Grants and Writing Resources for the University of New Haven
In October 2026 the University of New Haven reported outside awards for three chemical engineering undergraduates. One won a NASA Connecticut Space Grant Undergraduate Research Award for a technoeconomic study of making green ethylene from captured carbon dioxide. Another earned a fellowship from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and the National Energy Technology Laboratory to analyze simulations of gas-hydrate formations, and the third became the first New Haven student in more than a decade to receive the Society of Women Engineers Connecticut scholarship.
Summer Fellowships and National Awards
Each Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship pairs a student with a faculty mentor on a project the student designs and carries out. Seminars open and close the summer, and fellows show their results at a Research Poster Presentation Day. Six students held SURF fellowships in 2026; the Carrubba Family Endowment funded four of the projects and a faculty member's National Science Foundation grant paid for two. Past posters and abstracts are posted in the SURF collection of Digital Commons @ New Haven.
The Office of Student Fellowships and Research lists what students have won in national competitions, including a David L. Boren Scholarship for Urdu study in Lucknow, India, and a Gilman Scholarship that paid for a summer of study in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Fulbright, National Science Foundation and NOAA awards appear on the list too. Questions go to the director of undergraduate student research.
The Honors Thesis
Students in the Honors Program take a seminar in academic inquiry and writing and four other Honors courses, then finish with a year-long thesis, a research, service or creative project on a question they choose, guided by a faculty advisor. HNRS 4459, Developing an Honors Thesis Proposal, gets the work started, and the thesis carries three credits. Finished theses are bound and displayed in the Marvin K. Peterson Library.
Every student selected for the program receives a $1,000 scholarship each year. Sophomore and junior honors students may apply for one of six Hatfield Scholar Awards, judged on academic excellence, campus involvement and community service. Each award adds $3,000 and a bronze medallion presented at graduation.
Graduate Assistantships and Doctoral Research
New full-time master's students can be named to a Provost's Assistantship, which brings 75 percent tuition assistance and an hourly wage for 15 to 20 hours of work a week in an academic department. Research assistants work on faculty projects, on research of their choosing or for an administrative office tied to their field. Teaching assistants grade, prepare and teach labs, and tutor undergraduates. A separate Dean's Scholarship, awarded on academic merit, covers up to half of tuition.
Doctoral research earns outside recognition as well. A November 2025 Charger Blog profile reported that a Ph.D. candidate in engineering and applied science, who also holds a NASA Space Grant Graduate Student Fellowship, was one of six finalists for the American Chemical Society's Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science for work on recyclable and degradable polymers.
Writing Center and Thesis Archive
The Writing Center sees undergraduate and graduate students by appointment every day but Saturday, about 50 hours a week. Its tutors are students whose majors include biology, criminal justice, engineering and psychology. Students can arrive with an assignment, a set of ideas or a full draft. Tutors work on claims and evidence, introductions and conclusions, library databases and citation styles, and they show writers how to spot grammar and punctuation errors. The writer picks the focus of each session and keeps the job of editing the paper.
The Student Works section of Digital Commons @ New Haven collects master's theses by degree, doctoral dissertations in criminal justice and management systems, and health science doctoral theses. Honors theses and capstone projects are archived there as well.
Once a thesis, capstone or course paper has been drafted and revised, our editors can check it for grammar, consistency and format before you submit it. See our University of New Haven dissertation and thesis editing and University of New Haven 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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