American Studies also subsidizes travel to research collections with modest grants. Each year, graduate students across the university compete for Purdue Research Foundation Summer Grants to conduct research or to prepare for exams, and this year, four American Studies students received such support. The majority of American Studies students take full advantage of the academic support they find for their work. Academic advisors make time to discuss students' interests and current research and to guide students to pertinent scholarship or archival collections. Faculty advisors read student papers, make recommendations for revision, and encourage students to submit particularly promising works of original research for publication in appropriate journals.
Students provide valuable support and information networks for each other.