More than two dozen UArizona students have been offered prestigious graduate fellowships, totaling nearly $1.2 million. The awards come from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, NASA, National Institutes of Health and other organizations.
The Education Department does not consider native language skills as a plus in evaluating applications for a competitive research program. A lawsuit is trying to change that. The Education Department is extending the deadline and rethinking how it selects fellows for its competitive Fulbright-Hays doctoral research program following lawsuits and a federal order that blocks the agency from applying certain foreign language criteria to 2023 applicants.
A rejected applicant for the U.S. Department of Education's prestigious Fulbright-Hays Fellowship has asked a Texas federal court to force the government to reevaluate her application, claiming that she was penalized under a "discriminatory native language penalty."