Other Support
Conference Travel (pdf)
The Graduate School will provide up to $500 for advanced students who have passed all parts of the preliminary examination and are presenting a paper or poster at a national conference. See application (pdf) for further details.
Childbirth and Adoption Accommodation Policy (pdf)
This policy guarantees PhD students a minimum level of accommodation during the transition to parenthood and reflects the Graduate School’s ongoing commitment to supporting graduate students parents and a healthy academic work/family live balance. Individual departments and degree programs have the discretion and are encouraged to exceed these guidelines where possible and appropriate.
Sigma Xi
The Graduate School currently provides matching funding for these awards. Send a copy of the Sigma Xi award letter to the financial aid office in the Graduate School to receive matching funds.
Howard Hughes Vertically Integrated Partners Program
The Graduate School currently provides summer tuition and fee support for PhD students selected as summer mentors in this program.
The Inter-Institutional Academic Collaborative (IAC)
The ACC-IAC was created in 1999 by the presidents of the Atlantic Cost Conference universities to encourage and coordinate academic collaboration among the members. One such collaboration was the development of the Traveling Scholar Program for Ph.D. Candidates. This program enables doctoral-level students at participating Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) universities to take advantage of distinctive educational opportunities such as specialized courses, unique library collections, unusual laboratories, etc. at any other participating ACC university without change in registration or increase in tuition. Students also have the opportunity to receive a travel grant of up to $1,000 for participation in the program. Interested students can download program procedures, contact information, and an application from the ACC-IAC website. Please contact David Brown, IAC Program Coordinator, at brown@wfu.edu if you have additional questions concerning the program, application process or eligibility for travel grants.
Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund Fellowships
Fellowships are restricted to graduate students who are United States citizens. Any recognized field of study in the humanities, social sciences or natural sciences (including law, medicine, engineering, architecture or other formal professional training), can apply. Email grad-finaid@duke.edu for more information.
Kenan Institute for Ethics Dissertation Fellowship
The Kenan Dissertation Fellowship in Ethics is awarded annually to an advanced graduate student writing a dissertation with a substantial focus on ethics. Duke students in all disciplines are eligible: arts, humanities, social, physical, and biological sciences.
Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity
The Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity sponsors several Dissertation-Year Visiting Diversity Fellowships for Advanced Graduate Students in all fields. The Consortium’s goal is to increase the diversity of the nation's college and university faculties by maximizing the educational benefits of diversity, increasing the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students and enhancing opportunities for academic careers to persons who are underrepresented in the professoriate or to persons who have demonstrated a commitment to the elimination of racial disparities.
The Woodrow Wilson Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies
Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies Fellowships are provided to Ph.D. candidates studying humanities and/or social sciences disciplines at U.S. institutions, who will complete their dissertations during the fellowship year and whose work addresses topics of women and gender in interdisciplinary and original ways.
David L. Boren Fellowship
The David L. Boren Fellowship supports American graduate students both at the master's and the doctoral level, and allows graduate students to add an important international and language component to their studies. The program focuses on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study deemed critical to U.S. national security, recognizing that the scope of national security has expanded to include not only the traditional concerns of protecting and promoting American well-being, but also the challenges of a global society.