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.

This award is offered through The Graduate School. Incoming students are nominated by their department; no direct application is necessary. The Chancellor’s Scholarship is awarded to incoming graduate students studying biomedical sciences in the School of Medicine.

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 within the United States in order to conduct pre-dissertation or dissertation research.

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

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.

Thanks to generous funding from The Duke Endowment and the Graduate School Annual Fund, the Office of the Provost and The Graduate School are offering 10 Summer Research Fellowships for Ph.D.