The Edward A. Bouchet Fellowship Program is named in honor of Yale's first African-American graduate and the first African-American in the United States to earn a Ph.D. The Bouchet Fellowship is designed to increase the number of students who exemplify attributes associated with Dr. Bouchet, namely, students who intend to pursue PhDs and subsequent careers in academia and who serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy, in particular, students who come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, are first-generation college students, or have otherwise faced significant obstacles in their pursuit of higher education.
The Edward A. Bouchet Undergraduate Fellowship Program is an effort to increase the pool of young people qualified to meet the needs of educational institutions into the next century. The Fellowship allows students to work on paid research projects during the academic year, and to pursue full-time research during the summers between sophomore and junior years, and between junior and senior years.
The Fellowship, which is supported by the generosity of Heaton Robertson ’65, enables students to work on paid research projects during the academic year and to pursue full-time research during the summers between sophomore and junior years and between junior and senior years.
