Awards

Stamps Scholars are among the recipients of other prestigious national and international awards, including the Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, and Fulbright. 

  • The Rhodes Scholarships are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world. Each year 32 students from the United States are selected as Rhodes Scholars, through a decentralized process representing the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories.
    Rhodes Scholars
  • The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation awards merit-based scholarships to college students who plan to pursue careers in government or elsewhere in public service.
    Truman Scholars
  • Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to forty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at a UK institution in any field of study.
    Marshall Scholars
  • The Churchill Scholarship provides funding to American students for a year of Master’s study in science, mathematics, and engineering at the University of Cambridge, based at Churchill College.
    Churchill Scholars
  • NOAA’s Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship recognizes outstanding students studying in NOAA mission fields.
    NOAA Hollings Scholars
  • The Mount Vernon Leadership Fellows Program is a highly selective six week summer institute for rising college juniors offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities at the home of America’s first president just outside our nation’s capital.
    Mt. Vernon Leadership Fellows
  • Humanity in Action Fellowship programs look at the ways in which communities co-exist to create a society. Each program investigates human rights, democracy, and structural injustice. Each bridges the international and the domestic, the theoretical and the practical, the political and the personal.
    Humanity in Action Fellows
  • The National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program is an accelerated, individualized doctoral training program for outstanding science students committed to biomedical research careers.
    National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars
  • Since 1963, the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation has awarded over 1,200 doctoral fellowships with the goal of supporting the early stage research endeavors of applied physical, biological, and engineering science students who possess the potential to change our world for the better by solving difficult, real-world problems.
    Hertz Fellows
  • Boren Fellowships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. graduate students to study less commonly taught languages in world regions critical to U.S. interests, and underrepresented in study abroad, including Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East.
    Boren Scholars
  • The Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program is a program that attracts and prepares outstanding young people for Foreign Service careers in the U.S. Department of State. It welcomes the application of members of minority groups historically underrepresented in the State Department, women, and those with financial need.
    Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship
  • The Udall Foundation awards scholarships to college sophomores and juniors for leadership, public service, and commitment to issues related to Native American nations or to the environment.
    Udall Scholars
  • Knight-Hennessy Scholars receive full funding to pursue graduate study at Stanford. This includes the JD, MA, MBA, MD, MFA, MS, DMA, and PhD programs, as well as joint- and dual-degrees.
    Knight-Hennessy Scholars
  • The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship was established by the US Congress in 1986 in honor of former United States Senator Barry Goldwater. Its goal is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers by awarding scholarships to college students who intend to pursue careers in these fields.
    Barry M. Goldwater Scholars
  • Scholarships are awarded to outstanding applicants from countries outside the UK to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge.
    Gates Cambridge Scholars
  • The program will give the world’s best and brightest students the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and professional networks through a one-year Master’s Degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing ‚Äì one of China’s most prestigious universities.
    Schwarzman Scholars
  • The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
    Beinecke Scholars
  • The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide.
    Fulbright Scholars
  • The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) provides annually more than 50 scholarships to the brightest and most talented college students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
    Astronaut Scholars
  • The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a fully funded summer overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students.
    Critical Language Scholars
  • The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity.
    National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows
    National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows
  • USA Today Academic All-Stars
    USA Today Academic All-Stars
  • The George J. Mitchell Scholarship Program, named to honor former US Senator George Mitchell’s pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, is designed to introduce and connect generations of future American leaders to the island of Ireland, while recognizing and fostering intellectual achievement, leadership, and a commitment to community and public service. Up to ...
    The Mitchell Scholarship
  • The PPIA Junior Summer Institute (JSI) Fellowship Program is a rigorous academic graduate level preparation program for undergraduate juniors committed to public service careers. The program was started to address the lack of diversity across the spectrum of professional public service, including government, nonprofits, public policy institutions, and international organizations. The purpose of the JSI ...
    PPIA Junior Summer Institute Fellowship Program
  • The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi currently awards 54 Fellowships of $8,500 each, six at $20,000 each, and two at $35,000 each to members entering the first year of graduate or professional study. Each active Phi Kappa Phi chapter may select one candidate from among its local applicants to compete for the Society-wide awards. ...
    Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship
  • The Tau Beta Pi Association Scholarship Program was established in 1998 with five awards named in honor of former Emeritus R.H. Nagel. Awards have been made to more than 2,798 Scholars for their senior year of engineering study.
    Tau Beta Pi Scholarship
  • The Samvid Scholars Program is a scholarship for incoming graduate students who have an exceptional record of achievement and are committed to making a positive impact on society.
    Samvid Scholarship
  • The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, providing them with skills critical to our national security and economic prosperity. The Institute of International Education has administered the program since its inception in 2001.
    Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program
  • Lincoln Laboratory provides fellowships to active-duty U.S. military officers who are enrolled in a graduate school program, often at MIT, or are completing requirements for advanced education at Senior Service Schools. For graduate students, the military fellowships cover tuition and fees and require that the students perform thesis research at Lincoln Laboratory. Officers enrolled in ...
    Lincoln Laboratory Military Fellowship
  • Rotary Global Grants support large international activities with sustainable, measurable outcomes. Global grants can fund humanitarian projects, scholarships for graduate-level academic studies, or vocational training teams, which are groups of professionals who travel abroad either to teach local professionals about their field or to learn more about it themselves.
    Rotary Global Grant
  • The Thomas J. Wat­son Fel­low­ship is a one-year grant for pur­pose­ful, inde­pen­dent explo­ration out­side the Unit­ed States, award­ed to grad­u­at­ing seniors nom­i­nat­ed by one of 41 part­ner insti­tu­tions.
    Thomas J. Watson Fellowship
  • The Voyager Scholarship is a two-year program intended to support and prepare college juniors for careers in public service. It provides several components including up to $50,000 in financial aid, a summer work-travel experience, an annual summit that helps shape their public service plans and development, and access to a network of leaders.
    Voyager Scholarship
  • The Stamps Big Idea Award provides one UM Stamps Art & Design senior or eligible team $25,000 to help launch a major, ambitious project after graduation. It aims to motivate students to develop ambitious aspirations, accelerate progress toward achieving those goals, and encourage students to rise to the challenge put forth by Penny W. Stamps.
    Stamps Big Idea
  • The Millennium Fellowship is a semester-long leadership development program for undergraduate students to improve partnership building and community impact skills.
    Millennium Fellowship
  • Forbes 30 Under 30 is a set of lists of 30 notable people under 30 years old in various industries issued annually by Forbes magazine and some of its regional editions. The American lists recognize 600 business and industry figures, with 30 selected in twenty industries each.
    Forbes 30 Under 30
  • SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
    SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year
  • The Brooke Owens Fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable young women and other gender minorities who aspire to explore the sky and stars, to shake up the aerospace industry, and to help their fellow people here on planet Earth.
    Brooke Owens Fellowship