Department of Chemistry
Fellowships and Research Opportunities
Students majoring in chemistry are eligible for the following fellowships and prizes:
The Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows is the College's flagship academic enrichment program, rewarding creativity, initiative and intellectual curiosity with competitive grants to support self-directed undergraduate research and scholarship anywhere in the world. Requiring a GPA of 3.6 or better, membership in the Society is offered to students who achieve distinction among the school's top scholars. Grants are highly competitive and awarded by the Junior Fellows Advisory Council.
Hodson Science Scholarships fund student-faculty collaborative summer research in the natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The competitive fellowships are awarded to incoming freshmen who carry a GPA of 3.8 - 4.0 and SAT scores of 1200 - 1600. Fellows may elect to use their stipends between their sophomore and junior or their junior and senior years, provided they have declared a qualifying major and will undertake a research assignment in that discipline. Individual projects are overseen by members of the faculty of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
The Summer Science Research Program funds research projects in the natural sciences, mathematics and computer science during a 10-week summer session. Poster presentations of the results are given in the summer and frequently during the academic year at national and regional meetings of scientific societies and organizations. The Summer Science Research Program is administered by the faculty of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.