Fulbright-Hays DDRA info session

There will be an information session about the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program for graduate students (applicants must be US citizen or permanent resident) on

Monday, February 9,
4:00-5:00, 336 Ingraham Hall.

Please register by sending an email to fellow@intl-institute.wisc.edu. If you cannot attend the session, I can meet with you at another time.

Deadline information. Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) 2015 Competition anticipated time frame: According to the US Department of Education DDRA site, applications will be available in February and there will be a national deadline in April. There will be a mandatory campus deadline that will be approximately 2 weeks before the national deadline. The campus deadline cannot be set until the national deadline is published.

Program description and eligibility. The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program (DDRA) is a federally funded grant program and is open to graduate students who are US citizens enrolled in a US university and who will be conducting dissertation field research abroad. Graduate students must show strong area studies related course work at the graduate level to be considered competitive.

The grant will be published on the Federal Register first, so interested students should check this site regularly, https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/education-department. Please look at the documents pertaining to the competition last May for an idea of what is to be submitted by the campus deadline, http://fellowships.international.wisc.edu/fulbright-hays-doctoral-dissertation-research-abroad/
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/iegpsddrap/legislation.html