Bryant Scholars Your Path to Greatness
The Bryant Scholars program engages and supports outstanding students who are committed to excellence in scholarship and who aspire to pursue prestigious grants, fellowships, and awards.
We seek, support, and prepare outstanding students to compete and win national and international scholarships and fellowships, including Fulbright, Marshall, and Truman awards. These awards are available to undergraduate and graduate students. www.Bryant.edu/BryantScholars
What can the Bryant Scholars program do for you? “Bryant Scholars is an exciting With the support and guidance of accomplished faculty mentors, Bryant initiative highlighting the commitment Scholars pursue a path that prepares them to compete for prestigious awards of the University to innovative and advance their academic research and careers. academic scholarship, both for faculty and for students. I am enthusiastic We provide support and guidance for current undergraduates and recent graduates interested in applying for fellowships including opportunities to: about the opportunities the Bryant Scholars program will provide our • Attend webinars and seminars on a full range of fellowship, grant, students and am confident this and award opportunities; program will further enhance our national prominence. • Learn about the requirements to complete the fellowship application process; The student body already has potential Fulbright, Truman, Marshall, and • Work closely with a faculty mentor who will support their scholarship endeavors; Rhodes Scholars. This program will provide those students with the • Collaborate with dedicated writing specialists to help students develop resources, tools, and programming to their fellowship applications; ensure that they become recipients of these prestigious awards.” • Conduct mock interviews to develop skills help that them stand out in their competitive fellowship interviews. Provost Glenn Sulmasy, J.D., L.L M
What will Make Me a Bryant Scholar? A Bryant Scholar is committed to thinking, questioning, and pursuing meaningful work that promotes scholarship in any or all of the dimensions below.
Scholarship of Discovery is academic work that advances disciplinary and professional knowledge through empirical research, historical investigation, theory development, and other scholarly inquiries.
Scholarship of Integration makes connections across disciplines and uses data in a meaningful way to connect ideas and produce new insights and knowledge in order to respond to intellectual problems and pressing human problems.
Scholarship of Application may be accomplished through practice and application of the outcomes of academic discovery toward the benefit of individuals, groups, corporations, and society as a whole.
Scholarship of Engagement includes teaching, research, and/or service applied to promote public good and to address pressing social, civic, and ethical problems in a community or society.
Bryant University • 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917• 401.232.6000 • www.Bryant.edu Bryant Scholars Your Path to Greatness
The Bryant Scholars program engages and supports outstanding students who are committed to excellence in scholarship and who aspire to pursue prestigious grants, fellowships, and awards.
We seek, support, and prepare outstanding students to compete and win national and international scholarships and fellowships, including Fulbright, Marshall, and Truman awards. These awards are available to undergraduate and graduate students. www.Bryant.edu/BryantScholars
Joining Bryant Scholars Outstanding students who aspire to become Bryant Scholars do so by: Contact • submitting a screening form to the director of the Bryant Edi Tebaldi, Ph.D. Scholars program; Director, Bryant Scholars program and Associate Professor of Economics • attending orientation events; [email protected] • participating in a required review process; For more information about • and applying for scholarships that require institutional endorsement. the Bryant Scholars program and scholarship opportunities, A review council of faculty and deans will interview students, evaluate please visit: their applications, and provide support and guidance to potential candidates. www.Bryant.edu/BryantScholars The University will endorse students who receive a nomination from the review council and their applications will be forwarded for submission. Follow us on Twitter: @BryantScholars
Major National Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities The Fulbright, Marshall, and Truman scholarships are the top three programs in which Bryant is most active. Interested students are encouraged to visit the website for a full list of additional opportunities, including the:
• Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
• Boren Scholarship And Boren Fellowship
• Gates Cambridge Scholarship
• George J. Mitchell Scholarship
• James Madison Fellowship
• Rhodes Scholarship
• Richard M. Weaver And Henry Salvatori Fellowships
• Udall Scholarship
Bryant University • 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917• 401.232.6000 • www.Bryant.edu