Oceanids Awards

The Oceanids donate money each year to three scholarship funds. Your department technically makes the nominations for these awards to the Office of Graduate Studies, but if you think you are a strong candidate, please pester them about it. Note: your department ultimately makes this call, so you should explain your case to them, not the Office of Graduate Studies.

Oceanids Bertha Lebus Scholarship

Awarded to a graduate student who has had a significant break in his/her education (more than one year) from the completion of graduate studies. The recipient of the $2000 award should have plans to become a teacher at any level.

Frieda Daum Urey Academic Fellowship

This fellowship will be awarded to a student who has had a significant hiatus in his or her studies and subsequently enrolls in graduate or professional studies on the General Campus or The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and for whom the award of the fellowship will make a critical financial difference in his or her ability to attend UCSD.

Ph.D. students will be preferred, but master's and professional students are also eligible. School of Medicine academic and professional programs are not eligible.

The length of the hiatus will typically be at least five years, but may be as short as two to three years for students in science or engineering or resuming studies after military service.

Frieda Daum Urey Endowed Fellowship

Same as above, but only women are eligible.

Your department will have received instructions about how to nominate you and what they will need to do so.