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Economics Department

Department of Economics Handbook: Awards, Scholarships, and Internships

Department of Economics Handbook: Awards, Scholarships, and Internships The department periodically offers an Alumni Essay Prize in economics, subject to funding. First prize in the past has been $500. The details of the essay contest vary and you should watch the Economics Department bulletin board (in the central hallway of the first floor of Morton) for more information.

Seniors who pursue graduate school are encouraged to apply for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The NSF awards Graduate Fellowships and has special programs for minorities and women. The NSF provides three-year graduate fellowships for study and research leading to masters or doctoral degrees in science (including social sciences), mathematics, and engineering. For information and application materials please use the NSF website.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is an educational organization in Washington, D.C. which conducts programs of research, discussion, publication, and education in international relations and U.S. foreign policy. Each year the Endowment offers up to ten one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 200 colleges. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates. No one who has started graduate studies will be considered. For additional information contact Lynne Sport, Coordinator of the Carnegie Junior Fellows Program, jrfellowinfo@ceip.org. or the Charles Center in Tucker Hall, 221-2460.

Other scholarship opportunities are available to Economics majors. Many of these are posted on the department's bulletin board in the center hallway of Morton first floor. Campus-wide scholarship information is coordinated by Lisa Grimes in the Charles Center (basement of Tucker Hall).

Economics majors occasionally pursue internships during the school year, but it is much more common during the summer. The Career Center coordinates internship programs for Economics students. If you wish to receive academic credit for an internship, you must enroll in Economics 498. This is organized exactly like an independent study (Economics 490). You must identify a faculty member willing to supervise the project before enrolling in Economics 498.