Welcome

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.

The Foundation oversees the distribution of William Orr Dingwall Foundation Neurolinguistics Fellowships to doctoral candidates fulfilling their dissertation requirements and William Orr Dingwall Foundation Korean Ancestry Grants to students of Korean ancestry (and a limited number of exceptional students of other Asian ancestry) pursuing degrees at accredited universities in the United States.

Since it's inception, the Foundation has distributed more than $2,300,000 in grants and fellowships to over 90 scholars. During the Foundation's last funding cycle, the Foundation awarded $431,980 to 37 scholars. Recipients of the Foundation's 2009-2010 Korean Ancestry Grants and Neurolinguistics Dissertation Fellowship may be found on the Past Recipients page.

The 2010-2011 William Orr Dingwall Foundation Neurolinguistics Dissertation Fellows will be contacted July 15, 2010.

All of the Foundation's grant programs are currently closed.

Guidelines and information referring the 2011-2012 Korean Ancestry Grant and Neurolinguistics Dissertation Fellowship will be posted late October 2010.