Prestigious Scholarships
The prestigious scholarships described here provide monetary awards and other types of assistance intended to support the graduate and undergraduate education of outstanding students. What these scholarships have in common is that they are recognized as among the most prestigious available and as such can have a dramatic, life-changing impact on the lives of the students who receive them. >>
Scholarships and Fellowships
Here are our descriptions of selected Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships with links to their own websites for more information.
Application Deadlines
Is the various scholarship information turning into one big mush in your brain? This section includes a listing of scholarship application deadlines.
CUNY Scholarship Recipients
Come take a look at all the CUNY Students who have won prestigious scholarships, and click on their names to read bios and news articles about them and their accomplishments.
College Contacts
This is a listing of initial contact persons in the CUNY colleges for those individuals interested in prestigious scholarships.
Frequently Asked Questions
Prestigious Scholarships News
Jimena Santillan selected for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Jimena Santilllan, a Hunter College psychology major and graduating senior has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship which provides up to $121,500 in support for students pursuing a Ph.D. in the physical, biological, behavioral and certain social sciences as well as mathematics and engineering.
Early in her career Jimena participated in the National Institute of Mental Health funded Career Opportunities in Research Program. Subsequently, she was selected for the federally funded BP-Endure program which provides training in neuroscience, outstanding research mentors, specialized courses and summer research opportunities to students who wish to pursue careers in neuroscience.
Jimena has participated in Summer Research Opportunity Programs, first, at the University of California, Berkeley where she worked on a project looking at children’s conceptions of free will and later at Vanderbilt University’s Summer Science Academy. At Vanderbilt she was a collaborator in the Educational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab examining the development of native language expertise. At Hunter she has worked as a research assistant in Dr. Sandeep Prasada’s Language and Cognition Lab where she has been involved in a variety of projects studying the relationship between language and cognitive processes.
In 2011 Jimena joined Dr. Jennifer Mangel’s Dynamic Learning Laboratory at Baruch College where she has assisted a doctoral student with his dissertation project. She has also given presentations at a wide variety of conferences and symposia. Jimena will pursue her graduate study at the University of Oregon next fall as a “Promising Scholar” Once there, she will be working with Dr. Helen Neville at the Brain Development lab examining the neuroplasticity of selective attention and testing an intervention designed to improve cognitive ability in children with low socio-economic status.
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