In addition, the Minority Affairs Committee, a permanent subcommittee of the Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, deals specifically with minority access issues in the Graduate School. The Duke Endowment Fellowship is a competitive award offered by the Graduate School to new matriculants to Ph.D. programs. Applicants are nominated by the department and selected by a faculty committee and the Dean of the Graduate School. The fellowship provides funding for four years. Service in the form of a research or teaching assistantship may be required, especially in the third or fourth year.
Fellows are eligible to compete for dissertation support in the fifth year.
The GEM Fellowship includes a summer internship component which is designed to give the fellows practical experience in their chosen fields at the research laboratories of GEM employer members. Funding for GEM Fellows is dependent on admission and a financial award from a member university. The deadline for fellowship application is December 1. Application information is available in the Graduate School Office of Student Affairs and Minority Programs. The National Physical Science Consortium offers a graduate fellowship program for women and minorities in the physical sciences.