Purpose
This competitive fellowship aims to improve student research skills and support dissertation-related research through faculty mentoring. Faculty mentors are expected to assist students with research leading to the development of a doctoral dissertation.
Eligibility
- Continuing PhD students of demonstrated potential
- Entering their second through sixth year of study
- U.S. citizens, permanent residents, or AB 540
- May be in any graduate academic program
- Former fellowship recipients may be nominated for an additional year of support
- Indicate an interest in an academic career in research and teaching
and meet one or more of the following criteria:
- Experience of situations or conditions that impeded advancing to graduate study, such as the absence of a family member who attended college; matriculation at a school with poor financial or curricular support; having a disability; having worked long hours while attending school; or
- Academic research interests focusing on cultural, societal, or educational problems as they affect educationally disadvantaged segments of society; or
- Evidence of an intention to use the doctoral degree toward serving educationally under-represented segments of society.
Programs are encouraged to nominate underrepresented minorities, students with physical challenges, and individuals from cultural, linguistic, geographic and socio-economic backgrounds who are underrepresented in graduate student and faculty populations.
Required Nomination Documents/Information
- Statement of Interest (5 MB limit, PDF file)
- Formatted CV (5 MB limit, PDF file in CV template format)
- Unofficial UCSF Transcript (5 MB limit, PDF file)
- Faculty Letter (5 MB limit, PDF file)
- PI/Advisor Name
Support
- Two awards
- $10,000 stipend divided equally over a twelve month period, September-August
- Resident tuition and fees
Awardees
2024-2025
Kevin Delgado-Cunningham – Biophysics
Alex Lee – Biological and Medical Informatics
2023-2024
Sheyda Aboii – Medical Anthropology
Sirena Gutierrez – Epidemiology and Translational Science
Learn more about how this and other internal fellowships are awarded.
