Loewenstern & Wagoner Fellowships

Loewenstern

The Loewenstern Fellowship program aims to develop student capacity for civic research, critical service, and leadership while also providing value to partners and communities where students are placed. Fellows apply asset-based and rights-based approaches to development in their work with their community partners. Fellows are also required to work through the ethical implications and considerations for their engagement in the classroom and through reflective practice in their placements.

Past Loewenstern Fellows have been placed in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. The fellowship is administered by Rice University’s Center for Civic Leadership (CCL) and is grounded in the learning outcomes and values of the CCL. Through classroom learning and experiential learning students engage with people, cultures, and complex global issues. Students acquire the skills, insight, and values that will enable them to become principled, civic-minded leaders in the 21st century.

Wagoner

The Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarship, founded by Rice alumnus James T. Wagoner ('29), provides students and alumni with the opportunity to conduct research abroad for a minimum of eight weeks and up to one year. A research project may be combined simultaneously with the advanced study of a language (400 level or above); or an introductory level of languages not offered at Rice. Funding is available up to $15,000 per award (Note: funding is considered taxable income). The Wagoner only supports university enrollment when it is required to get a visa in the host country.