Duke Graduate School

The Brown-Nagin Graduate Fellowship provides a $2,000 fellowship stipend supplement for for Ph.D. students in the humanities and social sciences to attend conferences, join consortia, sponsor student events, or for travel expenses related to their research interest.

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. Due to current travel restrictions, The Graduate School will not award conference travel awards related to actual travel at this time until further notice, but will award funds to cover web-based conference registration expenses. The same guidelines regarding the expense and application process should be followed.

The Dean’s Research Award for Master’s Students will provide up to $1,000 to fund the purchase of materials and supplies to support research relevant to a master’s student’s degree completion. This award cannot be used to fund travel.

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 for the duration of the academic year, both fall and spring semesters. 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.

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.

Through the generosity of the late Lottie Applewhite, an alumna of the Graduate Liberal Studies program, the Lottie Applewhite Award Endowment Fund was established to recognize scholarly excellence by providing support to students and faculty who make significant contributions to Graduate Liberal

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 $8,250.