International Graduate Research Fellowships
International Graduate Research Fellowships provide UMD graduate students a meaningful research experience in an international context, broadening the student’s knowledge and perspective. The fellowships take advantage of ongoing collaborations between UMD faculty and their international colleagues, and they provide an opportunity to enhance those collaborations.
Eligibility: This fellowship supports UMD students who are interested in conducting collaborative research abroad with international colleagues. Students may receive only one International Graduate Research Fellowship.
Nomination Process: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Send nominations to IGRF@umd.edu.
AY 26-27 Guidelines
Award Recipients
AY 2025-26
Ibiyina Mary Amokeodo, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Fellowship Location: Mbeya, Tanzania
Project: “Agricultural Irrigation Water Quality”
Eeshita Ghosh, Department of Biological Sciences
Fellowship Location: Dijon, France
Project: “Calcium Signaling of Root Hair”
Shriyam Gupta, Department of Sociology
Fellowship Location: Dijon, France
Project: “Indian Human Development Survey”
Valerie Hall, Department of Anthropology
Fellowship Location: Dijon, France
Project: “Zooarchaeology and GMM Projects”
Elizabeth Osei, Department of English
Fellowship Location: Dijon, France
Project: “Afrofuturist Mediascapes”
AY 2024-25
Ibiyina Mary Amokeodo, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Fellowship Location: Mbeya, Tanzania
Project: “Agricultural Irrigation Water Quality”
Kathleen Evans, Department of Entomology
Fellowship Location: Dijon, France
Project: “Effects of on-farm floral diversification on biodiversity and community structure of insects”
AY 2023-24
Gillian Boyce, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Fellowship Location: Italy
Project: “ALD”
Amin Shiraz Gilani, Department of Computer Science
Fellowship Location: The Netherlands
Project: “Quantum Query Complexity”
Panagiotis Nikolaidis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellowship Location: Sweden
Project: “Communication networks”
Kristen Regenauer, Department of Clinical Psychology
Fellowship Location: South Africa
Project: “Mental Health task-sharing”
Elnaz Safarha, Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Fellowship Location: Lebanon
Project: “Refugee education and disability inclusive education in Lebanon”
AY 2022-23
Molly Ellenberg, Department of Psychology
Fellowship Location: Rome, Italy
Valerie Hall, Department of Anthropology
Fellowship Location: United Kingdom
Project: “Geometric morphometrics in zooarchaeology”
Erfuan Noorani, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellowship Location: Sweden
Project: “Robust and Risk-sensitive Reinforcement Learning”
Alexandra Rose, Department of Psychology
Fellowship Location: South Africa
Project: “Mental Health task-sharing”
AY 2019-20
Daniela Bulansky, School of Language, Literatures, and Cultures
Fellowship Location: Argentina
Project: “The Construction of ‘Villa’ Spaces in Argentine Literature”
Aneesh Raghavan, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellowship Location: Sweden
Project: “Prospect theory and risk sensitive expected utility maximization”
Maria Rodriguez, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fellowship Location: Peru
Project: “Effects of mercury contamination in vegetation in Amazon forest”
AY 2018-19
Rebecca Butcher, Department of Geology
Fellowship Location: Academian Sinica, Taiwan
Project: “Post-Earthquake Deformation and Seismic Hazard”
Michelle Fabian, University of Tubingen, Germany
Fellowship Location: Queen Mary University, London
Project: “Defining Key Concepts in Cultural Property Crime”
Mohammad Khalil, Department of Physics
Fellowship Location: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany
Project: “Gravitational Waves Theory”
Haeyun Noh, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Fellowship Location: South Korea
Project: “The Effects of Health Education on Teenagers’ Health Behaviors”
Cara Snyder, Department of Women’s Studies
Fellowship Location: Universidad de Campinas, Brazil
Project: “Os Meninos Bons De Bola, The Soccer Star Boys”
Anne Spear, Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education
Fellowship Location: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Project: “The Impact of Service-Learning Pedagagy on Student Outcomes”
AY 2017-18
Jan Johannes Ahlrichs, University of Tubingen, Germany
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology
Project: “Soil and Human Culture Dynamics”
Haribert Beckmann, University of Tubingen, Germany
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology
Project: “Soil and Human Culture Dynamics”
Marina Chernikova, Department of Psychology
Fellowship Location: University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Project: “The Effects of Regulatory Mode on Work Performance”
Sabrina Gonzalez, Department of History
Fellowship Location: Instituto de Altos Estudios Sociales - Universidad de San Martin
Project: “Scientific Education in Argentina, Uruguay and Chile(1870-1930)”
Jessica Henkner, University of Tubingen, Germany
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology
Project: “Soil and Human Culture Dynamics”
Amr Keshta, Department of Environmental Science and Technology
Fellowship Location: University of Hamburg, Germany
Project: “Environmental science/Carbon sequestration/Greenhouse gas emission”
Sandra Teubner, University of Tubingen, Germany
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology
Project: “Soil and Human Culture Dynamics”
AY 2016-17
Maria Luz Bort Caballero, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowship Location: Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Project: "Words under an Open Sky: Time and Space in the Poetry of Spanish Women in Exile (1939-1977)"
Marina Chernikova, Department of Psychology
Fellowship Location: University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Project: “Regulatory Mode Complementarity in Psychology”
Melissa Gonzalez-Contreras, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowship Location: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Project: “Chilean Theater during Pinochet's Dictatorship”
Christopher Seitz-Brown, Department of Psychology
Fellowship Location: University of Cape Town, South Africa
Project: “Implementing an Intervention for HIV Medication Adherence and Substance Use”
Ganesh Sivaraman, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Fellowship Location: University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Project: “Speech Production Study of Accent Variation in Speech”
Yue Xizi, Chengdu Institute of Biology, China
Fellowship Location: Department of Biology, University of Maryland
Project: “Midbrain in Integration of Sound and Water-Wave Inputs”
AY 2015-16
Laura Bracaglia, Fischell Department of Bioengineering
Fellowship Location: National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Project: “Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering”
Emily Darly, University of Bristol, UK
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Department of Linguistics
Project: “Psycholinguistics”
Kevin Gibbons, Department of Anthropology
Fellowship Location: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Project: “Soils & Human Cultures During the Holocene Epoch”
Mark Gondelman, Hebrew University, Israel
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Department of History
Project: “Interaction between Jewish and Christian Thought in Early Modern Times”
Jennifer Guida, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Fellowship Location: Anhui Medical University, China
Project: “Social Networks and Health/Aging”
Hanna Landes, Hebrew University, Israel
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Department of English
Project: “The Disnarrated in Charles Dickens and Henry James”
Sara Mack, Department of Environmental Science and Technology
Fellowship Location: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Project: “Soils & Human Cultures During the Holocene Epoch”
Adriane Michaelis, Department of Anthropology
Fellowship Location: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Project: “Soils & Human Cultures During the Holocene Epoch”
Maria Monsalve, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Fellowship Location: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
Project: “Literature: Complication and Analysis of 'La Mano Desasida' by Martin Adan”
Saskia Ottschofski, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Fellowship Location: Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland
Project: “Children's acquisition of Pronouns”
Emily Rosenzweig, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
Fellowship Location: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Project: “Motivation in Mathematics (MoMa) Intervention”
Francisco Javier Simon Salinas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Fellowship Location: University of Maryland, Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Project: “Transvestism in Chile Poetry in Postdictators”
Barrett Wessel, Department of Environmental Science and Technology
Fellowship Location: University of Tuebingen, Germany
Project: “Soils & Human Cultures During the Holocene Epoch”