Scholarship (senior, postgraduate)