McDermott Scholars Program

As Eugene McDermott Scholars, students pursue their choice of majors while having a variety of opportunities for academic advancement, leadership, service, and social involvement. Scholars have a rigorous academic experience that includes access to UT Dallas leading professors, McDermott Alumni and a network of mentors and career contacts. The McDermott Program specifically supports Scholars in being models of engagement and agents of change for a lifetime of positive impact on their communities and the world.

McDermott Scholars have studied abroad in over 50 countries from Argentina to Zambia. They have won prestigious awards such as the Fulbright, Marshall, Harry S. Truman, Barry M. Goldwater, U.S. Department of State/CAORC Critical Language, and NIH/Ox-Cam scholarships, as well as the David L. Boren, Leonard M. Rieser, and NSF Graduate Research fellowships. Program alumni have gone on to further study at institutions including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Virginia, Cambridge, London School of Economics, Northwestern, Emory, University of Michigan.

Could a student from your high school be a future McDermott Scholar?

The programs website (www.utdallas.edu/mcdermott ) and the hyperlinks below provide an overview of the remarkable opportunities this award provides please click through to learn more. While we have completed the application process for the 2010 Class, please share this information with your juniors so they may apply to be in the 2011 class