Duke Graduate School

The Dissertation Research Travel Award from The Graduate School provides funding for Ph.D. students to travel outside the United States in order to conduct pre-dissertation or dissertation research.

The James B. Duke International Research Travel Fellowship provides an annual stipend (equivalent to the Graduate School-recommended Arts and Sciences nine-month stipend established each year), as well as tuition, mandatory fees and a $2,000 travel allowance for students who need to conduct their dissertation research abroad. In addition, The Graduate School will pay the health insurance premium for recipients who enroll in the Duke Student Medical Insurance Plan.

Through the generosity of the Julian Price Endowment, The Graduate School is offering several competitive fellowships with accompanying research awards.

Beginning in 2014, most Ph.D. students at Duke are guaranteed summer research fellowships for the summers after their first and second academic years of study. In addition to summer tuition and fees, the fellowship awards a summer stipend of $5,500.

The Summer Research Fellowship will pay a stipend of $5,500 for the period from June 1 to August 31, plus summer tuition and health fee. Prior receipt of this competitive Summer Research Fellowships will be taken into consideration during application review.

The Graduate School provides up to $525 for domestic and $700 for international travel for advanced students who have passed all parts of the preliminary examination and are presenting a paper or poster at a regional, national, or international conference.

The Duke Graduate School is offering a summer research fellowship for a graduate student in public policy, social sciences, or the humanities who is doing research on women or girls of color. 

The Jeffs Summer Research Fellowship provides a stipend of $7,350 for the three-month period from June 1 to August 31, plus summer tuition and the summer health fee for one outstanding Ph.D. student enrolled in The Graduate School for studies in the Department of Chemistry.

The Shaffer-Hunnicutt Summer Research Fellowship will provide a stipend of $7,350 for the three-month period from June 1 to August 31, plus summer tuition and the summer health fee for one outstanding Ph.D. student enrolled in The Graduate School for studies in the Department of Chemistry.

The Karen L. Wrenn Alzheimer’s Disease Travel Award for Graduate Students provides up to $2500 each to two graduate students for travel to an Alzheimer’s conference of their choice.