Rhude M. Patterson Trustee Recruiting Fellowship

The Award

$5,000 awarded to incoming female graduate students in: 

• Humanities
• Social Sciences

About Rhude M. Patterson

Rhude Meetze Patterson earned a master’s degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1952. The wife of William H. Patterson, USC's 24th president, Ms. Patterson served for three years as the curator of the University Collections where she was instrumental in cataloguing the Baruch Silver Collection and moving the university's permanent collections from the War Memorial Building to McKissick Museum. She also served as president of the Columbia Garden Club. This fellowship was first awarded in 1983 and grew out of Ms. Patterson’s concern that women were not receiving sufficient financial support for graduate studies.

 

Nominations

As part of the nomination packet Graduate Directors will be required to submit:

• Letter of support (from the Graduate Director)
• CV or resume
• Personal statement (from student's Graduate School application)
• Letters of recomendation (from student's Graduate School application)

Admitted students should contact their academic program if they are interested in being nominated. Academic programs may nominate up to two incoming students from their respective programs.

All nomination materials should be sent as a single PDF file to Matt Klopfenstein, klopfenm@mailbox.sc.edu.

 

Nomination Deadline

The nomination deadline is March 7, 2025.