Elizabeth Lambert has been selected to serve as the new director of the Meijer Office of Fellowships.
Lambert will begin her term on June 15.
Lambert comes to Grand Valley from Indiana University where she served as a senior consultant, proposal trainer and adviser. She was responsible for developing curriculum and training students and staff in effective grant-writing, discipline-specific academic writing and proposal development. She also worked to promote fellowships, internship and study abroad opportunities while assisting underrepresented students apply for global initiatives and fellowship programs.
Lambert has extensive experience with fellowships and awards, having helped more than 150 students obtain more than $5 million in fellowships since 2012 and having completed more than a dozen fellowships of her own.
“Elizabeth Lambert brings a wealth of experience both in personally applying for — and obtaining — prestigious fellowships, and in helping others to be successful in her advising work at the University of Indiana,” said Jeff Chamberlain, director of the Meijer Honors College. “She is ready and eager to step right in to the role of director, and we are excited to see how our students profit from working with her.”
Lambert will replace Amanda Cuevas, who served as the office’s founding director for five years.
“It is hard to imagine how anyone could have been more effective as a founding director,” Chamberlain said. “Amanda is one of the most student-centered people I have ever known, and she has a knack at connecting students to the right resources and fellowships, and for mentoring them through the process of applying. It’s hard to argue with her success since she helped students bring in over $1 million worth of fellowships in her five-year tenure.”
For more information, visit gvsu.edu/fellowships
