Scholarship #1 

UC San Diego has received four Chinese Scholarship Council scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students who are U.S. born and are “scholars” who wish to study/conduct research in select Chinese universities. The scholarships cover tuition/fees, health insurance and a living allowance of about $200/month for undergraduates, $250/month for master’s students, and $300/month for PhD students/scholars.  The scholarships may be of significant interest to undergraduate and graduate students planning to spend time in China. The deadline is December 1, 2009, for the 2010/2011 academic year.  Sorry for the short notice, the scholarships were only recently offered to our campus.
 
All scholarship-related questions contact Consul Cuiying Xu at the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles:

Phone: 213-807-8023

Email: cuiyingx@yahoo.com

Applications will be reviewed by Michelle L. Hermas,    (E-mail: mhermas@ucsd.edu) Director of International Affairs at UCSD to ensure they meet the CSC’s minimum criteria before forwarding them to the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles .  Applicants will be notified of the result of their scholarship application by December 10, and can contact me directly with questions about UCSD’s application review process. Applicants will be notified of the result of their scholarship application by December 10, and can contact me directly with questions about UCSD’s application review process.
                                                 

#1 Application Procedures, #2 Chinese Scholarship Application and #3 Physical Exam Form                                                         
                                                                  Scholarship #2                                                         

The Alliance for Global Education (AGE) is offering full scholarship opportunity for students to undertake intensive Chinese language study during the Summer 2010. The Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) is part of a U.S. government interagency effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical need foreign languages. During an 8-week program students will take either intermediate or advanced level course at Alliance in Beijing (Beijing Language and Culture University) or Shanghai (Fudan University). All program fees, round-trip air travel, meals, activities and excursions will be covered by the scholarship. CLS is offering 80 full scholarships are available for China, and the Alliance will host at least half of the scholars. Info about the CLS program is available online: http://www.clscholarship.org The application deadline is December 18, 2009, and students may apply online beginning November 9 on the CLS website. For more info go to AGE's website: www.allianceglobaled.org or contact Julia Levy, Senior Program Manager for China: jlevy@allianceglobaled.org                                                                     

Scholarship #3 

Language grants provided by the Blakemore Foundation to encourage the advanced study of Asian languages and to improve the understanding of Asian fine arts in the United States. Blakemore Freeman Fellowships fund a year of advanced study in an Asian language, in Asia, for American citizens and permanent residents of the United States who have a college degree and who plan to use an Asian language in their careers.

Blakemore Refresher Grants are short-term grants (minimum of two months) available to former Blakemore or Blakemore Freeman Fellows, professors who are teaching in an Asian field at a university or college in the United States whose degree is in an Asian field, post-doctoral professionals whose degree is in an Asian field, and graduates of the regular academic-year programs at IUC-Yokohama, IUP-Beijing, and the ICLP-Taipei.

E-mail: blakemore@perkinscoie.com
Website: http://www.blakemorefoundation.org
Deadline to apply: December 30, 2009

Scholarship #4 

Kathryn Davis Fellowships for Peace is offering 30 full tuition fellowships to study critical languages summer 2010 (i.e. Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, etc.)
 
Website with Application: http://www.miis.edu/admissions/financialaid/scholarships/davis or http://www.abroadview.org/careers/fellowships/kwd_languagescholarship.htm

Deadline to apply: February 1, 2010

Application: http://www.miis.edu/admissions/apply

Contact Information:

Monterey Institute of International Studies          Admissions Office
460 Pierce Street, Monterey, CA, 93940 USA
831-647-4123 or 800-824-7235 (toll-free in the US)
admit@miis.edu

“I think this will be a great opportunity, especially for seniors who want to work abroad after graduation to gain working experience in China, because while interning here I've realized how valuable the experiences here are.”                     Michelle Wan (UCSD undergraduate / Current Intern at YourInternshipChina and exchange student at Beijing Normal University)