This fund supports students engaged in research, reflection, and essay writing about significant dimensions of the human condition, the state of human culture, and community, or of the challenges faced by altruistic efforts to cultivate and enhance justice, community, and human flourishing to participate in the Undergraduate Research Center鈥檚 Summer Research Program.
About the Arnston Fellowship
This fellowship supports two students to conduct 10-weeks of faculty-mentored research through the URC Summer Research Program. It is open to all students at the College. Proposals should reflect state-of-the-art critical thinking as exemplified in the current practices and methods of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Fellows will receive:聽
- Study award of $6000
- Subsidized on-campus housing and meal plan based on financial need.聽
- Up to $400 in consumable materials (itemized budget due with application).聽
Application
Interested students should apply using the Summer Research Program Fellowship process.聽
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Recent Recipients
2023
Cleo McKenzie (Music Production, 鈥24), 鈥 Pixelated Glitter - Transfemininity in Hyperpop鈥 [mentor: Shanna Lorenz]
Runyi Ye (Diplomacy & World Affairs聽'24), 鈥 A Third Realm in China鈥 [mentor: Alexander Day]
2022
Sela Moretti-Hitchcock (Philosophy, 鈥23), 鈥淛ustifying Juvenile Justice: Good Faith Decision-Making to Protect Children's Futures鈥 [mentor: Clair Morrissey]
Matthew Vickers (Undeclared, '25), 鈥淎t the Rendezvous of Haiti: History and Revolution inthe Thought of C.L.R. James鈥 [mentor: Warren Montag]
2021
River Lisius (English & Politics, 鈥22), 鈥淔rom the Furies to Modern Advocate: Reading The Oresteia as a Tool to Condemn Violence Against Women and Call for Criminal Justice Reform鈥 [mentor: Ross Lerner]
Ava Lubetkin (Philosophy & Cognitive Science, 鈥22), 鈥淟earning from Fiction: Knowledge and Understanding鈥 [mentor: Clair Morrissey]
Patrick Walsh (Philosophy, 鈥22), 鈥淭he Path From Delusion to Moral Maturity in the Philosophy of James Baldwin鈥 [mentor: Ryan Preston-Roedder]
2020
Austin Bitterman (CSLC, 鈥22), 鈥淪urveillance Capitalism and Ideology in the Modern World鈥 [mentor: Stephen Klemm]
Michael Turner (CSLC, 鈥21), 鈥淭he Style of Time: A Comparative Reading of the Linguistic and Literary Stylistics of Herodotus' "Histories" and Homer's "lliad"鈥 [mentor: Sydney Mitsunaga-Whitten]