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Undergraduate Research Support Office
Project Funding for Summer and Academic year
Undergraduate Research Projects
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Summer Support for Undergraduate Research Projects
- Asian/Pacific
Studies Institute of Duke University (APSI)
Support to do independent research in East Asian Countries (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan) - American
Society for Microbiology
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Benenson Awards
Support to broaden educational and professional objectives in the Arts - Berlin Project
Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Berlin and Environs -
Biology and biomedical research programs
Biology and biomedical research programs.
Bookhout Research Scholarship
Duke University Marine Laboratory Course and Research Fellowship
- Center for
Documentary Studies
Support for summer-long documentary fieldwork projects - Center
for European Studies
Three summer research grants to students preparing senior honors theses on political, historical, economic, social, cultural and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe. - Center for International Studies
Grants for summer research projects conducted overseas - Child and Family Policy, Center for
Internship Program for Ethnic Minority Undergraduates
to conduct drug abuse research
- C-SURF
Computer Science Undergraduate Research Fellows -
Deans' Summer Research Fellowships
Summer research support for Trinity College undergraduates for projects they propose; designated funds for first year students, research abroad, on campus research and library projects
- Economics
Davies Fellowships for economics majors to support research prior between the junior and senior year. Candidates for the Davies Fellowship must be nominated by a sponsoring economics faculty mentor. Also EcoTeach Research Grants
The EcoTeach will consider funding requests from undergraduates who need to purchase data sets or specialized software in order to conduct research as part of the honors program. - Genome
Sciences and Policy, Summer Fellowships
Ten week program for rising sophomores and juniors offering mentored research projects and/or laboratory work with faculty mentors in the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) - Health
Inequalities Summer Internship
Opportunities for undergraduates to explore health inequalities through research, policymaking, and fieldworkHoward Hughes Research Fellows
Eight week mentorships in the biological and biomedical sciences for rising Duke sophomores
Howard Hughes Vertically Integrated Partners (VIP) Program
Opportunities for systems-level summer research

- Institut Pasteur- Paul W. Zaccaire Internship Program
10-week summer internships at the Pasture Institute, Paris (deadline Dec. 15, 2006) - Jim
Bernstein Health Policy Scholars Program
A partnership between Duke's Center for Health Policy and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine
Latin
America and the Caribbean, Research in - see Mellon Undergraduate
Awards below
- Latino/a Studies
Research Support Awards
Two awards available to support independent research and travel projects during Summer - Marine Laboratory
See Rachel Carson Scholars and Bookhout Research Scholarships - Mechanisms
of Behavior
An NSF-REU summer program in behavior and neurobiology at Duke University -
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Directed research in designated areas of the arts and sciences
- Mellon
Undergraduate Awards
Mellon Undergraduate Awards for summer research in Latin America and the Caribbean - NSF- REU
Research Experiences for Undergraduates-Natural and Social Sciences - OTS
Organization for Tropical Studies - Tropical Biology in Costa Rica - Pratt
Fellows
Pratt Engineering Undergraduate Research Fellows - (summer & academic year) - PRUV Fellowships
Research mentorship in mathematics - Psi
Chi Research
Grants and
Research Awards in Psychology
Members of Psi Chi may apply for research grants from the National Honor Society in Psychology - Rachel Carson Scholars
At the Duke University Marine Laboratory - Ralph
Bunche Summer Institute
Research methodology in political science for rising senior minority undergraduates - TUNL
REU at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratories - Visual Studies Summer Research Fellowships
- Women's
Studies Research
Research and travel, summer and academic year
Academic Year Support for Undergraduate Research
- American
Society for Microbiology
ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship - Asian/Pacific
Studies Institute of Duke University (APSI)
Support to do independent research in East Asian Countries (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan)
- Dannenberg Awards
Grants for first and second-year students working with faculty advisors
- The Explorers Club Youth Activity
Fund
Grants for supervised field research in the natural sciences -
Focus Grants, Stay in
Encourages collaboration between faculty and students who have participated in the Focus ProgramHolton Award
An award for Early Childhood Studies
- Jim
Bernstein Health Policy Scholars Program
A partnership between Duke's Center for Health Policy and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine - NC Academy of Science
Yarbrough Research Grants for science research - Pratt Research Fellows Program
Provides engineering undergraduates with an opportunity to do intensive research in their engineering major and receive course credit and the opportunity to do summer research
- Psi
Chi Research
Grants and
Research Awards in Psychology
Members of Psi Chi may apply for research grants from the National Honor Society in PsychologyResearch in Practice Program (RIPP)
Undergraduate independent studies that identify and analyze feasible business solutions for issues within the fields of global health, the environment, and other societal concerns
Grants for scientific investigation in any field
- Trinity College Research Forums for
Undergraduate Independent Research in the
Biological or Neural Sciences
Grants for third- and fourth-year students for projects on the basis of applications they prepare and submit -
URS (Undergraduate Research Support Program)
Grants and assistantships in all areas of scholarship for fall and spring semesterURS Travel Grants
Support for undergraduates to present a research report at a regional or national professional meeting - Women's
Studies Research
Research and travel, summer and academic year
- DUKE LIBRARY
- JURP The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics
- JYI
Journal of Young Investigators - NCUR
National Conference on Undergraduate Research - PCJUR
The Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research (Psychology) - State of North Carolina Undergraduate Research Symposium
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Visible Thinking
Students who have conducted original research in libraries, archives, laboratories, and field sites present their results Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
Undergraduate Research Support Office and
Pre-Graduate Study Advisingursoffice@duke.edu
Duke University
011 Allen Building, Box 90051
Durham, NC 27708-0051
Phone: 684-6536, fax: 660-0488


