The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2025-26 External Fellowship Recipients
Congratulations to the recipients of a prestigious external fellowship for the upcoming academic year! There are many prestigious and competitive external fellowships that UMN graduate students can apply to and receive annually, and the following are administered by the Graduate School’s Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards.
FULBRIGHT U.S. STUDENT PROGRAM
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program expands perspectives through academic and professional advancement and cross-cultural dialogue while creating connections in a complex and changing world. In partnership with more than 140 countries worldwide, the Fulbright U.S. Student Program offers unparalleled opportunities in all academic disciplines to passionate and accomplished graduating college seniors, graduate students, and young professionals from all backgrounds.
Vanessa Czeszynski
Graduate Program: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Fulbright Award: Open Study/Research Award in Norway
BTAA SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program offers opportunities for independent research and study related to Smithsonian collections, facilities, and/or research interests of the Institution and its staff. Fellowships are offered to graduate students to conduct independent research and to utilize the resources of the Institution with members of the Smithsonian professional research staff serving as advisors and hosts.
O.M. Comstock
Graduate Program: Art History
Smithsonian American Art Museum
NEWCOMBE DOCTORAL DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
The Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship has become a nationally recognized award that distinguishes recipients within their fields. Newcombe Fellows are often at the forefront of creative and original scholarship, proposing new insights and ground-breaking work in the questions and conversations surrounding religion, ethics, and values.
Muhammad Osama Imran
Graduate Program: Anthropology
Dissertation: Breaths of Extimacy: Spectral Madness, Certainty, and Conspiracy in Sufi Ethics
NSF GRFP
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) was established to recruit and support individuals who demonstrate the potential to make significant contributions in STEM. The purpose of the NSF GRFP is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce, and the multi-year fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time, research-based masters and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering or math or STEM education.
Lina Abu-Absi
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Maya Adelgren
Graduate Program: Civil Engineering
Ikumi Ellis
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Michael Feldkamp
Graduate Program: Mechanical Engineering
Christina Feng
Graduate Program: Neuroscience
Michael Galvin
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Jack Girton
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Armand Lannerd
Graduate Program: Materials Science and Engineering
Ethan Lynch
Graduate Program: Earth Sciences
Michael McGuigan
Graduate Program: Conservation Sciences
Miguel Mercado
Graduate Program: Physics
Beatrice Ojuri
Graduate Program: Developmental Psychology
Jason Palos
Graduate Program: Mathematics
Mason Polencheck
Graduate Program: Conservation Sciences
Tesia Shi
Graduate Program: Psychology
Ava Slade
Graduate Program: Civil Engineering
Michael Thomas
Graduate Program: Mathematics
Fleur Uittenbogaard
Graduate Program: Neuroscience
Wes Walsh
Graduate Program: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Yuanyue Yao
Graduate Program: Earth Sciences