The Cook Center will offer a variety of seed grants, fellowships, working groups, and other activities designed to engage scholars, students, and community partners in advancing its mission. Please check this page regularly for updates on new opportunities as they become available.
Seed Grants
Seed grants will be offered to support interdisciplinary, multi-career-stage research teams involving faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students. Seed grant proposals will be solicited across the Center’s core pillars. These awards will catalyze research that advances actionable knowledge and strengthens Duke’s capacity to partner with communities across the Carolinas and beyond.
- Community-Engaged Research Grants: Housing and Economic Well-Being Focus - The Cook Center on Social Equity and the Duke Center for Community-Engaged Scholarship invite proposals for community-engaged research on housing and economic well-being in Durham and the surrounding region. Deadline is April 3, 2026.
Mentoring and Training Fellows Programs
A cornerstone of the Cook Center’s mission is cultivating a pipeline of scholars and practitioners who understand the complex forces undergirding social systems through a set of multi-level fellowships for faculty, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, post-baccalaureates, and undergraduate researchers.
- Calls for applications will be announced in spring 2026.