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CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship
Fellowship Details
- Award Amount:
- $4000
- Eligibility:
- Graduate Students currently enrolled in a University of Idaho program
- Duration:
- Late Spring - Summer (10 Weeks)
- Application Period:
- January 15 - March 15
Description
The CDIL Graduate Student Summer Fellowship Program provides a stipend for a student currently enrolled in a university graduate program to work on the development of CDIL-related digital projects, be they projects related to CDIL connected faculty or that of the graduate student's own creation.
Call for Applications
The Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning invites graduate students from any discipline at the University of Idaho to apply for a CDIL Graduate Fellowship and work work with CDIL staff on a project of their design/choosing and/or on ongoing projects in the CDIL.
This fellowship offers $4,000 to support graduate students in developing innovative digital scholarship projects during a 10-week summer program. Note that most fellows continue to work with CDIL staff over the course of the following year as well.
About CDIL
The Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) supports innovative digital scholarship across the University of Idaho campus. CDIL collaborates with faculty, students, and staff to develop digital projects that advance research, teaching, and learning.
For more information about CDIL and their fellowship programs, visit https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/fellowships/.
How to Apply
To apply for the CDIL Graduate Student Fellowship, please fill out our application form, which will be available on this page from January 15 to March 15 each year.
Graduate students are encouraged to discuss their project ideas with CDIL staff and potential faculty mentors before submitting an application. Email us at cdil@uidaho.edu.
For more information and to begin the application process, visit: https://cdil.lib.uidaho.edu/fellowships/gradfellow.html
Application Criteria
Applications are evaluated based on:
- Innovation and feasibility of the proposed digital project
- Student’s preparation and relevant experience
- Clear project timeline and deliverables for the 10-week period
- Potential impact and contribution to digital scholarship
- Alignment with CDIL’s mission and capabilities
- Quality of faculty mentorship and support
Past Projects
CTRL+Shift
2017 • English
Data-driven exploration of oral history interviews with 11 prominent contemporary American poets
Historical Japanese Comparative Ceramics Collection (HJCCC)
2018 • Culture, Society and Justice
Digital collection that identifies and describes Japanese ceramics manufactured during the Meiji and Taisho eras
Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium
2019 • English
In past years CDIL has co-hosted a week-long Palouse Digital Scholarship Symposium with Washington State University's Center for Digital Scholarshi...
Storying Extinction
2020 • English
Storying Extinction: Responding to the Loss of North Idaho’s Mountain Caribou is a multidisciplinary digital humanities project that represents com...
Vandal Poem of the Day
2021 • English
Favazzo helped garner two additional presses' participation in the Vandal Poem of the Day project, Alice James Books and Four Way Books.
The Chestnut Collective
2023 • Earth & Spatial Sciences
A sociocultural and sociopolitical research project tracking the blight and subsequent loss of the American Chestnut on Appalachian families and co...
Wolf Reintroduction
2023 • English
A multimodal essay exploring various dimensions surrounding the wolf controversy: a coalescence of regional viewpoints and events stemming from the...
Western and Clark's Grebe Breeding Lakes of North America
2023 • Fish & Wildlife Sciences
A summary of Western and Clark’s Grebe breeding data at state, provincial, and regional scales in North America
Tender Spaces
2024 • English
A multi-lingual, multimodal essay on Gaëtane Buttigieg's life, art, and forced institutionalization in the 1970s.
Sedimentation
2025 • English
Sedimentation is a multimodal project which seeks to recognize, represent, and story the central role silt plays within the Colorado River ecosyste...