Grants and Writing Resources for Duquesne University
Duquesne's Nasuti College of Osteopathic Medicine welcomed its first class in 2024, and by March 2026 its students were taking research prizes. At that month's Graduate Research Symposium, four of them received the Gumberg Library Award for Graduate Research and a fifth won the School of Nursing's Award for Graduate Research, according to the 2026 award winners list.
Symposiums and Summer Labs
The 2026 Undergraduate Research & Scholarship Symposium met April 8 in the Power Center's Charles Dougherty Ballroom, with a matching online session. Any undergraduate who submits a valid abstract gets a poster slot. Talks are scarcer: a peer committee reviews abstracts anonymously and picks 15-minute oral presentations. Presenters are eligible for cash awards, and oral presenters and award winners may submit a paper to the Duquesne Scholarship Collection.
Graduate students present at the Graduate Research Symposium, whose 2026 poster session was held March 19. Campus centers, schools and departments sponsor its awards. In 2026 the Office of the Provost gave three Provost's Awards for Outstanding Scholarship, and the History Department's Clio Awards went to history and public history students.
Summer work pays. The School of Science and Engineering's 10-week Undergraduate Research Program gave Duquesne science and engineering undergraduates a $4,500 stipend in 2026, plus free campus housing and a meal plan if needed. Its NIH neuroscience track, open to undergraduates from any institution, paid a $6,000 stipend in 2026. Both end at an on-campus research symposium.
English Department Prizes and :Lexicon
The English department runs two writing scholarship competitions. The Frances J. Chivers Scholarship Competition asks for an interpretive essay of 5 to 10 pages, written for a Duquesne English course and already graded and commented on by the instructor. The Carroll Creative Writing Scholarship Competition takes 5 to 10 pages of creative work. The O'Donnell Scholarship funds a summer research project, which the recipient presents at a department symposium. The department also pays for undergraduate and graduate students to present their scholarship at conferences.
:Lexicon is Duquesne's student-run journal of arts and literature. It prints poetry, prose, drama, music and visual art, takes submissions each semester, and holds a release party where contributors present their work.
Graduate Funding and Dissertation Prizes
Doctoral students in the Ph.D. in English are guaranteed four years of funding through teaching fellowships that cover tuition, certain fees and a stipend, provided they make satisfactory progress. Two merit-based dissertation fellowships go to fifth-year students who have an approved proposal and are in the early stages of the dissertation. Recipients aim to finish within the award year and present the work in a colloquium. The department also funds conference attendance and summer research travel, and its students regularly win the university's Distinguished Dissertation Prize.
The John G. Rangos Sr. Prizes for Students and Faculty fund proposals for new or enhanced classes, course materials and academic programs. Students can apply alone or in teams, and finalists present at a forum judged by faculty, student leaders and community leaders.
Writing Center and ETD Filing
The Writing Center in 216 College Hall meets writers in person or on Zoom for 30, 60 or 90 minutes, and a full draft isn't required. Graduate consultants who specialize in ESL, science and business writing can be booked directly. The center describes its work as teaching. Consultants ask questions that guide revision and help writers find and fix sentence-level errors.
Duquesne has required graduate students to publish an electronic thesis or dissertation to graduate since July 1, 2003. After the defense, the student files an Approval Form signed by the chair or advisor and the school's ETD representative, then submits to the Duquesne Scholarship Collection and to ProQuest. Gumberg Library reviews each submission against the university's guidelines, and its ETD Coordinator sends back required revisions. The library supplies a formatting template, and the student is solely responsible for the final content.
If a Chivers essay or an ETD needs a last check for grammar, consistency and format before it goes in, our editors can do that work. See our Duquesne University dissertation and thesis editing and Duquesne 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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