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Note: this guide represents the information available at the time of
publication. Funding requirements may change and new opportunities may become
available. Interested students should directly contact the offices listed for
information.
Internships
Career Services, 646-2215
- M. R. Robinson Internship: for work in children's educational
media/literature.
- Fisher Internship: for work in advertising, public relations and
publishing.
- Nancy Boehm Coster Public Policy Career Encouragement Program Stipend: to
encourage work in non-profit agencies or the public policy sector involving
public policy and service issues.
Dickey Center for International Understanding, 646-2024
- United Nations Internship: funding for non-paid positions in one of the
many UN departments and agencies.
- German (Bonn) Parliament Internship: intern/research assistant in the
German Parliament. Stipend paid by the Parliament.
- Dickey Center International Internship Program: for projects across a broad
range of international interests.
- Lucas Family Third World Internship: to encourage increased understanding
of issues that concern the world's developing nations.
- Dickey Senior Thesis Travel Grant: to offset senior thesis research travel
costs.
- Richard D. Lombard Public Service Program: for volunteer public service in
US or abroad. (Minimum 6 months up to one year. Available to graduating seniors
only).
Mellon Foundation, 646-3376
- Mellon Foundation Grant: to encourage the pursuit of teaching careers in
the humanities.
Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Civic Leadership, 646-2207
- Rockefeller Public Affairs Internship: for work in non-paid public affairs
and public policy internships.
- Putnam Public Affairs Internship: for work in non-paid public affairs
internship in the State of New Hampshire.
- Director's Discretionary Grants: limited funding available for educational
opportunities that fall outside the regular internship programs.
Tucker Foundation -- Office of Fellowships and Internships, 646-3373
- Tucker Fellowships: to explore issues of personal growth and values through
community service projects at domestic and international non-profit
organizations. Stipends provided. Also available as leave-term work study.
- Dartmouth Partners in Community Service Internship: for community service
work in U.S. placements. Interns are matched with a Dartmouth Alumni mentor.
Stipend provided. Also available as leave-term work study.
- Urban Summer Internship: leave-term off-campus opportunity for a team of
Dartmouth students to work in the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, New Jersey
each summer. Stipend provided.
Administrative Internship Program, 646-0091
- Administrative Internship Program: internships for juniors and seniors in
various college offices.
Women in Science Project, 646-3690
- Women in Science Project Internships: paid, part-time faculty mentored
laboratory research opportunities (winter-spring terms) for first-year women.
Application process begins early October.
Research Grants
Anthropology Department, 646-3256
- Claire Garber Goodman Grant: for the anthropological study of past and
present peoples and cultures. A background in anthropology is required.
- Presidential Scholars: opportunity for juniors to learn research techniques
and methods for two terms under the direct supervision of a professor. To be
eligible for the program, students must have a GPA that places them in the top
40% of their class. The application period is winter and spring of sophomore
year.
- Research Grants: funding for Dartmouth undergraduates to engage in
independent research with a Dartmouth College faculty mentor. Grants are
awarded for research conducted during a leave term and for research related to
senior honors theses.
- Mellon Mays Fellowships: funding for students committed to issues of racial
diversity who plan to pursue Ph.D.s in select field in the arts and sciences.
Students apply in winter term of sophomore year and work on the research
projects during junior and senior years.
- Senior Fellowships: opportunity for students to spend senior year pursuing
an independent research or creative project. Senior fellows are not required to
enroll in classes during their senior year nor are they required to complete a
major. Students must apply for the Senior Fellowship no later than two terms
before the Fellowship is to begin.
- When to
apply for funding.
Dickey Center for International Understanding, 646-1278
- Stefansson Fellowship: for field experiences and research under Arctic
conditions in any area of study represented in the Dartmouth curriculum.
- Dickey Senior Thesis Travel Grant: to offset senior thesis research travel
costs.
Office of Residential Life, 646-3094
- Class of 1939 Senior Scholar Program: grants up to $1,000 to support
seniors living in ORL housing who are working on an honors thesis.
Outdoor Programs Office, 646-0351
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant: for the purpose of stimulating and
encouraging undergraduate response to environmental issues.
Psychology Department, 646-3181
- Benjamin G. Benner '69 Undergraduate Research Support Fellowship: for
undergraduate honors research in Psychology.
- Filene Undergraduate Fellowship in Human Relations: to support psychology
majors doing full-time research in the area of human relations.
Academic Prizes
African and African-American Studies Department, 646-3397
- The Pamela Joyner '79 Prize in African and Afro-American Studies: for an
outstanding research paper/thesis by a graduating senior on any aspect of the
Black experience.
- The Gary Love '76 Prize in African and Afro-American Studies: to be awarded
to a member of the graduating class of outstanding achievement in African and
Afro-American Studies.
Computer Science Department, 646-2206
- John G. Kemeny Computing Prize: for production of original and creative
computer applications. Cash prizes awarded to the best entries, as judged by a
panel of Computer Science faculty.
Dickey Center for International Understanding, 646-2023
- Chase Peace Prize: $1000 for the best essay(s) on subjects relating to the
promotion of world peace.
English Department, 646-3993
- Academy of American Poets University and College Poetry Prizes: annual
contest in the spring offering $100 for the best poem(s) submitted to the
English/Creative Writing Department.
- Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Award: $100 prize for the best manuscript
of original poems.
- Grimes Prize in English Composition: $350 awarded to a senior for any form
of writing except for plays; no more than three manuscripts may be submitted. A
group of poems may be considered one manuscript.
- Lockwood Prize in English Composition: $145 awarded a junior for any form
of writing except for plays, no more than three manuscripts may be submitted. A
group of poems may be considered one manuscript.
- Sidney Cox Memorial Prize: $100 to $500 offered annually for that piece of
undergraduate writing which most nearly meets those high standards of
originality and integrity which Sidney Cox set for himself and for his students
in his teaching and in his book, Indirections for Those Who Want to
Write.
- Thomas Henry Ralston IV Memorial English 80 Prize: for excellence in
English 80.
- Hardy-Skilling Prize in Literature: $600 for demonstrating extraordinary
promise in the writing of English fiction and/or poetry.
- Benjamin F. Barge Prize for Oratory Speech Contest: offered winter term;
open to seniors exclusively. Prizes will be awarded for the best original
ten-minute persuasive speech on any subject.
- The Class of 1866 Oratorical Prize Speech Contest: offered winter term;
open to sophomores and juniors. Prizes awarded for the best ten-minute
informative or persuasive speech on any subject.
Film Studies Department, 646-3402
- Alexander Laing Memorial Writing Award: for the best original screenplay by
an undergraduate.
- Alexander Nagle III Award: for significant achievements in broadcast
journalism and/or documentary audio-visual communication.
Government Department, 646-2544
- Edson Memorial Prize: given for excellence in Government 3, 4, 5 and 6;
$100 book award.
- Colby Prize: $200 book award given to a senior for outstanding overall
academic performance as a Government major.
- Thesis Prizes:
- Pressman Prize - for a thesis of outstanding quality in the field of
American Government and politics.
- Bennett Essay Prize - for a thesis of outstanding quality in political
theory or public law.
- Rockefeller Prize in Comparative Politics - for a thesis of outstanding
quality in the field.
- Rockefeller Prize in International Relations - for a thesis of outstanding
quality in the field.
Each of the four thesis prizes involves an award of $200 and an engraved pewter
plate. The Department has the decision not to make an award where there is no
thesis of outstanding quality in the subfield.
- Rockefeller Fellowship: for the revision of an exceptional Honors thesis or
Senior Fellow project, which shows promise of publication. Recipient normally
spends the summer following graduation in residence revising the honors thesis
(if possible in the form of a publishable article or book.)
Music Department, 646-2520
- Gerald Tracy Piano Competition/Scholarship Fund: competition held annually
in the spring, with a scholarship awarded to a serious piano student, who shows
potential for a professional career as a concert pianist.
Studio Art Department, 646-2285
- The POD Prize: awarded to the major considered the most outstanding in the
department. Award consists of a cash prize and a showing of work in the
Jaffe-Friede & Strauss galleries.
- Robert Read Prize: cash prize awarded to a major/majors who exhibit
exceptional work in photo or printmaking.
- Wolfenden Award: cash prize awarded to the major/majors who exhibit
exceptional work in the department.
- Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Award: a prize consisting of the selection of print
from the Hood Museum, awarded to 3 exceptional students in the department.
Resources and Contacts
Class Deans
First Year Deans
6 Parkhurst Hall
646-2681
Upperclass Deans
111 Parkhurst Hall
646-2243
Deans' Office Student Consultants (DOSC)
111 Parkhurst Hall
646-2243
Career Services
646-2215
Tucker Foundation
South Fairbanks
646-3889
Student Employment Office
Thayer Hall Basement
646-3641
Office of Undergraduate Research
646-1632
Mellon Fellowships
646-3376
Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Civic
Leadership
646-3874
Boehm Coster Internships
646-2215
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