FOUNDATION for HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS RESEARCH (FHER) FELLOWSHIPS

  • Griffin/McKahan/Zilm (GMZ) Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning & Design 
  • The Wilbur H (Tib) Tusler, Jr. Health Design Research Prize

ADDITIONAL FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS | AIA/AAH

  • Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design
  • Healthcare Design’s Best Under 40 (U40)
  • SLS Next Generation
  • Herman Miller Healthcare Scholarship

**See below for more details on each scholarship, fellowships and awards.

For questions about Foundation for Health Environments Research – Fellowships, please contact: Foundation for Health Environments Research – Fellowship Chair, Herminia Machry at hsmachry@ku.edu


Griffin/McKahan/Zilm (GMZ) Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning & Design 

• This fellowship has been established and supported by three leaders in healthcare
planning through the Foundation for Health Environments Research (FHER) Legacy
fund.

• This fellowship supports graduate students, junior faculty, and emerging professionals in
healthcare facility planning and design.

• The specific goals of this fellowship include encouraging research related to healthcare
programming and planning as well as to the general practice of healthcare architecture

• Fellowship award(s) range from $2,000 – $9,000

Please see the booklet below for application details. Applications Due April 1st, 2024

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Tuttle & GMZ Fellowship Application – PDF


The Wilbur H (Tib) Tusler, Jr. Health Design Research Prize | Open

The Tusler Health Design Research Prize recognizes outstanding research in the planning and design of facilities for health.  The annual award seeks to acknowledge excellence in applied research through a cash award of $2,500 and special recognition in the Health Environments Research and Design (HERD) peer reviewed journal.  Funding of the prize is provided through the Foundation for Health Environments Research.

Deadline: Submissions should be received by  March 03, 2023.

Please see the PDF below for all application requirements.

The Tusler Health Design Research Prize – PDF


ADDITIONAL FELLOWSHIPS & Scholarships

Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design | Applications Due April 23, 20201
The Tuttle Fellowship supports graduate students and emerging professionals seeking licensure, increasing their awareness of the needs and nature of healthcare facilities, attracting talented young architects and students to the field and advancing the knowledge of planning and design for healthcare environments. Awards are typically from $2,000 – $10,000.

Goals:
• To increase architecture and healthcare students’ awareness of the special needs and nature of healthcare facilities
• To attract talented young architects and students to this field
• To advance the knowledge of planning and design for healthcare environments
• To establish relevant research material for the profession of healthcare architecture

See the PDF below for the application form and more details.

Applications Due April 23, 2021

Past Arthur Tuttle Fellowship Award Recipient -PDF


Healthcare Design’s Best Under 40 (U40) | To open February 2021

The U40 List is an award to celebrate individuals making a significant contribution to the advancement of health facilities design. Each year up to two individuals will be selected to have their names added to the distinguished U40 List. The U40 List recipients will receive a travel stipend to attend the Summer Leadership Summit in Chicago in July.

Applicants should be individuals making a significant impact on healthcare design who will be under 40 years of age on April, 2021 and have worked on healthcare related projects for at least the past five years. For more information, please download the PDF below.

2020 U40 List: Marybeth Dietz, AIA

2019 U40 List: Colleen Newland, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP and Parini Mehta, AIA, LEED AP
2018 U40 List: Diana Anderson, MD, M.Arch, LEED AP and Akshay Sangolli, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C
2017 U40 List: Jhiah Chang, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, EDAC and Hao Duong, AIA, LEED AP
2016 U40 List: Joaquim Meira, Intl. Assoc. AIA and Tammy Thompson, AIA
2015 U40 List: Brandy Olsen and Erin Peavey, AIA, EDAC, LEED AP BD+C

2020 U40 Application – PDF


SLS Next Generation Scholarship | To open in March 2021.

The Academy of Architecture for Health (AAH) and the American College of Healthcare Architects (ACHA) will sponsor four emerging professionals seeking licensure to attend the Summer Leadership Summit (SLS). The SLS is an annual gathering in Chicago of approximately 175 leaders in healthcare design from the U.S. and around the world. Attendees convene for two days of presentations and panel discussions that address the future of healthcare from the government, healthcare organization and design community perspectives.

Each selected recipient will receive up to a $1,000 reimbursement to cover air travel, hotel room costs, and incidentals. Registration for the summit and tour fees will be complimentary. Scholarship candidates electronically submit application materials. See below for more details.

2021 SLS Next Generation Scholar Application – PDF


Herman Miller Healthcare Scholarship | To open April 2021

Herman Miller Healthcare sponsors up to eight emerging professionals seeking licensure to attend the Healthcare Design Expo and Conference, the fall conference of the Center for Health Design/AIA Academy of Architecture for Health. Each selected recipient will receive reimbursement to cover registration fees, air travel, and hotel room costs.

Please see the PDF below for all application requirements.

Herman Miller Scholarship 2021 – PDF