for doctoral students at U.S. universities

Every year the Joseph M. Juran Center selects and honors doctoral candidates from the University of Minnesota and other leading research universities whose research shows the most promise in broadening and fueling thinking and practices in the area of quality in their chosen fields.

The purpose of the Juran Fellowship Program is to support doctoral thesis research and to recognize doctoral students who show potential to make substantial career contributions to the field of leadership in quality. Applicants are typically in the third or fourth year of their doctoral programs.

Since 1998, the Joseph M. Juran Center has awarded more than 40 Juran Fellowships. Many of those Fellows have gone on to teach at leading research universities, including the University of Michigan, University of Illinois and The Pennsylvania State University.

Click past recipients to view previous Juran Fellows.

2009 Call for Proposals

For more information about the 2009 program, please contact Jill Pearson-Wood at 612-626-4555 or pears128@umn.edu.