SGS Grants/Fellowships
Student Awards
Degree Programs in SGS
SGS Staff
100

This award, worth $1,000 for the academic year, goes to an applicant in a graduate degree program, with preference given to students with financial need and academic potential.

What is the Ronald A. MacQuarrie Graduate Fellowship?

100

This award, up to $400 per student per fiscal year, helps the chosen applicants to present at meetings, workshops, festivals, or exhibits.

What is the SGS Travel Grant?

100

This doctoral program was started in 2024 and includes 10 disciplines.

What is the Natural Sciences Ph.D. program?

100

This Dean joined the SGS team in July 2024 from the University of Iowa.

Who is Dr. Christine Getz?

200

This award includes a $10,000 stipend and up to 12 hours of tuition remission for one applicant each year - available to U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

What is the Arthur Mag Graduate Fellowship?

200

This award, up to $5,000, is only available to applicants who are conducting thesis or dissertation research.

What is the SGS Research Grant?

200

This doctoral program is in teach-out mode, but still includes about 80 active students in 24 disciplines.

What is the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program?

200

This Associate Dean is a first-generation college graduate who earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers Graduate School.

Who is Dr. Stephen Dilks?

300

This award is granted to applicants who are enrolling in a particular SGS certificate program. The tuition remission helps pay for the seminar courses, and there is a $2,500 stipend as well.

What is the Preparing Future Faculty Scholar Fellowship?

300

This award, nominated by faculty, recognizes a past Master's student's work.

What is the Distinguished Thesis Award?

300

This certificate program, offered online, helps prepare students to become professors.

What is the Preparing Future Faculty or College Teaching and Career Preparation certificate program?

300

She joined SGS in November 2024 to oversee thesis and dissertation processes and submissions. She also coordinates the doctoral, graduate, and adjunct graduate faculty status appointment processes.

Who is Dr. Sarah Beach?

400

This award, $1,000 in the first year, is available to UMKC undergraduates who continue directly into a UMKC graduate program.

What is the Graduate Roo Scholarship?

400

This award, nominated by faculty, recognizes a past Doctoral student's work.

What is the Outstanding Dissertation Award?

400

This certificate program helps students integrate disability-inclusive leadership into any professional setting or community.

What is the Interdisciplinary Leadership in Disability Studies Certificate?

400

She is the Graduate Writing Specialist whose office is on the fourth floor of Miller Nichols Library.

Who is Dr. Annie Lowe?

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