<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:17.2667px">Dear Graduates Happy Tuesday, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:justify;margin:0px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I hope the Fall quarter is going smoothly. I am writing to share that the following <u>three</u> fellowships are now open, with an internal deadline of <font color="#990000"><b><u>January 10, 2026</u></b><u>:</u></font></span></p><ul dir="ltr"><li style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award (DCFA) – Round 2</b></span></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Dissertation Year Fellowship Award (DYFA)</b></span></p></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>UC–HSI DDI President’s Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (UC-HSI DDI PPPF)</b></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Please note that these are <b>not first-year fellowships</b>. Instead, they are competitive opportunities for continuing PhD students to receive recognition for their academic achievements and support as they focus on completing their dissertations. The goal of these programs is to relieve students of teaching or equivalent responsibilities so they can progress toward timely degree completion.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">These opportunities are available to <b>PhD students who have advanced to candidacy</b>. </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b>Student Application Link:</b> <a href="https://grad.ucr.edu/portal/current_fellow_apps" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">https://grad.ucr.edu/portal/current_fellow_apps</a></span></p></div>