EDGE Doctoral Fellowship Program

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Academic Level:
Graduate Students (Masters)
Graduate Students (PhD)

Description:
Stanford's EDGE Doctoral Fellowship Program aims to recruit and retain outstanding doctoral students who have the potential to contribute to the richness of their academic fields and degree programs. The excellence of our research and teaching missions is advanced by having people with different backgrounds, interests, experiences, and viewpoints participating in the conversation. The EDGE program brings together a wide range of voices and perspectives. Nominations of students from all backgrounds are welcomed and encouraged.

EDGE serves Stanford doctoral students in the social and behavioral sciences, business, education, and the humanities (SBEH), and in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The EDGE program is run in collaboration with the schools of business, education, engineering, humanities & sciences, and sustainability.

The EDGE Doctoral Fellowship Program reflects Stanford's commitment to fostering intellectual excellence in graduate education by creating a vibrant and supportive educational environment, that enables all students to reach their fullest potential.

"Stanford is a stronger institution because we have people from a broad array of backgrounds and perspectives, because we support all members of the university to achieve their potential, because we foster a culture of inquiry and of curiosity, and because we are committed, in pursuit of discovery and learning, to protecting the freedom of our faculty and our students to speak openly about issues they care about and to study topics of their choosing. Those freedoms are fundamental to the academic mission." - Stanford President Jonathan Levin

Nominations Process: EDGE Doctoral Fellowships are awarded to incoming doctoral students, who are initially nominated by their degree program after they are admitted. The nominations are then reviewed by the deans' offices in the Schools of Business, Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences and Sustainability.


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This program is funded by:
National Science Foundation (NSF)


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