The William Orr Dingwall Foundation

The William Orr Dingwall Foundation

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 oversees 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.

2023-2024 RECIPIENTS

Foundations of Language Fellowships

Alexander Swiderski

University of Pittsburgh
Communication Science & Disorders

 

Garret Kurteff

The University of Texas at Austin
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Foundations of Language Fellowships

Julian Dirani

New York University
Cognition & Perception

 

Lauren Salig

University of Maryland, College Park
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

Foundations of Language Fellowships

Richard Antonello

University of Texas at Austin
Computer Science

 

Soujin Choi

Northwestern University
Communication Sciences and Disorders

About Our Foundation

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.