The Dingwall Foundation will disburse its final awards in January 2025.
The Dingwall Foundation is no longer accepting applications.
Established by Dr. William Orr Dingwall for the purpose of supporting students in their pursuit of undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in a variety of fields, the Foundation oversaw the distribution of two scholarship programs:
1. The Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language to doctoral candidates fulfilling their dissertation requirements; and
2. The Dingwall Foundation’s Korean Ancestry Grants to students of Korean ancestry (and a limited number of exceptional students of other Asian ancestry) pursuing undergraduate degrees at accredited universities in the United States.
Over the past 30 years, the Dingwall Foundation distributed over $11,000,000 in academic awards to nearly 700 students.
The William Orr Dingwall Foundation was established in 1994 by Dr. William Orr Dingwall, a professor at the University of Maryland and a widely-published scholar and researcher in the area of the effects of brain physiology on speech and language.
Originally based in San Francisco, California, the Foundation’s operations moved to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area after the death of Dr. Dingwall in January of 2004.