University of Kentucky offers the Lyman T. Johnson Postdoctoral Fellowships to support postdoc fellows in graduate and professional areas. The fellowships are named in honor of UK’s first African-American graduate student, Lyman T. Johnson.
About the fellowships:
- Selected candidates undertake an individualized research program under the mentorship of one or more UK professors and actively participate in departmental and professional research related activities.
- Selected Fellows play a lead role in designing, developing and implementing research programs that contribute to a department’s overall graduate education and research mandates.
Eligibility:
- Applicant must be a citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
- Applicants must have completed the PhD degree within the past two years or will complete the PhD degree before the date of appointment.
- Applicants who do not have a prior or present postdoctoral appointment at UK will be preferred.
- Applicants who received their PhD at UK must be affiliated with a research group other than the one in which they did their prior research.
Fellowship value: $47,476 stipend plus benefits; $2,000 for support of research activities.
Duration: up to 2 years; initially for 12 months; may apply for a second year.
Applications:
Application dossier should contain, in this order and as a single PDF document:
- Letter of application describing how involvement in this program would contribute to the compelling interest of diversity at the University of Kentucky and in their profession
- CV including the references providing letters of recommendation
- Research proposal independently written by the applicant in a way that non-experts can evaluate (max 1,500 words)
- Sample publications or dissertation chapters (max 2)
- Applications to be sent to vprgrants@uky.edu with the applicants name in the subject line.
- 3 letters of recommendation
- Support letter from the potential UK mentor
- Supervisor CV , including current and pending funding (5 page limit)
- A letter from the potential UK departmental chair indicating endorsement and appropriate departmental resources such as space and computer support
- Completed applications should be emailed to vprgrants@uky.edu
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Organization | University of Kentucky |
Fellowship Level | Postdoctoral |
Country | USA |
Subject areas | All disciplines |
Fellowship amount | $47,476 stipend |
Eligibility | Open to citizen or a non-citizen national of the United States |
Deadline | November 1, 2020 |
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