Centennial Fellowships: In celebration of the Duke University 2024 Centennial, The Graduate School has founded three new Centennial Graduate and Professional Fellowships designed to for incoming doctoral and master's students. These fellowships are funded through The Duke Endowment to attract the best graduate students during the admission season.
Nominations submitted by program leadership will be reviewed by a CGPF Working group using a rubric, comprising one faculty representative from each school and chaired by the Vice Provost for Graduate Education. Nominees can be both domestic and international applicants, and admission is not required in order to nominate an applicant for any of the Centennial Fellowships.
Applicants nominated for the Ph.D. Centennial Fellowships cannot be nominated for the James B. Duke Fellowship; Centennial Ph.D. nominees can be nominated for the Dean’s Graduate Fellowship and Sloan Scholars awards.
Read more about the three Centennial fellowships and please contact grad-fellowships@duke.edu if you have any questions.
Centennial Graduate Professional Fellowship
The Centennial Graduate Professional Fellowship supports:
- any incoming doctoral or MFA student, domestic or international, through
- The Duke Endowment (TDE) Graduate and Professional Fellowship fund, offering a
- $5,000 stipend supplement per year for three years (renewable annually, with sufficient academic progress)
Nomination Application Requirements
The nomination application for the Centennial Graduate Professional Fellowship requires:
- Maximum of two nominees per Ph.D./MFA program, ranked in order of preference
- DGS signed nomination letter that includes:
- One paragraph describing the nominee's characteristics that make it imperative they be recruited to your program and to Duke (Carolinas graduate preferred)
- One paragraph describing the recruitment funding package (if any) offered to the applicant, how it compares to those offered to other applicants, and expected impact of CGPF monies (i.e. relocation expenses, additional stipend, tuition scholarship, etc.)
Centennial Graduate Professional MSI* Fellowship
The Centennial Graduate Professional Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellowship supports:
- any incoming doctoral/MFA student with an undergrad degree from MSI, domestic or international, funded by
- The Duke Endowment (TDE) MSI Graduate and Professional Fellowship fund, offering a
- $5,000 stipend supplement per year for three years (renewable annually, with sufficient academic progress)
- Other benefits include professional development and community building support through the Duke University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM)
Nomination Application Requirements
The nomination application for the Centennial Graduate Professional MSI Fellowship requires:
- Maximum of two nominees per Ph.D./MFA program, ranked in order of preference
- DGS signed nomination letter that includes:
- One paragraph describing the nominee's characteristics that make it imperative that they be recruited to your program and to Duke
- Name of the undergraduate school and why/ how it qualifies as an MSI (Carolinas graduate preferred)
- Description of how applicant would benefit from UCEM support as they transition into / transit through graduate school
- One paragraph describing the recruitment funding package (if any) offered to the applicant, how it compares to those offered to other applicants, and expected impact of CGPF monies (i.e. relocation expenses, additional stipend, tuition scholarship, etc.
*MSI - Minority Serving Institution
Please note: the term “Minority Serving Institution” applies to many different types of institutions. Please see these links for details. In some cases, the links lead to approved lists of institutions and in others the demographics needed to be classified in the category (some of the categories do not have government-approved lists of institutions).
- Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Predominantly Black Non-HBCUs
- Black Serving Non-HBCUs
- Hispanic Serving Institutions
- Tribal Colleges
- Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institutions
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Serving Institutions
- Alaska Native Serving Institutions
- Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
Centennial Graduate Professional Master's MSI*Fellowship
The Centennial Graduate Professional Master's Minority Serving Institution (MSI) Fellowship supports:
- incoming Master's students, excluding MFA, domestic or international, in programs designed to bridge to a doctorate, through
- The Duke Endowment (TDE) MSI Graduate and Professional Fellowship fund, offering a
- Doctoral stipend for one academic year, fall and spring, plus a full tuition scholarship
- Other benefits include professional development and community building support through the Duke University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM)
Nomination Application Requirements
The nomination application for the Centennial Graduate Professional Master's Fellowship requires:
- Maximum of two nominees per Master's program, ranked in order of preference
- DGS signed nomination letter that includes:
- One paragraph describing the nominee's characteristics that make it imperative that they be recruited to your program and to Duke
- Name of the undergraduate school and why/ how it qualifies as an MSI (Carolinas graduate preferred)
- Description of how applicant would benefit from this opportunity as they transition into / transit through graduate school
- One paragraph describing the Master's to doctoral bridge, and how student will transit