Grants and Writing Resources for Case Western Reserve University
Judges at the Spring 2026 session of Intersections, Case Western Reserve's undergraduate poster symposium, gave awards to 18 student projects in six categories, from arts and humanities to physical sciences and mathematics. Two months earlier the university's fifth annual Three Minute Thesis competition ended in a tie for first place between two Ph.D. students. Each took home $2,000.
Presenting Research
Intersections runs three times a year, in April, in July or August, and in December, at the Veale Convocation, Recreation, and Athletic Center. Undergraduates bring faculty-mentored research and creative work, from engineering and the life sciences to the arts and humanities, and the sessions are open to visitors. Students headed to an outside conference can ask the Undergraduate Research Office's Travel Fund for up to $700 toward registration, transportation, lodging and printing. The award comes once per undergraduate career. Recipients then present at an upcoming Intersections.
Graduate Travel and Research Money
Full-time students in School of Graduate Studies programs who are presenting a paper or poster can apply for the Graduate Student Travel Award, worth up to $600 once a year. The same office runs the Verhosek Fund, which reimburses up to $400 once per graduate career for conference travel, workshops, research materials, journal subscriptions or professional memberships; part-time degree students qualify too. Arts and Sciences students at either level can seek a Phi Beta Kappa Research Grant of a few hundred dollars for a defined piece of a project.
In the humanities, the Baker-Nord Institute lists Flash Grants, Graduate Research Grants and a Graduate Affiliates Program for graduate students. Three Minute Thesis contestants get three minutes and a single slide to explain their work to non-specialists, and the 2026 prizes ranged from $350 People's Choice awards to $2,000 for first place.
Writing Prizes
The Writing Program judges its Academic Inquiry Seminar prizes every year and recognizes winners each spring. The Karl Lemmerman Prize for First-Year Writing goes to analytical essays. Two Holden AIQS Writing Prizes cover narrative or creative work, from poems to scripts, and multimodal projects that combine visual, audio, oral or digital forms. Essays reach the judges by nomination, and students can nominate their own work.
Students in humanities departments have the Baker-Nord Institute's Undergraduate Humanities Prize, $500 for an exceptional capstone project or senior paper in fields that include English, history, philosophy and religious studies. The same page lists an Undergraduate Research Award of up to $500 for thesis costs a department won't cover, such as travel to collections.
Writing Resource Center
The Writing Resource Center works out of Bellflower Hall, with satellite locations on the first floor of Kelvin Smith Library and in the Café on the Quad. Its consultants see undergraduates on course assignments and graduate students on theses and dissertations, along with postdocs, faculty and staff, in person or online. The center also runs workshops and student and faculty writing groups.
Journals and Dissertations
Discussions, the undergraduate research journal of Case Western Reserve, is peer-reviewed and produced by undergraduate students, who take articles in many disciplines from undergraduate authors around the world. It has reached its 22nd volume. Graduate students upload their final theses and dissertations to OhioLINK, and the ETD guidelines require every doctoral dissertation to be published through ProQuest, which OhioLINK handles for the university.
Our editors work with Case Western Reserve writers at the final-draft stage, from seminar papers to dissertations. See our Case Western Reserve University dissertation and thesis editing and Case Western Reserve 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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