Grants and Writing Resources for Drew University
A neuroscience senior in Drew's class of 2027 received a $3,000 undergraduate research award from the Independent Colleges and Universities of New Jersey in October 2026. Her subject is Alzheimer's disease. She does the work through RISE, a Drew program that pairs science undergraduates with retired industry professionals in a working lab.
Lab Research With Retired Scientists
The Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti (RISE) was formally dedicated in 1986 and reports mentoring more than 350 undergraduate science students since its founding. Students work one-on-one with RISE Fellows, gain experience with mass spectrometry and high-field NMR spectrometry, and can start as early as their first year. Many turn the work into a senior honors thesis. RISE lists two annual prizes: the George deStevens Award for students researching with RISE Fellows, and the Sidney Udenfriend Prize for science students with exceptional research promise.
The Drew Summer Science Institute runs eight weeks of full-time research with a faculty mentor. Participants earn four credits, fully covered by a scholarship, and get on-campus housing. It is open to Drew students in anthropology, biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, physics, psychology and statistics.
Where Student Work Appears
Summer researchers report their results at Day of Scholars each spring. In April 2026 the posters filled the Ehinger Center, where the Action Scholars Town Hall ran alongside. Action Scholars are first-year students in a two-year civic engagement program that carries a four-year scholarship, and they presented community research there.
The Drew Review is the annual research journal for College of Liberal Arts undergraduates. A student editorial board runs it, one edition comes out each spring, and papers reach it by faculty nomination. Creative work goes to Insanity's Horse, Drew's art and literature magazine.
Honors Theses and Fellowships
Juniors with a 3.4 overall GPA are invited each spring to write for Specialized Honors. The thesis runs through two four-credit courses in the senior year. The student picks a three-member committee, one reader from a different department, and defends the work in a public session of about an hour. Two of the three votes carry it.
The dean's office for the College and the Caspersen School keeps a list of outside scholarships and fellowships, from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Truman Scholarships to NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, with faculty contacts for Fulbright, Boren and DAAD. Theological students have a separate fellowship and research grant list sorted by deadline month. It includes AAUW and Charlotte W. Newcombe dissertation fellowships. Fulbright applications and the DAAD Graduate Research Study in Germany go through the Theological School Dean.
Writing Help and Dissertation Format
The University Writing Center serves students in all three schools. Its CRLA-certified Writing Specialists help at any stage, from brainstorming and structure to revising grammar and syntax, and they read personal statements and graduate application prompts. Sessions are free.
Drew Technology's thesis and dissertation formatting guide recommends starting from a Drew dissertation template and warns that Google Docs lacks some required formatting, page numbering among it. Front matter differs between the Caspersen School and the Theological School, and the Caspersen School adds a CV at the end. Finished work goes to the library's Theses and Dissertations collection with an ETD release form; D.Litt., D.M.H., D.Min. and Ph.D. candidates also submit through ProQuest.
Before a thesis goes to the University Archives or ProQuest, our editors can give it a final check for grammar, consistency and format. See our Drew University dissertation and thesis editing and Drew 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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