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These º¬Ðß²ÝÑо¿ÊÒ grants support academic-year undergraduate research and travel in all disciplines. Awards are up to $800 and students may receive up to one mini-grant per semester. There are three separate awards but students do not need to indicate the specific mini-grant(s) for which they would like to be considered: 

• The Davis Fund exists "to encourage undergraduate interest in international affairs." 
• The Koelln Fund exists "...to encourage broad, essentially humanistic inquiry," particularly which is interdisciplinary in nature. 
• The Roberts Fund exists "...for the purpose of helping some underprivileged scholar do research in any field." Please note that student fellowships defines 'underprivileged' as students currently receiving financial aid and that these funds are earmarked for senior honors research. 

Applications are considered monthly and are due on the 15th of every month. 

An award to support student research, regardless of discipline, that will substantially enhance students’ honors projects or research being conducted under the mentorship of a faculty member. Awards can also be used to defray the expenses of materials. Awards may be used in conjunction with other funding. Typically, awards do not exceed $2000 and approximately 15 awards are made each year. 

Awards from this fund support: 

• student travel that will substantially enhance students’ honors projects or research being conducted under the mentorship of a faculty member (e.g., travel to library/archive or to another location to conduct research, or travel to a conference to present results), or 
• students’ research expenses such as purchasing of books and equipment, publishing research results, or any combination of these expenses.