Deadline: Rolling through April 21, 2021
The Duke University Office of the Provost is offering a broad set of opportunities to support Ph.D. students during Summer 2021. In the tables below you will find a list of experiential fellowships with external partner organizations; and a list of internship opportunities with Duke units.
Keep in mind that enrolled Ph.D. students can also propose a summer internship that they arrange themselves through the Graduate Student Training Enhancement Grants (GSTEG) program. (Update: The GSTEG deadline was March 22.)
Provost Experiential Fellowships
A limited number of experiential fellowships with external organizations are available by application. The partner organizations will offer three-month summer internship experiences for Ph.D. students. Interested students should search the opportunities to match both skills/background and research interests.
Host organizations will consider applications on a rolling basis through April 21. Ph.D. students may apply to only two (2) positions (this could be two experiential fellowships, or one fellowship and one of the Duke internships in the section below); please apply separately for each.
Questions for all external experiential fellowships should be directed to Maria Wisdom, Director of Graduate Student Advising and Engagement.
See the FAQ for the Summer 2021 Provost experiential fellowships for Duke Ph.D. students.
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted through a Duke portal: Apply for an experiential fellowship
You will be asked to submit the following:
- a letter of application
- a brief CV (2 page maximum)
- a letter of support from the department DGS, indicating how the proposed virtual/remote internship will enhance your intellectual trajectory
Browse, search or sort alphabetically by any column. Click on the link in the Fellowship Focus column to access more information.
| Organization | Fellowship Focus | Brief Scope of Work |
|---|---|---|
| American Historical Association | FILLED: Data Collection, Teaching Resources and Other Projects | Work on projects such as collecting data on history PhDs and making teaching resources available for instructors. Update Where Historians Work website, assist in cleaning and creating data web-scraping sources, analyze survey results, vet and update Remote Teaching Resources |
| Durham Technical CC Creative & Liberal Arts | FILLED: Curriculum Diversification for British Lit I & II | Diversify curriculum for important gen ed courses (British Lit) to be inclusive of groups that are left out of the Western canon. Will connect with faculty and resources involved in similar projects, research work from underrepresented communities in British Lit, create course content to be accessed by future instructors. |
| Durham Technical CC Creative & Liberal Arts | Equity Gaps in Student Success Rates | Support selection and adaptation of an intervention to address equity gaps in student success rates. Will review the literature to find promising interventions, work with community college instructors to adapt the intervention so it can be piloted in a first-year composition class. |
| Durham Technical CC Creative & Liberal Arts | FILLED: Health Humanities | Infuse health humanities content and pedagogical best practices into cluster of community college core courses; review literature and work with Durham Tech team |
| Modern Language Association | FILLED: MLA Programs | Help organize, market and run a two-week professional development seminar, Why Humanities Now; help design, develop and market a toolkit of resources; help organize materials for Summer Teaching Institutes |
| Museum of Durham History | Oral Histories from Durham Community Members | Expand online oral history program; conduct interviews with community members, archive story submissions, create materials for marketing oral history program |
| National Humanities Alliance | FILLED: Campus Outreach and Engagement | Lead outreach efforts to minority-serving and access-oriented institutions for Humanities for All and Study the Humanities initiatives; conduct research and outreach concerning humanities recruitment efforts and publicly engaged teaching and scholarship at minority-serving and access-oriented institutions |
| National Humanities Center | Pandemic Experiences of Healthcare and University Systems | Assist with development of curricular materials, student mentoring, metadata management, interview transcription, research into funding opportunities, creation of promotional and publicity materials, administrative outreach |
| NC Department of Justice | FILLED: Consumer Protection Division | 3 possible projects: Explore ways to improve disclosures consumers receive from companies and make consumer choices more informed; explore ways to use technological tools to obtain information that would help identify matters where consumers are being harmed and may need protection; determine optimal options for allocating money obtained in a multistate settlement |
| Society of Biblical Literature | FILLED: Bible Odyssey | Conduct user research for BibleOdyssey.org; design and conduct focus groups and surveys to understand behavior and interests among discrete categories of users |
| RTI International | Alternative Energy Options | Shape new book series, including developing topics and content for three or more volumes, identifying state of the art research, and networking with related experts |
| RTI International | Behavioral and Physiological Markers of Health | Collect, extract and analyze data to support an ongoing systematic review; contribute to manuscripts synthesizing data extracted from the review efforts |
| RTI International | Climate Change Economic Impacts | Quantify economic impact of climate change; estimate increased incidence of inland flooding and its economic impact on infrastructure; develop data and modeling resources that can provide improved estimates of increased environmental damage to infrastructure in the US with climate change; develop spatially explicit economic characterizations of buildings and infrastructure |
| RTI International | Climate Solutions Impact | Examine role of natural climate solutions in 2020 and 2021 NDC submissions; identify magnitude of anticipated emission reductions from these activities; review and synthesize LULUCF components of country's NDC submissions, generate estimates of magnitude of emissions reductions from mitigation actions, collaborate with a project team to conduct economic analyses of mitigation commitments, assist with report writing and manuscript development |
| RTI International | FILLED: East Africa Energy Program Impact | Design and conduct a most significant change study of the influence the program has had on the enabling environment around grid-based energy sector in Kenya |
| RTI International | Economic Impact Modeling | Develop framework to estimate the economic impacts, at a sectoral level, from interventions in the on- and off-grid sectors; assist in development of a survey instrument, data curation and compilation, drafting literature review, visualization and summarization of modeling outputs, inputs to a draft manuscript |
| RTI International | Energy Modeling | Develop computer programs to manage and visualize data and simulate electricity system behavior; contribute to original research article(s) |
| RTI International | Fossil Fuel and Electricity Characterization | Characterize fossil fuel and electricity use in residential and commercial buildings and/or industrial processes; identify electrification technology options; develop data and modeling resources to characterize temporal and spatial distribution of economy-wide costs, environmental benefits and electricity system investments required to support large-scale electrification |
| RTI International | FILLED: Governance and Youth Economic Opportunities | Conduct social network analysis research on international development projects |
| RTI International | Innovation Advisors | Conduct tasks related to market research and commercialization of new technologies |
| RTI International | Substance Use, Gender, and Applied Research Program | Assist across national and international projects in South Africa that seek to reduce substance use, HIV, risk behaviors, gender violence and stigma; promote treatment effectiveness and compliance; and enhance family and community support in addressing substance use and related gender issues in underserved populations in community-based settings |
Provost Internships at Duke
This is a list of Duke internship and research assistant opportunities offered by units across campus. Ph.D. students should search for opportunities that match both their skills/background and research interests. You may apply to only two (2) positions (this could be two internships, or one internship and one of the experiential fellowships in the section above); please apply separately for each. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis through April 21.
See the FAQ for the Summer 2021 Provost internships for Duke Ph.D. students.
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted through a Duke portal: Apply for an internship
You will be asked to provide the following:
- a letter of application
- a brief CV (2 page maximum)
- a letter of support from the department DGS, indicating how the proposed virtual/remote internship will enhance your intellectual trajectory
Browse, search or sort alphabetically by any column. Click on the link in the Internship Focus column to access with more information.
| Duke Unit | Internship Focus | Brief Scope of Work |
|---|---|---|
| Center for Cognitive Neuroscience | Impact Neuroscience Program Pilot | Participate in pilot program focused on supporting career development of grad students in neuroscience and improving the broader culture of science. Will submit poster/recorded talk at the end of the summer based on the methods training engaged in over the summer, produce commentary on and recommendations for the the initiative. |
| Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute | Community Engagement Research Initiative | Develop and implement plan to assess quality of community engagement with partners |
| Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute | FILLED: Democratizing Health and Social/Environmental Data | Contribute to 2 projects focusing on democratizing health and social/environmental data: assist with phenotyping health conditions and curating social and environmental health data; explore health literacy and information accessibility; learn about social and environmental influences on health |
| Duke Forest | FILLED: Field Evaluation of Road Underpasses for Wildlife Habitat Connectivity | Develop rapid assessment protocol for wildlife passage in consultation with local experts and with consideration of existing protocols; implement rapid assessment protocol at priority locations; evaluate viability of passage within the network and recommendations for improving passage at each location |
| Duke Forest | FILLED: Socioeconomic Analysis of Landscape Habitat Connectivity | Conduct spatial and quantitative analysis of socioeconomic data as it relates to Eno-New Hope landscape; conduct spatial and qualitative analysis of most pressing local-government political drivers across region; investigate where landscape habitat connectivity may have related benefits for ecosystem services, public health, and climate resilience |
| Duke Global Health Institute | Textbook Preparation | Assist Eric Green to prepare materials for his open access textbook on global health research methods |
| Duke University Libraries | FILLED: Exhibition on Latinx History at Duke | Synthesize research conducted by students in Spring 2021 Latinx Social Movements course; conduct original archival research to supplement exhibition; work on exhibition services (copyright and bibliographic research, editing exhibit copy, assisting with graphic and exhibit design, utilizing digital humanities tools to expand online presence) |
| Duke University Press | Data Security Toolkit Creation | Create branded, easy-to-engage template for clients; collect existing security documentation and information from internal and external sources; synthesize data security documentation to be provided to prospective organizations as part of their services contracting process |
| Duke University Press | FILLED: Journal Platform Creation | Create scholarly journal content sites, including site review and QA, and digital content loading (XML) to the sites. Will learn business data flows and tools involved in creating full journal content sites |
| Franklin Humanities Institute | FILLED: Digital Publics | Activate humanities content from the FHI’s extensive video and essay collections for growing online audiences of cultural, social and historical analysis |
| Global Health and Cultural Anthropology | FILLED: Health Humanities Workshop and Curriculum | Build health humanities content and pedagogical "best practices" seminars. Lead and execute all aspects of research and course development; create six modules on a different aspect of health humanities |
| Graduate Liberal Studies Program | FILLED: Benchmarking Research Project | Assist in completing a benchmarking research project to facilitate transformative educational experiences in graduate-level liberal arts study. Main duties include data cleaning, follow-up, contextual research, analysis |
| Graduate Program in Literature | FILLED: Summer Graduate Intern | Enhance and develop resources to help grad students understand programmatic requirements and procedures, and discover opportunities for research and professional development; update Student Handbook, Sakai website with guides; develop guide to research |
| Marine Lab | FILLED: C-CoAST Community Engagement | Work with C-CoAST network on engagement activities designed to integrate researcher, practitioner and stakeholder expertise across the spectrum of coastal interests, culminating in coproduction of a research agenda that supports coastal communities |
| Marine Lab | FILLED: Community Science Initiative (CSI) | Support CSI’s civic engagement work and engage with the local coastal communities of NC; projects include STEM Pathways; Training for Resiliency and Race-Equity; K-12 curriculum program evaluation, modification and teacher support; citizen science data collection and analyses |
| Marine Lab | FILLED: Fisheries Consortium of Eastern NC | Help create Fisheries Consortium of Eastern NC to facilitate intersciplinary collaboration; produce consortium website; form interest/focus groups, host meetings and surveys; develop framework for consortium meetings |
| Nasher Museum of Art | Virtual Exhibition Development | Assist with creating virtual exhibitions. Experience with HTML/CSS/JavaScript is essential. May participate in videography, graphicdesign, marketing, exhibition design and visual resource management |
| NC Leadership Forum, Provost’s Office and Sanford School of Public Policy | Academic Research Agenda Development | Review and synthesize academic literature related to underlying theories that ground NCLF program; develop scoping paper that discusses potential lines of research for future projects; participate in planning and execution of ongoing NCLF programs; possibly assist with next steps for NCLF core program |
| Office of Undergraduate Education | Academic Resource Center | Assist and lead the design, implementation and evaluation of ARC research and assessment activities to determine efficacy of services and programs |
| Office of Undergraduate Education | FILLED: Duke LIFE | Research best/peer practices for summer bridge programs for incoming 1GLIs |
| Office of Undergraduate Education | OUE Research | Support data management, documentation and analysis; literature search and review; report and manuscript preparation; and future research planning |
| Office of Undergraduate Education | OUE and Student Affairs Campus Climate Committee | Support literature-review subcommittee and interview (focus group, survey, and in-person interview) subcommittee of the CCC |
| Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library | FILLED: Digital Archival Expeditions | Work on development of active learning sessions and assignments for Duke undergrad courses with group of fellows. Will hold office hours to support development of each project, serve as a peer mentor for fellows, organize trial teaching for fellows to test their modules, coordinate project development workshops for fellows, review and provide regular feedback to fellows on work |
| Sociology | FILLED: Refugee Integration Curriculum Development | Develop 5 projects for Health and Immigration class (Fall 2021), involving analyzing, grounding and application of World Relief Durham data/methods |
| Social Science Research Institute | FILLED: Informing Social Change and Anti-Racism Initiatives through Applied Research and Evaluation | Provide critical engagement in SSRI's university- and community-partnered efforts; contribute to a community-engaged evaluation research study in partnership with a social-change youth orchestral program that works with Triangle-area Title 1 schools, interview-based data collection and analysis; develop evaluation design for emerging Duke anti-racism initiatives |
| Social Science Research Institute | Theory, Concept, and Development of Programming to Dismantle Racial Hierarchies | Facilitate design, development, piloting and refinement of intervention/program activities and materials; identify optimal delivery modes for highest impact, from perspective of historical and scientific accuracy as well as effectiveness of delivery |
| Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine | FILLED: Evolution-based K-12 Lesson Plan Development | Develop evolution-based K-12 lesson plans for Darwin Day Roadshow. Responsibilities include conceptualizing lessons, aligning lesson plans with NC Standards, developing comprehensive teacher resources for lesson plans (presentations, worksheets, suggestions for further student exploration). Will develop at least one lesson plan and modify/update existing lesson plans |