The Graduate College welcomes two new Ford Foundation Fellows to ASU

Sarra Tekola and Alexandrina Agloro have both been awarded Ford Foundation Fellowships to research at ASU.

Sarra won Ford’s predoctoral award. She is a PhD student in ASU’s School of Sustainability, and she’s researching how to build eco-communities for underprivileged populations.

Alexandrina won Ford’s postdoctoral award. She is current faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA), and she’ll be using her Ford Fellowship to reside and research at ASU’s Nexus Co-op starting in the spring of 2019. 

The Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, to maximize the educational benefits of diversity and to increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Predoctoral, Dissertation and Postdoctoral fellowships are to be awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in a national competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The predoctoral award includes an annual stipend of $24,000 for three years of a five year period. The dissertation award includes a one-year stipend of $25,000. And, the postdoctoral award includes a one-year stipend of $45,000. All three awards come with many additional benefits.

Sarra Tekola took advantage of last year’s information session and credits it with helping her to win the Ford Fellowship.

If you’re interested in the Ford Fellowship, be sure to RSVP to the Ford Fellowship information session on Thursday, October 25, 2018, from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m., Tempe campus, Memorial Union 236 (Mohave room).