Harvard Resources
•Office of Career Services Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (URAF) Website. URAF is new name for OCS Fellowships Office (also includes Harvard College Research Program now).
•Searchable Harvard Funding Database (requires Harvard PIN login). You can search for opportunities by your class year as well as type of grant or country. Lists many awards administered by different Harvard departments.
•Links to fellowships databases on the List of Fellowships from this website
•Harvard's Committee on General Scholarships. They administer many of the fellowships for graduate study or travel in countries other than the UK (e.g. Luce Scholarship, D.A.AD., France, Australia, Brazil)
• Harvard Summer Programs and Resources for Undergraduate Students. Includes tons of links to particular fellowship programs, lists of fellowships, and other non-fellowship summer opportunities.
• Harvard's Office of International Programs. Info about foreign currency, health insurance, passports, and many more details you have to worry about once you've received funding to go abroad.
•The Center for Public Interest Careers at Harvard. Includes descriptions of many of the fellowships for public service mentioned on the List of Fellowships, and more.
•Harvard University Institute of Politics. Often offers summer stipends for work with governmental organizations, NGO's, and public interest organizations in the U.S.
Other Resources
•The COS Funding Opportunities searchable database, which contains information about hundreds of thousands of funding opportunities
Links for Study in Britain
•Research Assessment Exercise, the official ranking of research output of each department at every major university
•The British Council U.S.A., which presents a variety of information for Americans wanting to study in Britain, including a section on finding funding. Nationals of other countries shuld find the British Council page for their countries.
•Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, which assesses university departments by teaching quality and student experience
Lowell House Fellowships Forms
• Request for Recommendation: A cover page to be used for all letters of recommendation that are added to your Lowell House file
•Release Form: Allows House tutors and advising committees access to your file as they assist you with fellowship applications
•Recommendation Access Form: To be submitted to the House office when you want to retrieve letters from your House file
Application Assistance
•Budget Planning: A brief guide prepared by OCS to help students who may be unfamiliar with creating project budgets
Last updated August 2013