Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations

September 24, 2025

• Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (academic year and senior thesis funding): Up to $250 to support Brandeis undergraduate research or creative scholarship in all disciplines, including all areas of the creative arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and interdisciplinary projects. Each student must have a Brandeis faculty mentor who will oversee their research project.

  • The fall application deadline is 5 pm ET on September 24. Applications for Provost Academic Year and Senior Thesis funding are now open.

October 2025

• Rich/Collins Community Leadership and Impact Fellowship: Mini-grants of $500-$4,000 awarded to Brandeis undergraduate students to design and implement their own local impact project in partnership with their local community.

October 2025

• Greenberg Scholar Grant Program: Grants ranging from $200 to $1,500 to be used for research-related expenses, such as essential hardware or software, digital recorders, travel or other justifiable expenses that facilitate the gathering or analysis of evidence to support a high-quality honors thesis.

October 2025

• Fisher Explorer Grants: Up to $750 (based on expenses) for Brandeis seniors pursuing projects in one or more of the three departments in the Creative Arts: Fine Arts, Music, and Theater Arts. Students majoring in Fine Arts, Music, or Theater Arts will have funding priority, but Seniors with other majors who are conducting creative arts projects are eligible to apply. 

November 2025

• Brenda Meehan Social Justice-In-Action Grant:The Brenda Meehan Social Justice-in-Action Grants will provide up to $1,000 to support events planned for the 2023-2024 academic year. Applications will be accepted until the application deadline and recipients will be notified soon after.

November 2025

• Crown Center Travel & Study Grant: Up to $5,000 grant for current Brandeis first years, sophomores, juniors, as well as current Brandeis graduate students. Seniors and graduate students in their last year may apply for grants to be used prior to graduation. Any field of study may be considered, but the research must be related to the Middle East.

November 2025

• Eli J. & Phyllis N. Segal Citizen Leadership Program: Program for Brandeis University or Heller School rising junior and seniors from any academic discipline to support travel, food, lodging, and bills related to summer work in citizen leadership.

November 2025

• Rena J. Olshansky Grant to Support Research on Jewish Family Life: Grant to support an undergraduate or graduate project deemed best able to contribute new knowledge or understanding of any aspect of Jewish family life past or present. Research is encouraged in fields as diverse as sociology, history, anthropology, religion, education, American studies, Israel or middle eastern studies, biblical studies, literature or the arts.

November 2025

• The Tauber Institute Undergraduate Research Awards: Grants up to $2,000 to rising seniors planning to conduct thesis research in any discipline related to Jewish Studies, to support travel expenses (such as visits to archives), purchase of materials (such as microfilm), and costs of data collection and processing.

November 2025

• LACLS Grant for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: Grants to support projects and initiatives that demonstrate a substantial engagement with questions of race, ethnicity, and/or immigration across Latin America, Caribbean, U.S. Latinx communities, and the Latin American diaspora around the world. Projects focused on race, ethnicity, and/or migration of a comparative and transcultural nature, connecting Latin America and the Caribbean to other regions of the world, are also welcome.

December 2025

• Jane Kahn '77 Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Up to $2500 each for up to two (2) Brandeis undergraduate students for research on current and emerging issues in criminal justice reform including the rights of individuals with mental illness, disability and socio-psychological factors frequently associated with incarceration.  Projects may be purely research-based, or may be hands-on initiatives that the students develop and implement in the community.  

December 2025

• Richard Saber Undergraduate Research Grant: Grant awarded every fall to a Brandeis undergraduate to support a research project in the field of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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• SPARK: Pilot funding for innovative projects that involve the environment, education, computer science, health care, economic solutions or social needs, designed by collaborations among Brandeis students, faculty, postdoctoral fellows or staff.

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• Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts: The Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts celebrates the abundant creativity of Brandeis students, faculty and staff, joined by distinguished guest artists. Grants from Arts Engagement are available to support original creative work by Brandeis students, staff, faculty, and alumni. Proposals for works of music, theater, performance, and visual art are all welcome. We especially encourage community-engaged proposals. Grants range from $50 to $500 and are to be used for materials and services needed for the creation of new work.

January 15, 2026

• Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (academic year and senior thesis funding): Funding open to current Brandeis undergraduates from all disciplines with a strong faculty mentor to oversee their research project, including senior theses and academic-year research.

January 2026

• The Davis Projects for Peace: The Davis Projects for Peace initiative encourages students to design grassroots projects for peace anywhere in the world that they will then implement during the summer.

February 2026

• Fisher Explorer Grants: Up to $750 (based on expenses) for Brandeis seniors pursuing projects in one or more of the three departments in the Creative Arts: Fine Arts, Music, and Theater Arts. Students majoring in Fine Arts, Music, or Theater Arts will have funding priority, but Seniors with other majors who are conducting creative arts projects are eligible to apply. 

February 2026

• Division of Science Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFs): Fellowships to support undergraduate research in Brandeis science laboratories during the summer months, including projects in any Division of Science department allocated through a single application.

February 2026

• Summer Materials Undergraduate Research Fellowships: Program for Brandeis rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors doing materials research with a commitment from a Brandeis MRSEC faculty member to serve as a mentor in the summer (although no prior lab experience is required).

March 2026

• Crown Center Travel & Study Grants: Up to $5,000 grant for current Brandeis first years, sophomores, juniors, as well as current Brandeis graduate students. Seniors and graduate students in their last year may apply for grants to be used prior to graduation. Any field of study may be considered, but the research must be related to the Middle East.

March 2026

• Gilda Slifka Internship Program: An eight-week paid summer program for undergraduate students with an interest in the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute’s mission of Jews and gender.

March 2026

• Jane's Travel and Research Grant: Grants of up to $3,500 to undergraduate Brandeis students to conduct research in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Latin American Diaspora in the United States.

TBD

Summer URCC Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Applications are closed.

• Applications are closed.

• David & Lola Swede P'89 Research Fellowship for Jewish Studies: Stipend for otherwise unpaid academic research projects on topics related to Judaism and/or the Jewish people. Apply via the URCC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship application form.

  • Applications are closed.

• Ariel Weissmann Research Fund Fellowship: Funding for students to conduct academic research under the mentorship of a Brandeis faculty member.  Focus areas for student research are Climate Justice & Sustainable Agriculture and Food System, Nutrition Lifestyle and Preventive Medicine, and Paradigm Shift in the Relationship between Humans and Nature. Apply via the URCC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship application form.

  • Applications are closed.

• Dr. John R. Hose P' 97, P'00 Research Fellowship: Funding for students pursuing research or creative collaborations alongside members of the faculty. The fellowship supports student-driven research across any and all disciplines, and seeks to further Dr. Hose’s legacy of enabling students to access opportunities that further their careers and intellectual journeys. Apply via the general URCC Summer 2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowship application.
  
  • Applications are closed.
• Fori and Robert Kay Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaboration Fund: Funding ensuring that all undergraduates can afford to participate in research and creative collaboration opportunities. Apply via the general URCC Summer 2025 Undergraduate Research Fellowship application.
  
  • Applications are closed.

March 2026

• Adventures in American Music(s) Research Fellowship: up to $5,000 per year to sponsor the research activities of a Brandeis undergraduate student majoring or minoring in music, in the research area of “Music(s) of America,” broadly construed. Undergraduate students majoring and minoring in music and in their junior year are  eligible to apply.

March 2026

• Ilene Gordon Wittels Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship in Social Psychology: Stipend to enhance research opportunities for rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors working in Psychology Labs with a focus on social or developmental topics.

March 2026

• Rapaporte Foundation Summer Internship Grants: Grants of $4,000 to support an otherwise unpaid summer internship in an organization or project that is directly connected to the academic goals of the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, for students who will be returning to Brandeis the following year and who are under financial necessity to earn summer income.

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• Frances Taylor Eizenstat '65 Undergraduate Israel Travel Grant: Grants of $2,500 each awarded to undergraduates from any Brandeis department pursuing academic or career interests in Israel

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• Dr. Jack and Diana Cohen Interdisciplinary Studies Award: provides a research stipend of $500 to a Brandeis undergraduate to support an independent interdisciplinary research project. To be eligible, student must have a confirmed Brandeis Faculty mentor and project plan. Applicants must be current Brandeis undergraduate enrolled full time at Brandeis in the spring semester that they apply.

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• Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship: Fellowship supports graduating seniors in the visual and fine arts, including art history, conservation, studio art and photography, for travel and living expenses outside the continental United States, Alaska and Hawaii. Graduating seniors must receive their undergraduate degree before the start of the fellowship year on July 1.

  • If your application is advanced to the selection committee, the final application will be due in March.

April 2026

• World of Work Fellowships: Fellowships to financially support rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have secured unpaid internships over the summer.

April 2026

• Jerome A. Schiff Undergraduate Fellowships: Funding to sophomores, juniors or seniors together with a faculty mentor to perform an innovative research or pedagogical project primarily during the upcoming academic year, although projects can start in the summer. First year students may apply, but must have strong support from their proposed mentor.

  • Applications are closed.

April 2026

• Lurie Undergraduate Fellowship for Disability Policy: Program open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors with a strong interest in disability policy.
  • Applications are closed.

April, 2026

• Eugene C. Black Internship Prize: Stipend for declared history majors and minors who are conducting a summer history-related internship.

 2026 Deadlines TBD

• The Eunice M. Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship in Classical Studies: Fellowship for the upcoming academic year allowing any classics major (and in some cases minors) to create their own research or project in conjunction with a classics studies professor.

• SPROUT: Funding for research that has the potential for commercialization, open to collaborations among Brandeis students, faculty, post-doctoral fellows, or staff.

• Brandeis-India Fellows Program: Support for current Brandeis graduate and undergraduate students conducting research, interning or volunteering with a local organization in India.

Ongoing Funding Opportunities for Grants and Fellowships

• Community Engaged Research Mini Grant: This grant provides up to $500 in funding to support the creation or execution of small-scale community-engaged research projects. Applications for the 2024-25 academic year will be accepted on a rolling basis until the funds are fully allocated.

• Anne Carter Economics Honors Research Fund: Fund to assist economics majors in their research for the Economics Senior Honors Thesis Program, to help offset data, travel, and other eligible expenses.

• Micro-Grants for Social Justice (Begins July 22 of each year): Grants to promote meaningful conversations, engagement, and critical explorations of race, Black-Jewish relations, Jews of color, and other relevant topics. May be used to support academic research, creative projects, and educational initiatives (i.e., reading groups).
• Student-Scholar Partnership Program: On-campus paid hourly research assistantships allowing any undergraduate student who shares interest in a project a current Women’s Studies Research Center (WSRC) scholar is conducting can work side-by-side the scholar as a research partner; these opportunities now posted to Workday (search for “womens studies research ctrl” under student job opportunities.
• WGS Micro Grants for Social Justice: Up to $200 microgrants to support student-led community projects and individual student initiatives for social change and racial justice.