Undergraduate Grants Program

The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) at the University of California Berkeley, announces the availability of grants of $200 to $1,000 to fund undergraduates for research or creative projects that address issues of race and gender. Topics should be consonant with the CRG’s mandate to promote increased understanding of race and gender and their intersections in a wide variety of social, cultural, and institutional contexts, especially on the Berkeley campus and its neighboring communities, but also in California, the nation, or the world. Projects may be oriented toward academic research or may approach race and gender issues from the perspectives of the media, fine arts, and performing arts. These grants are designed to provide Berkeley undergraduates with an opportunity to explore questions of interest to them via media of their choosing.

ELIGIBILITY: Applications can be submitted by any Berkeley undergraduate not graduating at the end of the semester. Applications are particularly sought from students majoring in areas where race and gender issues have not previously been of major concern, such as Public Health, Education, Economics, Business, Journalism, Political Science, and Environmental Science, as well as areas where they have been more central.

GRANT PERIOD AND USE OF FUNDS: Grants will be awarded for a period of six months from the start date. Funds may be used for direct costs related to the proposed project, such as travel to archival or ethnographic research sites; supplies and services, and equipment rental. Funds may not be used for equipment purchase, stipend, living expenses, conference attendance, or educational travel. Grant payments will be in the form of reimbursements for expenses.

GRANTEE REPORTING: Grant recipients will be responsible for submitting a brief midterm report of their progress along with the faculty mentor’s evaluation of the project’s progress to date. Grant recipients are required to submit a final report within two weeks of the end of the grant period containing: 1) an itemized expense report; 2) a statement of what was accomplished; and 3) the faculty mentor’s evaluation of the project. Grant recipients will be asked to present their projects at a CRG Forum and their project description will appear in the Center’s newsletter “Faultlines.”

APPLICATION DEADLINES: Two funding cycles. Fall 2008 deadline, October 8th, by 3:00 p.m., Spring 2009 deadline, March (Beginning of, exact date TBA), by 3:00 p.m. Awards will be announced within two weeks of the deadline.

INQUIRIES : Direct inquires to centerrg@berkeley.edu