Application Instructions

Baccalaureate and Graduate Students

Applicants are responsible for submitting a complete application packet. Incomplete packets will not be considered. All applications must include the following:

  1. A completed Application Form.
  2. An official school transcript.
  3. A personal statement (not to exceed 2 pages) in narrative form, which will include professional and /or community activities within the past three years. Specify the type of activity, and participation (e.g. elected or voluntary, committee member or individual participant), and specify tasks, projects, roles, outcomes, and goals accomplished.
  4. Current resume/curriculum vitae (limited to 2 pages).
  5. Two letters of recommendation documenting contributions to professional, community, and/or scholarly activities.

Doctoral Students

Applicants are responsible for submitting a complete application packet. Incomplete packets will not be considered. All applications must include the following:

  1. A completed Application Form.
    1. PhD Grant Application
    2. DNP Grant Application
  2. A completed proposal of the investigators' research.
  3. Institutional Review Board approval or notice of exemption, if available.
  4. DNP candidates: an approved EBP / QI project proposal at the time of application submission or a letter from their DNP Faculty Chair stating that the proposal will be defended before the application submission deadline.
  5. PhD candidates: an approved dissertation research proposal at the time of application submission or a letter from their dissertation chairperson stating that the proposal will be defended before the application submission deadline.
  6. Curriculum vitae for principal investigator and all co-investigators.
  7. Finalized budget for the investigators' research.
  8. A completed Agreement Form (found within the application linked above).

Friend of Nursing Award

  1. A completed Application Form.
  2. One- to two-page letter from the nominator specifying how the nominee meets the criteria.

 

All materials are due no later than 5:00 PM on the application due date. Materials must be submitted electronically to the Scholarships, Grants, and Awards Committee at scholarships.upsilon@gmail.com.

 

Please direct questions to the Scholarships, Grants, and Awards Committee at scholarships.upsilon@gmail.com

 

Award recipients will be notified on the selected date. Award presentations will be made during the Upsilon Annual Induction and Awards Ceremony each Spring.