Studying social sciences at Boston College means many opportunities for funding, including the Boren and James Madison fellowships.
Goldwater and the National Science Foundation scholarships are just some of the names attached to esteemed math and science opportunities.
Extend your expertise between semesters with extensive Summer Fellowships.
Advanced Study Grants promote scholarly initiatives by supporting student-designed projects.
Conference Travel Grants support students presenting original research at academic or professional conferences worldwide.
Assistive technology for the physically challenged, linguistics,
social justice through art, international and immigration studies—the
2015 Advanced Study Grant projects run the investigative gamut.
In 1997, the University created the undergraduate research fellowship program to support student involvement in faculty research projects. This past summer, 171 rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors were engaged in studies conducted in 16 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences. A sampling follows.
Grace Lisius ’16 and Gabrielle David, visiting assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, are studying riparian vegetation as part of a project by Noah Snyder, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, to assess effects of the 2008 removal of the Merrimack Village Dam. Here, they record plant diversity within a one-by-one-meter frame on the banks of the Souhegan River in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
Assistant professor of mathematics John Baldwin, Cynthia Chen ’17, Champ Davis ’17, and Andrew Araghi ’16 study certain aspects of Khovanov homology, which, is a powerful knot invariant that has received a tremendous amount of interest for its surprising connections between seemingly disparate mathematical fields. The students’ responsibilities include, writing a computer program to compute a certain ‘module structure’ on Khovanov homology.
Emily Vasiliou ’16 worked with associate professor of political science Jonathan Laurence on his book comparing the institutional development of Ottoman Islam and Roman Catholicism. “I did a lot of research on the Ottoman Empire, the influence of the Islamic state, and recent protests in the Middle East, as well as on current Middle Eastern leaders,” said Vasiliou.
Some grants take their researchers overseas, like John Sege's works in Pantasma, Nicargua, investigating solutions to providing clean, easy access to drinking water.
