The Howard Hughes Biology Forum, Howard Hughes Chemistry Forum, and Howard Hughes Neurosciences Forum were created to encourage undergraduate participation in independent research projects in the biological, chemical, and neural sciences. In addition, each Hughes Fellow will participate in a special half-credit seminar and symposium in the spring semester, in which they will present and discuss various aspects of their research projects. The structure of the proposal is fashioned much in the same way as those submitted by faculty members to granting institutions, such as the National Science Foundation. The research must also be supervised by a Duke faculty member.
Faculty are welcome to sponsor more than one applicant in a given year.
Although only biological, chemical, biomedical, or neuroscience research will be considered, the student does not need to be a major in these particular subjects, nor must the faculty mentor be in the Botany, Zoology, Neurobiology, Chemistry or Psychology Departments. A panel of faculty will select the Howard Hughes Fellows. This is to due to the fact that we are constrained to complete the review process well in advance of the spring term pre-registration period. Applicants will be notified by email of the status of the application no later than 29 October 2000. No plastic report covers, please.