Grants and Writing Resources for Boston College
Eleven Boston College students won Fulbright grants for 2025-26, out of 62 who applied, and BC News reported in February 2026 that the university remains one of the country's top Fulbright producers. Their placements ran from Austria and Taiwan to Cameroon, Brazil and Vietnam. Two months later a psychology junior on the pre-med track won a Truman Scholarship, one of 55 chosen from 781 candidates nationwide.
Undergraduate Research Grants
Advanced Study Grants pay for projects that students design. A faculty member nominates the student, who then writes a three-page proposal with a budget. There are versions for summer research, for the performing, literary and visual arts, for language study, and for preliminary work on a senior thesis or Scholar of the College project. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Advanced Study Grants, funded by BC's MLK Committee, back summer projects in civil rights, equal rights and economic and social justice.
Students who want to work on a professor's project come in through the Undergraduate Research Fellowship, which pays them as research assistants. Conference Travel Grants cover up to half the cost of presenting original research, to a $500 maximum, once per academic year. The Amanda V. Houston Traveling Fellowship gives up to $3,000 for research focused on African or African Diaspora communities, with two awards a year.
Fellowships for Graduate Students
The Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy runs two student fellowships. Doctoral Fellows in the social sciences, humanities and professional schools meet in a weekly seminar and write for the Clough Center Journal and its spring symposium; the 2026 call listed a $6,000 stipend. Junior Fellows, who are undergraduates, received $3,000 and could apply for research and conference money. The center also runs a Graduate Fellows Program with a summer stipend for research and writing, plus writing workshops.
The African and African Diaspora Studies program offers the nine-month AADS Dissertation Fellowship to ABD scholars in the social sciences and humanities. For 2026-27 it paid $37,500, with a $1,500 research budget and a $3,000 moving allowance. Fellows live in residence, give one research talk and teach one seminar for extra pay.
Where Student Research Appears
Twenty undergraduates founded Elements in 2004, and it remains BC's only undergraduate research journal. It comes out twice a year. The student staff judge each submission on its scholarship and readability, and faculty sometimes help with the evaluation.
Graduate students present at the Graduate Research Symposium, sponsored by the School of Social Work, the Connell School of Nursing, the Lynch School and the Morrissey graduate school. The third symposium, in March 2026, drew 67 master's and doctoral students to Corcoran Commons for oral and poster sessions.
Writing Help and Dissertation Deposit
The English Department's BC Writing Center, in Stokes 418S, gives undergraduates 50-minute, one-to-one sessions with trained undergraduate consultants who have completed a three-credit course in writing pedagogy. It takes writing from any discipline, along with creative and professional work. Graduate students are asked to email the center. The Connors Family Learning Center offers free tutoring in more than 60 courses, writing and English as a Second Language among them, to undergraduates and graduate students.
Morrissey doctoral candidates follow the graduate school's dissertation checklist. Dissertations are submitted online only, through the ProQuest ETD Administrator, using the school's template. The checklist sets 1.25-inch side margins, 1-inch top and bottom margins, double-spaced text and a 10-point minimum font. Any citation style is accepted if it is used consistently. Under the library's ETD policy, each dissertation goes to ProQuest and to BC's open access repository, with embargoes of up to two years, or five with school approval.
A fellowship proposal, senior thesis or dissertation headed for ProQuest can come to us for a final edit covering grammar, consistency and the margins and pagination BC requires. See our Boston College dissertation and thesis editing and Boston College essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.
From Our Writing Guides
Compiled by James Peterson Brown, PhD, Managing Editor of Editors For Students. Links checked October 2026.
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