Menakka and Essel Bailey Graduate Fellowship
Menakka and Essel Bailey, Ann Arbor residents and business professionals, are also longtime friends and supporters of CEW+. In 2011, they created the Menakka and Essel Bailey Graduate Fellowship Fund. This gift enables American graduate students to study abroad — especially in South and Southeast Asia—and to do fieldwork and language study in fields of public health, health care, and the environment.
The Menakka and Essel Bailey Graduate Fellowship offers grants for graduate students on the Ann Arbor campus, who are not international students to assist them with study abroad. In particular, the fellowships are intended for field work, cultural experience, or other study relevant to their graduate degree, including the language of the country being visited. Preferred areas of study include public health, health care, or environmental work in South or Southeast Asia (excluding China or Japan). Preference is given to students seeking funds in addition to this source.
Fellowships offered through this application cycle can be used at the end of the Winter 2024 term, Spring/Summer 2024 term, or Fall 2024 term. Awards will vary in amount based on proposal merit, budget, and need.
Applications must meet one of the following criteria:
- Conduct student-designed research that is tied to degree requirements and focused on issues of importance to women;
- Conduct research or study that is tied to removing barriers for women and their allies in the advocacy and social change sphere;
- Travel abroad for students in public health, environmental health, or another health-related field (including but not limited to, nursing, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, environmental health, and public health)
Most CEW+ Fellowships range between $2,000 and $5,000.
CEW+ Fellowships are not intended to support travel for conference attendance and presentations.
There is one application for all of the fellowship funds listed below.