Grants and Writing Resources for Emory University

In July 2026 Emory announced that 14 of its students and alumni had been selected for Fulbright grants: 13 recent graduates of Emory College of Arts and Sciences and one doctoral candidate in the Laney Graduate School. Eight hold research grants, among them projects on postpartum depression in India and seizure prediction for children with epilepsy in Germany, and five will teach English abroad. One selectee turned down the Fulbright to accept an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Grants for Undergraduate Research

Emory College's Undergraduate Research Programs fund student projects and conference trips. Independent Research Grants pay up to $1,000 for a project in the United States and up to $2,500 for one abroad. The money covers travel to research sites, lodging, project supplies, participant payments and books the library lacks, and a faculty mentor has to endorse the proposal. Conference Presentation Grants cover registration, travel and lodging once a paper, poster or panel has been accepted: up to $750 for a U.S. conference and up to $1,500 for one abroad. Each grant can be won once.

First-time researchers can join SIRE, a year as a research assistant on a faculty project that ends with a talk, poster or performance at the Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium in April. The Summer Undergraduate Research Experience is ten weeks of full-time independent research with a stipend and free housing on the Clairmont Campus, closing with the summer symposium.

Prizes and Student Publications

The Creative Writing Program runs writing contests for students enrolled at Emory and Oxford College. The Artistine Mann Awards cover poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and playwriting. Undergraduates can also enter for the Agnes Nixon and Kiki McCabe Prize for Screenwriting. The Academy of American Poets Prize is the one contest open to graduate students as well.

Student writing appears in the Lullwater Review, a national literary review, and in Alloy Literary Magazine, the Emory Wheel and the digital magazine Diverge, all on the program's list of student publications.

Fellowships and Graduate Funding

Laney doctoral students can apply for up to $2,500 in Professional Development Support funds for training, research and conference travel. Larger requests for training and research go to a committee review.

Advanced students compete for a set of fellowships run with campus partners, including the Fox Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship, SIRE fellowships for graduate students in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, and a fellowship with the Emory Writing Center. Some are limited to one program, such as the Perry Dissertation Completion Fellowship in French. Pre-candidacy students can look to the Halle Institute's Graduate Global Research Fellows Program, which offered up to twelve grants of up to $5,000 in its 2025 cycle, and Laney's Grant Writing Program keeps an archive of funded proposals for anyone drafting an application.

Help With Writing and Dissertations

The Emory Writing Center in Woodruff Library offers free one-on-one appointments to students in Emory College, the Laney Graduate School and the nursing and medical imaging program. Graduate writers can book up to two sessions a week on course papers, dissertation chapters, articles and grant proposals, workshop a publication with a developmental editor, and sign up for dissertation boot camps co-hosted with the library. A weekly writing group, run with Laney's English Language Support Program, opens with an hour of quiet writing.

Finished theses and dissertations go to the Emory Theses and Dissertations Repository, which holds Laney, Rollins, Candler and nursing theses and dissertations along with Emory College honors papers. The Laney handbook makes the repository copy the official archival record, and the degree completion page supplies the formatting guidelines and templates.

For a last check on grammar, consistency and format before an Emory paper, thesis or dissertation goes in, our editors can help. Visit our Emory University dissertation and thesis editing and Emory University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.

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