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Awards

Note: Amounts vary from year to year.

Summer Research Fellowship

  • $2500 funded through the Graduate School Block Grant and Brown Fund

Awarded to all first-year students.

Research and Scholarly Activity Support Funds

  • $300-$400 funded through the College of Liberal Arts

These funds can be used to support (a) graduate student travel to present scholarly work at conferences, (b) travel related to dissertation research, and (c) other dissertation research related expenses.

Graduate Research Partnership Program

  • $5000, CLA

Graduate students and faculty members may apply for funding for graduate students to carry out significant research in cooperation with a faculty advisor or mentor. The goal of the program is to foster collaborative work between faculty and students, and to promote progress by graduate students in their degree programs.

Darrell Haug Davis Fellowship

  • $16,000 plus tuition and health insurance, endowed fellowship

Awarded each year to the outstanding eligible grad student in the Dept. Applicants must have completed two years of graduate study (not necessarily all at the University of Minnesota) prior to application and must currently be in the doctoral program at Minnesota. The principal basis for judgment will be the quality of the research proposal itself. In evaluating proposals consideration will be given to methodological soundness, clarity, logical consistency, innovativeness, likely contribution to the discipline and/or to society at large, and feasibility.

Ralph H. Brown Prize

  • $500 endowed fund

Awarded to the best publication by a graduate student. Any graduate student in residence for any part of the current academic year who has had a paper published within that year or accepted for publication within that year (whatever the actual date of publication may be) may apply. For purposes of this award a publication must be a work intended for general dissemination to a scholarly audience.

Brown Fellowship

  • $15,000 endowed fund

Awarded to incoming student; not awarded every year.

Brown Fund is also used to provide cartographic support for grad student publications & theses up to a maximum of $600.

Departmental Fellowship

  • $21,000 Grad School Block Grant

Traditionally, awarded to the outstanding foreign applicant for their entrance year; not awarded every year.