Fulbright New Zealand and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Indigenous Centre of Research Excellence, call for applications to the 2015 Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Award. This award, valued at up to US$33,000, is for a promising New Zealand graduate student to undertake postgraduate study or research at a US institution in the field of indigenous development during the 2015-2016 American academic year. This award was introduced in 2010 to support exchange activities meeting one or more of Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga’s research themes, as stated on their website at www.maramatanga.ac.nz/research/research-themes. The successful grantee can undertake an exchange to their choice of leading American universities, including Native American, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions renowned for their indigenous study and research programmes. Several past recipients of Fulbright-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Graduate Awards – Dan Bidois, Natalie Coates and Horiana Irwin-Easthope – have graduated with Masters degrees from Harvard University and another, Renee Wikaire, graduated with a Masters degree from Florida State University. The latest recipient of the award, Sharon Toi (Te Mahurehure, Ngāti Korokoro, Ngāpuhi), was announced at parliament last week. A PhD candidate at the University of Waikato, Sharon will conduct research into the roles of indigenous women in tribal governance in the US, at the University of Arizona in Tuscon. A Fulbright exchange provides life-changing opportunities to gain an international qualification and experience, advance your studies and career, explore America, share your culture and make friends and colleagues from around the world. Applications for this and other Fulbright New Zealand graduate awards close at 5pm, Friday 1 August 2014. For further information: Visit www.fulbright.org.nz or Contact Fulbright New Zealand’s Graduate Awards Programme Manager, Shauna Mendez – shauna@fulbright.org.nz / (04) 494 1500