Grants and Writing Resources for Marquette University
Four Marquette Law students took first place at the 2026 Tax Executives Institute International Tax Student Case Competition in Montreal, the Law School reported in August. They prevailed over teams from Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Romania and the United States. Teams had three hours to analyze a complex international tax problem before presenting recommendations to the judges. Earlier that year, in February, a doctoral student in biological sciences won the Graduate School's Three Minute Thesis competition and its $500 grand prize.
Summer Research and Poster Sessions
For summer 2026 the Honors Program offered 20 Summer Research Fellowships of $3,500 each. Students in Core or Disciplinary Honors propose a project with a faculty mentor, and the project can run on campus or elsewhere. The money is paid in lump sums and can go to materials, travel or rent. Winners present at the Honors Program Research and Creative Project Fair in the fall.
Biological Sciences runs a ten-week Undergraduate Summer Research Program with a $4,500 stipend funded through faculty research grants, ending in a poster session and symposium. In February 2026 the A&S Celebration of Research was held in the Alumni Memorial Union ballrooms, with posters by undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff of Arts and Sciences and the College of Education. Students applying for national awards can book an appointment with Fellowships@MU in Sensenbrenner Hall.
Where Student Writing Appears
Creative writing students produce the Marquette Literary Review, a competitive magazine for writers with a Marquette connection, including students, staff, faculty and alumni. Marquette students can apply to join its editorial staff.
The English department's undergraduate research page lists where majors have presented, from the Marquette Undergraduate Humanities Conference to the annual meetings of the International Writing Centers Association and Sigma Tau Delta. It also lists Honors English senior theses by year with their faculty mentors. Sample course papers are archived in e-Publications@Marquette.
Graduate Fellowships and Travel
Departments nominate students for the Graduate School's distinguished fellowships. In the 2027-28 nomination cycle, the Rev. John P. Raynor, S.J. Fellowship supports two doctoral students completing their dissertations, with a stipend of about $25,000 plus a tuition scholarship for continuation course fees. The Cyril E. Smith Trust Smith Family Fellowship pays about $21,000 to humanities doctoral students whose research requires travel, with roughly five fellows a year: two in history and one each in English, philosophy and theology. STEM PhD students who have passed the doctoral qualifying exam can be nominated for the Richard W. Jobling Distinguished Research Assistantship, with up to three awards a year of up to $24,500 plus tuition credits.
The Arthur J. Schmitt Leadership Fellowship frees doctoral students from teaching and research assistant duties for an academic year, with a ten-month stipend of about $23,000 in the 2027-28 cycle. Conference costs go through the Graduate Student Research Travel Award, capped at $500 for an in-person conference and $200 for a virtual one. A student can receive up to $1,000 per fiscal year.
Writing Help and the Dissertation Directives
The Norman H. Ott Memorial Writing Center, in Raynor Memorial Library 240, offers free 30- to 60-minute appointments onsite or online. Its peer tutors work with undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni, and they help with theses, dissertations and manuscripts for publication. Graduate students with a thesis or dissertation under way can sign up for WrAP, a semester of weekly or every-other-week check-ins with a trained peer tutor. Its Accountability Plus level runs 60 minutes and adds feedback on drafts.
Marquette's dissertation directives (April 2024 version) make the student and the doctoral committee responsible for the accuracy of the content, and say they should proofread and edit the dissertation for syntax, grammar, spelling, punctuation and references. The Graduate School reserves the right to reject dissertations that contain errors. Final files go to ProQuest, where the Graduate School checks formatting against the directives, and authors can choose an embargo of six months, one year, two years or a custom period. Publishing in e-Publications@Marquette, done through a DocuSign form, carries no fee; the repository's dissertation collection dates to 1934.
Marquette leaves the proofreading of a dissertation to the student and the committee, and our editors can support that step with a final edit for grammar, consistency and format. See our Marquette University dissertation and thesis editing and Marquette 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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