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Projects for Peace Alumni

DEADLINE:
Applications due: Monday, January 16th, 2023 at 11:59pm ET via CARAT

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The Projects for Peace Alumni Award seeks to recognize individuals who demonstrate innovation and persistence in building peace and transforming conflict. Projects for Peace is a global program that partners with educational institutions to identify and support young peacebuilders and changemakers. The program encourages young adults to develop innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Along the way, these student leaders increase their knowledge, improve skills, and begin to see themselves as agents of change. Since 2007, Projects for Peace has worked with approximately 115 colleges and universities to support almost 2000 projects.

Each year, the Projects for Peace Alumni Award will award up to $50,000 to support the continuing peacebuilding efforts of past Projects for Peace grantees. The Award is made possible through the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation at Middlebury.... Read more about Projects for Peace Alumni

Projects for Peace

DEADLINE:
Applications due: Friday January 19th, 2024 at 11:59pm ET via CARAT

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The Projects for Peace program is hosted by Middlebury College. According to their website, “Every year 100 or more student leaders are awarded a grant in the amount of $10,000 each to implement a ‘Project for Peace,’ anywhere in the world, typically over summer break. Projects for Peace are grassroots activities that address root causes of conflict and promote peace.”... Read more about Projects for Peace

Yun Family Research Fellows Fund for Revolutionary Thinking

DEADLINE:
Academic Year 2023-24: NOVEMBER  27, 2023, 11:59PM ET (New deadline!)

PROGRAM INFORMATION
The Yun Family Research Fellows Fund for Revolutionary Thinking is designed to support undergraduate scholars of talent and promise who want to explore the theory and practice of tackling the world’s problems through bold, innovative, and novel research projects of their own design.

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URAF Conference Funding

DEADLINE:
Applications are accepted via CARAT on a rolling basis.

Overview
The URAF conference funding program supports Harvard College undergraduate students in presenting their original, independent research (poster or paper) at an academic conference. Awards are available year-round with a rolling deadline to apply for funding. Undergraduate students from all concentrations are encouraged to apply.... Read more about URAF Conference Funding

Udall Scholarship

DEADLINE:
Applications due: Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 11:59pm via CARAT

GENERAL INFORMATION:
Each year, the Udall Foundation awards 55 scholarships of up to $7000 each and 50 honorable mentions to sophomore and junior level college students committed to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care.... Read more about Udall Scholarship

Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science (SPUDS)

 

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DEADLINE: Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 11:59pm

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science (SPUDS) is a ten-week summer program, co-sponsored by Harvard College and the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI), that aims to provide a formative and substantive data science research experience and to promote community, creativity, and scholarship amongst Harvard College students.... Read more about Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science (SPUDS)

Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE)


 

DEADLINE:
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 11:59pm

We are unable to notify applicants of their selection status before decisions are released from URAF.

PLEASE NOTE: As of Summer 2024, PRISE requires an evaluation form in lieu of a traditional recommendation letter. The evaluation form can be found on the PRISE application instructions (linked below).

BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
The Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE) is a 10-week summer program that aims to build community and stimulate creativity among Harvard undergraduate researchers in the life, physical/natural, engineering and applied sciences.... Read more about Program for Research in Science and Engineering (PRISE)

Herchel Smith Undergraduate Science Research Program

DEADLINE: Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 11:59pm ET via CARAT

General Description

Herchel Smith is a competitive and generous award supporting undergraduate scientists conducting a substantive, independent summer research project in mathematics, engineering, life, physical/natural or computer sciences.  The Herchel Smith program intends to engage students who likely are graduate-school bound in a merit-based process, to give them an experience not unlike graduate students, from defining an independent project to presentation (and, ultimately in many cases, publication) with disciplinary rigor and intellectual depth.The project can be based anywhere in the world, but must be affiliated with a university, lab, or research enterprise and be at least 10-weeks in duration with a full-time in commitment, and employ a high degree of autonomy and input by the applicant in its design and execution (although the project may be a part of, and feed into, a larger ongoing research project supervised by a faculty PI or research host).

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