On-Campus Research Opportunities
There are many opportunities available to you at Georgetown University through various departments, programs, and initiatives. The list below includes many of these research opportunities but is not exhaustive. For more information about any of the below opportunities, please contact the relevant administrator.
Department of Performing Arts Summer Creative Research Awards
Georgetown’s Department of Performing Arts (DPA) offers grants to current undergraduate students to support research, scholarship, and professional development. The DPA Summer Creative Research Award covers costs for student-led interdisciplinary research, fieldwork, approved internships, workshops, conferences, festivals, and other projects related to thesis or capstone projects. The DPA Summer Creative Research Award helps students with basic living expenses, transportation, accommodation, travel, and other reasonable costs associated with their projects, making these experiences accessible to all students regardless of their financial situation. While preference is given to American Musical Culture and Theater and Performance Studies majors, the awards are open to all Georgetown undergraduate students. Visit this link to learn more about the DPA Summer Creative Research Awards.
Royden B. Davis Fellowship
The Royden B. Davis Fellowship, named after Fr. Davis, Dean of Georgetown College from 1966 to 1989, offers summer fellowships which provide between $1,500 and $3,000 in summer support, depending upon the length of the proposed research/experience and the project budget (including the existence of other sources of funding).
You may find more information on the Davis Fellowship here.
Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellows
The School of Foreign Service and the Mortara Center for International Studies jointly invite engaged and motivated freshmen to take part in the university’s newest research initiative. A select group of the finest students in the School of Foreign Service will have the opportunity to partner with professors as research-assistants and co-authors on complex research projects throughout their undergraduate career. Please contact mortaracenter@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Figge Fellows
The John & Pat Figge Woodstock Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship gives several Georgetown undergraduates an opportunity to do “theological reflection on the human problems of today.” Figge Fellows are selected through a competitive process, with a goal of bringing together students from a variety of majors and religious traditions who display a high level of academic aptitude and a strong interest in how theological reflection can be applied to current issues. Please contact Kim Daniels with any questions.
The Education and Social Justice Project: International Summer Research Fellowships
The Education and Social Justice Project provides select students with summer research fellowships to travel abroad for in-depth examinations of innovative initiatives, with a focus on the work of Jesuit secondary and post-secondary institutions. Under faculty supervision, the students gather information through interviews, analyze best practices, and share their reports and conclusions with a wider global audience. Please contact csjresearch@georgetown.edu with any questions.
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service Program
Through the CyberCorps™ Scholarship for Service Program, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has partnered with Georgetown University provide scholarships to students to earn degrees critical for cybersecurity in exchange for service in the form of employment in a governmental cybersecurity position. This national program is designed to educate the individuals who will design and protect the nation’s critical information infrastructure, define the policies, and write the laws that govern and protect this infrastructure, and educate the nation’s future generations of cybersecurity professionals. Please contact cyberfellows@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Tocqueville Forum: “On the Roots of American Democracy”
The Tocqueville Student Fellows Program enables Georgetown undergraduate students that are strongly interested in the Tocqueville Forum more deeply to explore the themes and questions at the heart of the American democracy. Membership is selective, and admission reflects an accomplishment. Student Fellows will be given many opportunities to learn about America’s founding principles and their roots in the Western tradition. Please contact tocquevilleforum@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Beeck Center’s GU Impacts Fellowship Program
GU Impacts Fellows participate in an eight-month fellowship centered on a 10-12 week summer project with cutting-edge organizations and social enterprises in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Please contact beeckcenter@georgetown.edu with any questions.
French Department’s John Carroll Summer Internship Program in Saint-Omer, France
The John Carroll Summer Internship Program supports students interning at local museums, government offices, tourist destinations, national parks, and multinational corporations based in Saint-Omer while living with local families. Please contact Professor Farima Mostowfi with any questions
gui2de Student Experiences
gui2de offers internships for both undergraduate and graduate students with a focus on economics and development. Students are placed in locations where gui2de has current research projects, such as East Africa and India. Please contact gui2de@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Global Business Experience: Undergraduate Program
The Global Business Experience (GBE) is a globally-oriented course and international consulting project offered as an elective to undergraduates in the MSB and to select students in the SFS. GBE consists of an intensive course and international consulting project, for which student teams travel abroad to consult with fortune 500 or industry-specific companies. Please contact Dr. Ricardo Ernst, Global Logistics Research Program Co-Director, with any questions.
Center for Social Justice Alternative Breaks Program
The Alternative Breaks Program (ABP) offers student-led, social justice-oriented trips over spring break throughout the U.S. and abroad. Every program facilitates student interaction and emphasizes the need for students to learn firsthand about social justice issues. Please contact altbreaks@georgetown.edu with any questions.
100 Projects for Peace
100 Projects for Peace is an initiative for undergraduate students at Georgetown to design their own grassroots peace projects anywhere in the world. The CSJ awards one student or a team of two students $10,000 to implement their peace project. Please contact Kyra Hanlon, Assistant Director, Immersion Programs, with any questions.
Green Commons Awards
The Green Common Awards are designed to support actionable proposals that spark campus dialogue or spur change(s) on campus on environmental and sustainability issues. Please contact ecoawards@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Georgetown Social Innovation and Public Service Fund
The Social Innovation and Public Service (SIPS) Fund provides funding and support for projects that serve the public good domestically and internationally. SIPS funds undergraduates and alumni. Please contact sipsfund@georgetown.edu with any questions.
BSFS Summer Awards
The BSFS Summer Awards provides undergraduate students who have secured unpaid/minimum wage or very low-paid professional development experiences with summer funding assistance (unpaid internships, thesis or capstone research, non-GU language training, study abroad, service-learning or volunteering, other academic or professional development opportunities).
Security Studies Program Summer Research Grant
The SSP Summer Grant is offered to Security Studies Program students who seek funding for domestic or international summer research, language immersion, and domestic or international internships. Please contact securitystudies@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Global Health Practical Experience Abroad
The Department of Global Health sends the majority of their undergraduate students to conduct research abroad. Undergraduates spend their fall semester abroad during their senior year in countries such as Ghana, Tanzania, Mexico, Brazil, India, and Australia. Please contact Assistant Dean Bryan Floyd with any questions.
Biology Department Scholarships, Grants, and Fellowships
The Department of Biology offers the Zukowski-Kolleng Undergraduate Research Fellowships are open to Biology majors who are currently in their sophomore, junior and senior years and will provide a research award of $2,500 and up to a $1,000 living allowance. Please contact Dr. Shweta Bansal with any questions.
BSFS Circumnavigator Grant
The Circumnavigators Club Foundation and the SFS sponsor a student for a 90-day summer research trip. One member of the SFS junior class is awarded a $9,000 Raymond Dinsmore Fellowship to undertake an around-the-world research project to explore an international problem or issue to generally contribute to our understanding of world conditions. Please contact your respective dean with any questions.
Center for Latin American Studies: International Internship/Travel Research Grants
The Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) funds research and international internships in Latin America. The program strives to complement students’ academic experiences during the school year by financially supporting students’ research and professional development. Please contact CLAS@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Provost Undergraduate Research Presentation Awards (PURPAs)
PURPAs provides funds for undergraduates who want to extend their undergraduate research efforts beyond the Georgetown campus in either traditional or innovative ways, in the form of conference presentations, publications, or performances. Please contact provost@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute
The fully funded, week-long Political Science Predoctoral Summer Institute from Georgetown University’s Department of Government is for juniors and seniors from historically underrepresented communities majoring in political science and planning to apply to graduate school.
The program is intended to help students develop their research skills and begin working on their applications with the help of faculty and graduate student mentors.
More application details to be released early spring semester. Please contact csjresearch@georgetown.edu with any questions.
Diversity in Cancer Research Undergraduate Internship Program
The 10-week, full time Diversity in Cancer Research Internship Program is open to rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors with an interest in STEM, Cancer, and/or Biomedical Research. Applicants from backgrounds underrepresented in biomedical research are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Send application materials and additional questions to cancerresearchtraining@georgetown.edu
U.S.-China Student-to-Student Dialogue
The U.S.-China Student-to-Student Dialogue is an exchange program designed to promote dialogue on critical issues in the U.S.-China relationship between students at Georgetown University and various Chinese universities. From spring 2021 through spring 2023 participants met virtually as part of semester-long cohorts. The expanded 2023-2024 program involves both virtual dialogues and in-person meetings. Learn more about the U.S.-China Student-to-Student Dialogue here .