Global Fellowships & Awards

Grinnell College students and alumni apply for and receive national, merit-based fellowships and awards at exceptionally high rates. This success speaks to the power of the individually advised curriculum combined with strategic cocurricular and extracurricular involvement in service-learning, internships, independent study and research, and more. National fellowship screening committees for competitive awards are more easily able to identify students of exceptional promise when applicants have already taken advantage of the wealth of opportunities afforded to them as Grinnell students.

The Center for Careers, Life, and Service administers many of the College’s fellowship and award application processes, including those for select national, merit-based awards and for certain Grinnell-specific awards. Please feel free to contact the Ann Landstrom for advising and information about the awards listed here—or about any other competitive scholarships or fellowships for which Grinnell students or alumni may be eligible.

Two Grinnellians Receive Goldwater Scholarships

Erik Genet ’26 and Shabab Kabir ’26, research students at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, summer of 2024, were named Goldwater Scholars in March 2025.

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Aaron Yost ’23 Begins the Journey as a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship

Aaron Yost ’23 received a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Graduate Fellowship, which will support him in a two-year graduate program, two summer internships, and extensive professional development leading to a Foreign Service Officer position in the U.S. Department of State. …

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Margaret Morey Student Ambassador & Office Assistant
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Emma Schaefer ’23 – Reflection on her Watson Year

Written by Hope Zionts ’26

Emma Schaefer ’23 is currently exploring the world on her Watson journey, Listening at Dawn: Music That Heals the Planet, and is returning to the United States at the end of July. I reached out …

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