Grants and Writing Resources for Campbell University
On March 29, 2026, four Campbell Law students won the national American Association for Justice Student Trial Advocacy Competition in New Orleans, beating a team from UCLA School of Law in the final round. One of the four took the Best Advocate Award for that final. The team had qualified three weeks earlier by winning the regional tournament in Columbia, South Carolina.
The Academic Symposium
Wiggins Memorial Library runs the annual Academic Symposium. The 16th edition, on March 24 and 25, 2026, had 185 student presenters from 35 disciplines. Oral, art and poster presentations filled the first day, and music performances took the second afternoon.
Undergraduate and graduate work compete in separate categories for oral talks, posters and online video, and art has a separate category. An entry scored in the top 10 percent of its category wins High Merit; the top 25 percent wins Merit. Winners get a prize seal for their certificate and are listed in Accolades. Thirty-three entries won in 2026, and graduate students from the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences took five of the Merit Awards.
Summer Research Fellows
The Ester H. Howard Student Research Fellows Program is an eight-week summer program for Campbell undergraduates working on a project with a faculty mentor. Each student fellow receives $2,500. Mentors on nine-, ten- or eleven-month contracts receive $2,000. Priority goes to full-time students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, and the program seeks fellows from diverse disciplines.
An application is a cover page signed by the mentor and the department chair, plus a proposal of no more than five double-spaced pages with sections for purpose, project narrative and budget. Howard Student Research Fellows present their work at the Academic Symposium the following spring. The stipends come from an endowment left by the late alumna Ester Howard, and one 2026 fellow, a pharmaceutical sciences student, tested whether anthocyanins could lower platelet activity.
Where Student Writing Appears
The Lyricist is Campbell's annual literary magazine, made by a student staff with a faculty advisor. It prints poetry and prose. A writer can send up to three poems, or up to three stories of 3,500 words or fewer. Students on the staff can enroll in ENGL 412 in the spring for one to three credit hours. The Pine Burr yearbook, also student-produced, has won Best in Show for yearbooks at the North Carolina College Media Association Awards.
Law students run the Campbell Law Review, which began publication in 1979, aims for at least two issues a year and holds an annual symposium. Membership is by invitation. The Campbell Law Observer, an online student publication, reports on recent state and federal court opinions.
Writing Coaches and Honors Theses
The Campbell Writing Center is in Room 303 of Wiggins Library. Undergraduate writing coaches take any writing project at any stage, from brainstorming to a polished final draft, in person or virtually, and students book sessions through CU Succeed. The library also assigns a librarian liaison to each department to support student and faculty research.
The Honors Program in the College of Arts & Sciences takes 25 credit hours to complete. An approved independent thesis project can count toward its six hours of honors electives.
Scholarships for Graduate and Law Students
Graduate and professional students apply for endowment scholarships through their school. Five schools take applications: Pharmacy & Health Sciences, the Divinity School, Education & Human Sciences, Law, and Osteopathic Medicine.
In 2026 the School of Law gave four full-tuition Competitive Scholarships to incoming students chosen for academic achievement, leadership, service and professional promise. Each award carries a separate name. Two of them are the Cheshire Schneider Advocacy Scholarship and the Janette Soles Nelson Public Service Scholarship.
A symposium paper, law review note or graduate thesis can come to our editors for a final edit of grammar, consistency and format before it goes out. See our Campbell University dissertation and thesis editing and Campbell University 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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