You must have Acrobat Reader in order use the PDF format. Students selected to be Hughes Forum Fellows participate in a special seminar and symposium in the spring semester in which they present and discuss their research projects. Portions of the seminar will be devoted to preparing and defending a written research proposal on either the work the student is doing or on future directions the work could take. Spring 2001 and is supervised by a Duke faculty member.
Faculty are welcome to sponsor more than one applicant in any given year.
Students need not major in these particular subjects, nor must the research be conducted in the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Neurobiology or Psychology. A panel of faculty will select the Howard Hughes Fellows. Together, sections 2 and 3 should not exceed one page in length. No plastic report covers, please. A clear statement of the central problem or question and the student's role in addressing it.