Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations

February 5

• 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.

February 8 (Deadline Extension)

• Brenda Meehan Social Justice-in-Action Grants: Up to $1,500 grant for research/project supplies to create an event to bring together academic and activist perspectives on public policy issues, such as healthcare, immigration, harassment, criminal justice reform, and climate change. Applications due by 9:00 PM ET.

Feburary 15

• 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 27

• 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.

Former Deadlines

Previous Deadline January 12, 2023

• 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.

Previous Deadline January 20, 2023

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Previous Deadline January 31, 2023

• 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 prior to the start of the fellowship year on July 1. If your application is advanced to the selection committee, the final application will be due March 6, 2023.

March 1

• 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

March 2

• 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.

March 3

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

March 6

• 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 9

• Provost Undergraduate Research Fund (summer funding): Funding open to students from all disciplines with a strong faculty mentor to oversee their research project, including senior theses, academic-year research, summer work, or conference presentations (including remote ones). Applications due by 5 PM ET.
• Phoebe Rothman Giddon Brandeis Alumna Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Up to $5,000 awarded to Brandeis undergraduate students who have or are currently taking at least one course in the Brandeis Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) Department and who, with the assistance and advice of a University Faculty member, propose to research health issues as they intersect with women’s, gender, and sexuality concerns. Applications due by 5 PM ET.
• 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. Applications due by 5 PM ET.

March 10

• 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 31

• 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.

April 1

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

April 2

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

April 3

• 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.

April 4

• 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 due by 5:00 PM ET

2023 Deadlines TBD

• 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.

• 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.

• Rena J. Olshansky Grant to Support Research on Jewish Family Life: Up to $500 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.
• 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).

• 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.

• Remis Summer Study Grants in Fine Art and Music: Fund for summer research and project supplies for first-year, sophomore, and junior students with an interest in or commitment to the fine arts, including students not majoring in those fields.

Ongoing Funding Opportunities for Grants and Fellowships

• 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.

• Arts Engagement BIPOC Creator Grants: Grants for undergraduate students in any course of study whose creative work amplifies the voices of BIPOC people. Funds can be used to procure resources such as equipment, materials, studio time, lessons, workshops and so forth for creative arts disciplines such as (but not limited to) music, photography, curating, filmmaking, design, poetry, spoken word, etc.
• 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 ctr” 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.

September 30, 2022

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Maurice J. and Fay B. Karpf and Ari Hahn Peace Awards: Up to $3,000 awarded to Brandeis undergraduate and graduate students who wish to work on peace, conflict resolution, and coexistence projects. Note: Applications due by 9:00 AM ET on October 3.

• HBI Undergraduate Grant in Jewish Gender Studies: Up to $500 will be awarded each fall to a Brandeis undergraduate to support a research project in the field of Jewish Gender Studies.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 5, 2022

• Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts: Grants to members of the Brandeis community to produce new works of performing and visual art.

December 15 , 2022

• Jane Kahn '77 Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Fellowship for current Brandeis undergraduates whose 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.

December 18, 2022

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

December 31, 2022

• 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.