Supports original creative work by Brandeis students, staff and faculty for the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Proposals for works of music, theater, performance and visual art are welcome, and interdisciplinary proposals are especially encouraged.
Administering Unit: Division of Creative Arts.
Amount: $50 to $500.
More Information: Bernstein Festival website.
Contact: Ingrid Schorr.
Provides funding for student- and faculty-initiated projects that address issues of identity, pluralism and unity in the Brandeis community.
Administering Unit: Brandeis Pluralism Alliance.
Amount: Up to $500.
More Information: BPA website.
Contact: Mark Brimhall-Vargas.
Covers research expenses such as travel; room and board; and photocopying, and may be used to fund study at a foreign institution or cover tuition fees for a relevant Middle Eastern language program.
Administering Unit: Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
Amount: Up to $3,000.
More Information: Crown Center website.
Contact: Kristina Cherniahivsky.
Encourages students to design grassroots projects for peace that they themselves will implement anywhere in the world.
Administering Unit: Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies.
Amount: Up to $10,000.
More Information: PAX website.
Contact: Professor Gordon Fellman.
Provides funding for undergraduates to travel to Israel to learn Hebrew; intern in social justice projects, NGOs, Israeli companies and laboratories; participate in research projects from archaeology to contemporary issues; engage in professional training; or join academic programs such as Brandeis study abroad.
Administering Unit: Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
Amount: $2,500.
Contact: Keren Goodblatt.
Supports academic and artistic projects in Jewish gender studies.
Administering Unit: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.
Amount: Up to $500.
Contact: Deborah Olins.
Provides funding for students to conduct research in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latin American Diaspora in the United States.
Administering Unit: Latin American and Latino Studies.
Amount: Up to $3,500.
Contact: Mangok Bol.
Given annually to students who wish to work toward coexistence and peaceful ways of addressing and resolving conflicts of many sorts. Supports such projects as art works and essays on peace; travel grants for participation in a peace project or conference in the U.S. or abroad; and seed money for peace-related projects.
Administering Unit: Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies.
Amount: $100 to $3,000.
Contact: Professor Gordon Fellman.
Funds four fellows to work toward completion of a classics research or creative project, in conjunction with a classicist faculty mentor. Classics majors or in some cases minors are eligible.
Administering Unit: Classical Studies.
Amount: $750.
Supports a student's research or creative scholarship during the summer or academic semester, and provides funding for undergraduates to present their work at professional conferences.
Administering Unit: School of Arts and Sciences.
Contact: Margaret Lynch.
Supports students who undertake an otherwise unpaid summer internship at an organization or project that serves the interests of women, girls or gender equity.
Administering Unit: Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Amount: $2,000.
Provides funding for Brandeis sophomores, juniors and seniors in good academic standing to perform an innovative research or pedagogical project under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
Administering Unit: School of Arts and Sciences.
More information: Arts and Sciences website.
Contact: Margaret Lynch.
Supports and encourages emerging leaders to engage in a lifetime of citizen service and serves as a platform to promote citizen leadership.
Administering Unit: Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management.
Contact: Susanna Flug-Silva.
Provides undergraduate students a unique learning experience by allowing them to work side-by-side with a scholar or faculty member in an interdisciplinary environment.
Administering Unit: Women's Studies Research Center.
Amount: $12/hour for up to 50 hours.
Contact: Kristen Mullin.
Supports undergraduate students who pursue unpaid summer internships. The competitive program aims to reduce financial obstacles that might preclude students from following their interests, exploring career fields, gaining new skills or experiencing the "world of work."
Administering Unit: Hiatt Career Center.
Amount: Varies.
Email: hiattcenter@brandeis.edu.