Scholarships and Fellowships

PhD and MS Assistantship Enhancements and Supplements Available to Incoming Grad Students

The Center has been awarded two new four-year $5,000 PhD Enhancements and two new $3,000 PhD or MS Supplements to help attract top quality graduate students. These awards are only available to graduate students newly entering an LSU MS or PhD program in Summer of Fall 2005. A student must have secured a commitment for a 20 hour per week assistantship and working on a research project related to hurricanes or other natural or technological hazards to be eligible for one of these awards. Please contact Dr. Levitan (225/578-4445) for more information.

LSU Hurricane Center Graduate Fellowships and Assistantships

The LSU Hurricane Center has several fellowships available for students wishing to pursue a PhD, with research emphasis on hurricanes and related hazards (flooding, extreme winds and rainfall, etc). Students may be in any academic department, as long as their research topic is relevant to the mission of the LSU Hurricane Center. Students from geosciences, engineering, behavioral sciences, business/economics, and any other background are welcome to apply. Traditional MS and PhD Research Assistantships are also available in some areas. Please contact Dr. Levitan (225/578-4445) for more information. 

Scholarship Opportunities for Disaster Science and Management Students

The Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Association (LEPA) is offering $2,500 in scholarships for students studying disaster science and emergency management in Louisiana. Scholarships are available for both full-time and part-time students, and graduate and undergraduate students. The application deadline for the 2005 LEPA College Scholarship Program is March 1, 2005.

The International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) offers scholarships to students across the country studying emergency management and related fields. The scholarship application deadline is usually in April.

 

Archived Scholarship Opportunities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Information About Former Scholarship Opportunities

FEMA/EPA Community Planning Fellowship Program

In an effort to raise awareness and ensure that hazard mitigation is
effectively incorporated into future urban and rural planning, the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announces its 2005-2006
Community Planning Fellowship. Open to graduate planning students, the
fellowship program offers fellows an opportunity to familiarize
themselves with hazard mitigation as an aspect of planning. This year,
the Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has joined with FEMA to provide funding to
support the fellows' exploration of how communities, regional
organizations, and states can effectively address watershed planning
and floodplain management issues.Graduate students selected to receive a fellowship will be provided
with funding sufficient to support one year of field research focusing
on local and state hazard mitigation and community planning issues.

The fellowships will involve orientation work at FEMA and EPA
headquarters and at other federal agencies in Washington, DC,
extensive fieldwork within communities to be selected jointly by the
student and FEMA, and independent study follow-up work during the
2005-2006 academic year.

The application deadline is January 31, 2005. Download the
announcement and application at
http://www.nibs.org/MMC/mmcactiv4.html.