Grants & Funding @ ND
Many Institutes and Centers at Notre Dame offer grant funds to support an array of undergraduate scholarly engagement activities. For a breakdown of grants by activity type, please click here.
- Center for Career Development
- Center for Social Concerns
- Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC)
- College of Science (COS)
- Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE)
- Glynn Family Honors Program
- Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI)
- Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (ISLA-UROP)
- Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
- Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
- Nanovic Institute for European Studies
- Naughton Fellowship Program
- ND Energy
- NDnano
- Office of Student Enrichment
Center for Career Development - Undergraduate Career Services
Center for Social Concerns
Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures (CSLC)
College of Science
Open to students enrolled in the College of Science (COS)
- Travel Grants for Undergraduate Researchers
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (COS-SURF)
- Clare Boothe Luce Program
- Da Vinci Summer Grant for Interdisciplinary Research
- Scientia Charles Edison Foundation Fellowship
- Center for Rare and Neglected Disease Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (CRND-SURF)
- Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Summer Undergraduate Research Program (CTSI-SURP)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research Program
- MD Anderson Cancer Center Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement (CUSE)
Open to all undergraduate students
- Conference Presentation Grants
- Conference Attendance Grants
- Independent Research Grants
- Creative Endeavor Grants
- Scholarly Immersion & Discernment Grants
- Unpaid Internship & Research Assistantship Grants
- Roberts Endowment for Research in East Asia
- Eagan Summer Fellowship
- Grogan Summer Fellowship
- ACC Meeting of the Minds Conference
Glynn Family Honors Program
Open to current first-years, sophomores, and juniors in the Glynn Family Honors Program. All Glynn students should consider the Glynn program as their primary source of funding for summer research.
- Arts & Letters - Conference Presentation Grant (CPG)
- Arts & Letters - Research & Materials Grant (R&MG)
- Arts & Letters - Senior Thesis Grant (STG)
- College of Science - Summer Research Grants
Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI)
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (ISLA-UROP)
Academic year and summer grants for students majoring or minoring in a department in the College of Arts & Letters
- UROP Conference Presentation Grants (CPG)
- UROP Research & Materials Grants (R&MG)
- UROP Senior Thesis Grants (STG)
- UROP Comprehensive Summer Grants
- UROP American Dream Summer Grant
- UROP Da Vinci Summer Grant for Interdisciplinary Research
- UROP Diana M. Sciola Grant for Research in Italy
- UROP Social Justice in the Marketplace Grant
- UROP ISLA/History Museum Summer Internship
- UROP ISLA Summer Internship at the Snite
- UROP United Youth Theatre Internship
Kellogg Institute for International Studies
- Kellogg/Kroc Undergraduate Research Grants
- Summer Entrepreneurial Internship
- Experiencing the World (ETW) Fellowships
Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
- Break Travel & Research Grants for Sophomores and Juniors
- Senior Travel & Research Grants
- FYS Spring Break Travel & Research Grants
- Summer Travel & Research Grants
- European Internship & Service Grants
- Pushkin Grant for Advanced Language Training in Russian
- Language Club Support Grants
Naughton Fellowship Program
ND Energy
- Slatt Fellowship for Undergraduate Research in Energy Systems and Processes
- Forgash Fellowship for Solar Energy Research
NDnano Undergraduate Research Fellowship (NURF) Program
Each year, NDnano awards several undergraduate summer research fellowships. More than 20 projects in nanotechnology are available to choose from, and the program is open to current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors.
Office of Student Enrichment
Available to students with demonstrated financial need.