The purpose of this fellowship is to enhance the educational experience of our graduate students, giving attention to teaching as well as other competencies.
The teaching fellowship will provide $3,000 awards to either M.S. or Ph.D. students.
Guidelines for the Milton E. Mohr teaching fellowship:
- Full-time graduate students enrolled in a primary major in one of the following degree programs:
- Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering
- Agronomy and Horticulture
- Animal Science
- Food Science and Technology
- Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
- Only students with documented previous teaching excellence or those with generally high scholastic merit and documented teaching interest should be nominated. Preference will be given to Ph.D. graduate assistants, although exceptional M.S. students will be considered.
- Students currently on either research or teaching assistantships are eligible (minimum 0.33 FTE). The fellowship does not require that a student be on a teaching assistantship.
- A student is limited to one CASNR Fellowship (Milton E. Mohr/Farmers National/Cooper Sharpless) per degree (e.g. 1/MS and 1/PhD).
- Students must be nominated by their advisor or Unit Graduate Committee Chair.
- Unit administrators must rank the nominees on the form if 2 or more students are nominated (with no more than a total of 4 nominations for the CASNR Fellowships), approved by the Chair of the Unit Graduate Committee or the Unit Administrator. Rankings will be considered as informational to the selection committee. All nominees from a unit will be considered by the selection committee, independent of unit ranking.
- The $3,000 stipends will be distributed on an academic-year basis and are to be an additional stipend over and above the regular assistantship rate for the student’s academic unit. This is not to be used in lieu of other dollars which the unit would otherwise allocate to the recipient’s assistantship.
Required Supporting Materials:
- A 2-page resume (maximum. Include relevant teaching experience), transcripts and
- one supporting letter documenting the candidate’s previous teaching experience or teaching interest are required for each nominee.
- an advising or formal transcript of all graduate UNL coursework
- The CASNR Graduate Fellowship Committee will review the applications within two weeks following the indicated deadline
NOTE: This form cannot be filled out by the student. Please contact your advisor to complete this form. These forms can only be accepted directly from the departments.