Comprised of distinguished faculty from across campus, the Fellowship Board determines recipients of the Graduate College's main fellowship and grant programs. Those programs include the Illinois Distinguished Fellowships, Graduate College Fellowships, Aspire Fellowships, Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities & Arts, Dissertation Completion Fellowships, and Travel Grants. The Fellowship Board also advises the Graduate College on fellowship-related issues and plays a key role in helping the University of Illinois recruit and support exemplary graduate students.
Fellowship Board Membership 2022-2023
Executive Committee
| Lance Cooper | 2021-2024 | Physics |
| Christina Bashford | 2020-2023 | Music |
| Yuan-Xiang Pan | 2022-2025 | Food Science & Human Nutrition |
| Anna-Maria Marshall | 2020-2023 | Sociology |
| Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, Dean, ex-officio | Graduate College | |
| Ken Vickery, Director of Fellowships, staff | Graduate College |
section 1: diversity recruitment fellowships (graduate College fellowships for URM Students & aspire fellowships)
Engineering, Physical Sciences, & Mathematics (Area I)
| Karen Mortensen | 2022-2025 | Mathematics |
| R. Mohan Sankaren | 2022-2025 | Nuclear, Plasma, & Radiation Engineering |
| Vetle Torvik | 2021-2024 | Information Sciences |
Humanities & Arts (Area II)
| Manisha Basu | 2020-2023 | English |
| Jason P. Chambers | 2022-2025 | Media |
| Adam Kruse | 2022-2025 | Music |
Social & Behavioral Sciences & Professional Programs (Area III)
| Andrew J. Greenlee | 2022-2025 | Urban & Regional Planning |
| Brian Jordan Jefferson | 2022-2025 | Geography & Geographic Information Science |
| Sharde Smith | 2021-2024 | Human Development & Family Studies |
Biological & Agricultural Sciences (Area IV)
| Juanmahel Davila | 2021-2024 | Comparative Biosciences |
| Zeynep Madak-Erdogan | 2022-2023 | Food Science & Human Nutrition (Graduate College Faculty Fellow) |
| James O'Dwyer | 2022-2025 | Plant Biology |
section 2: illinois distinguished fellowships, distinguished graduate fellowships in humanities & arts, dissertation completion fellowships, & travel grants
Engineering, Physical Sciences, & Mathematics (Area I)
| Lance Cooper | 2021-2024 | Physics |
| Wawosz Dobrucki | 2020-2023 | Bioengineering |
| R. S. Sreenivas | 2022-2025 | Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering |
Humanities & Arts (Area II)
| Christina Bashford | 2020-2023 | Music |
| Javier Irigoyen-Garcia | 2021-2024 | Spanish & Portuguese |
| Peter Leslie Mortensen | 2022-2025 | English |
Behavioral & Social Sciences & Professional Programs (Area III)
| Christy L. Lleras | 2022-2025 | Human Development & Family Studies |
| Anna-Maria Marshall | 2020-2023 | Sociology |
| Matthew S. Winters | 2022-2025 | Political Science |
Biological & Agricultural Sciences (Area IV)
| Maria Cattai de Godoy | 2021-2024 | Animal Sciences |
| CheMyong Jay Ko | 2022-2025 | Comparative Biosciences |
| Yuan-Xiang Pan | 2022-2025 | Food Science & Human Nutrition |