Introduction
Eligibility
Introduction 
UCI's Graduate Division plans to award one La Verne Noyes Fellowship for academic year 2008-2009. The fellowship is intended to provide support to academically superior students in need of financial assistance in funding their education, in the form of a $5,000 total stipend for the academic quarter of the award. Award preference will be given to those students who have not previously received this award. Students must be enrolled full time (in a minimum of 12 units) in the academic quarter in which the student chooses to take the award. Please note that this award cannot be deferred to a subsequent academic year.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the La Verne Noyes Fellowship, the nominee must be a United States citizen who is a blood descendant of a United States Army or Navy World War I veteran, who served for at least four months prior to November 11, 1918, and whose military service was terminated by death or an honorable discharge.
Academic units may nominate outstanding students who meet the criteria. To be considered, all individual student nominations must include the following:
- A completed UCI La Verne Noyes Fellowship Nomination Form.
- The student's Curriculum Vitae.
- A cover letter confirming U.S. citizenship and specifying the student's relationship to the veteran.
- Photocopies of the respective veteran's honorable discharge papers.
All AY 2008-09 nomination materials must be received in the Graduate Division no later than noon on Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Applications must be submitted via the student's home department.
For further information regarding the terms of eligibility, internal departmental deadlines, and the acquisition of application materials, please contact the Associate Dean of your department's school.
Footnotes:
1 This award does not fund a student's non-resident tuition.
