Karbank Philosophy Fellowship
The Karbank Fellowship assists students in pursuing their philosophical reflections in any structured activity, study, or hands-on experience that would significantly enrich the student’s philosophical understanding of self and world. From filming a backpacking adventure along the Lost Coast of Northern California to riding with EMTS in Atlanta to joining an international philosophy and linguistics conference in Tübingen, Germany, recipients of the Karbank Philosophy Fellowship prize have explored a wide range of real-world philosophical interests in their summer research fellowships. Although the Karbank Fellowship is especially receptive to projects pertaining to environmental issues, the Fellowships are not limited to projects related to those issues. While holding an internship or working at a nonprofit organization are obvious ways to achieve this aim, the evaluation committee will also consider proposals that involve such things as taking a relevant course that cannot be taken at BU, or pursuing in one way or another a relevant branch of study.
Successful applicants will receive up to $5,000: $1,000 of this amount is a grant recognizing the awardee’s achievement and up to $4,000 is for budgeted expenses. Preference is given to philosophy majors and minors, and to returning students over graduating ones, but any student who will have taken two philosophy courses by the end of the Spring semester is eligible for the Karbank Fellowship.
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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
UROP facilitates undergraduate participation in faculty-mentored research projects. UROP offers a wide variety of programming and funding types to facilitate research projects in every academic department across the university. Undergraduate students looking to engage in other research at BU should consider applying to the UROP program.