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TRUSTEE SCHOLARSHIP AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Application Deadline: 1 December, 2023

LOCATION: Boston, USA

Every year, BU welcomes approximately 20 outstanding students to the Trustee Scholars Program. In addition to exceptional academic credentials, Trustee Scholars are intellectually and creatively adventurous and demonstrate viewpoints, experiences, or achievements beyond the usual. 

ELIGIBILITY:

Scholars must have scored 4.0 grade point averages in high school and ranked in the top of their class.

Open for all Nationality

Submit the Common Application and all required materials for admission to one of the undergraduate degree programs at BU by December 1.

Complete the Trustee Scholarship essay on the Common Application as part of your application to BU.

Please choose from one of the two prompts below and submit one essay, in 600 words or less, as part of your application through the Common Application.

Nobel laureate and BU professor Elie Wiesel once said: “There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests.” Is there a book, film, podcast or life- experience that has made you feel more connected to your personal history/identity, and what is the most important thing you learned from it?

Describe a time when you felt out of your comfort zone or marginalized in a situation. How did you respond to that moment and how has it informed your actions moving forward?

BENEFIT:

A Trustee Scholarship covers full undergraduate tuition plus mandatory undergraduate student fees, and is renewable for four years if certain criteria are met.

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THE ILLUMINA AGRICULTURAL GREATER GOOD INITIATIVE GRANTS 

Application Deadline: 30 September, 2023

LOCATION: USA

Applications for the 2024 Agricultural Greater Good Initiative grant is currently being accepted. This initiative recognizes researchers in the agricultural community using Illumina technology to help alleviate global hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.

ELIGIBILITY:

The grant program is open to basic researchers in Agrigenomics at academic, for profit, or nonprofit institutions. Priority will be given to research that increases sustainability, productivity, and nutritional density of the world’s food supply.

In 400 words or less, provide an overview, a statement of work, and a description of the impact of your research. You may also include up to three figures, with legends, and a list of citations (with 200 word count limit).

In these sections, applicants should include:

Economic impact

Social impact

Collaborators

Nations represented

Technologies used

Other sources of funding

To be considered, all entries must:

Be in English

Be complete

Be an original work

BENEFIT:

The Grand Prize winner will receive up to $350,000 of in-kind consumables and/or services at list price value on up to 1000 samples of your choice. The winner will be announced during the International Plant and Animal Genome Conference in January 2024.

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