Dean's Summer Fellowship
About the Dean’s Summer Fellows
The Dean’s Summer Fellowship Program provides an opportunity for University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences undergraduate students to conduct summer research in any academic discipline under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Faculty mentors present students for consideration of this cash award and those students accepting the fellowship receive $1500 (full summer) or $750 (half summer), deposited into their student account for expenses related to their research. Mentors submit fellowship applications for their students by March 1 of each year. Funds for this fellowship are provided by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Dean’s Fund for Excellence.
Experiential Learning in the College of Arts and Sciences
Most students don’t come to college thinking they’ll present research at a national conference. However, in November five University of Dayton undergraduate students presented as a panel at the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) conference in Chicago, discussing their research for English department Chair Andy Slade’s upcoming book about masculinity in the films of Joel and Ethan Coen, Be a Man and Other Bad Advice.
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University of Dayton junior Katie Gross was struck by an experience she had at an exhibit that featured stories from Dayton community members, along with their portraits. Influenced by not only their words, but also their images, she wondered if science could prove the impact of photographs on human perception. Working with a faculty mentor, she developed a study to determine whether including a photo with a narrative influences the way people see another person and process their story.
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Katie Parker has spent most of her four years at the University of Dayton searching for a chemical to minimize the effects of brain cancer.
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