Greater Good Science Center Fellowships

Fellowships are awarded to research proposals that respond to one or more of the following themes:
The biological underpinnings of prosocial emotion
The context and cultivation of social well-being
Compassion, health, and community
Visit the GGSC Fellows Page (greatergood.berkeley.edu/about/fellowships/) for more information about the program, application process, as well as current and former fellows.

Application materials for the Hornaday Graduate Student Fellowship and the Goldberg Undergraduate Student Fellowship along with the application cover letter are attached to this message.

All applications must be submitted by 5:00 PM on Monday, April 16, 2012 for consideration. Don't forget to include both the application and cover page. Please email ggscfellowships@berkeley.edu with any questions.

Website: greatergood.berkeley.edu

Mellon Foundation Shinnyo Fellowship

The Shinnyo Fellowship provides advising and monetary support to undergraduate and graduate students who desire to implement a service, peace-building, and/or sustainable social change project locally, nationally, or globally. Project proposals should be innovative, action-oriented, and emphasize peace-building.

Stipend: $3,000. Application deadline: April 2, 2012.

More information: Shinnyo Fellowship Application or email Mike at bishop@berkeley.edu

Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar

A year-long seminar for 2012-2013 on the topic of “Speciesism in biology, culture, and sociopolitics” has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation under their "Sawyer Seminar" program. Two one-year graduate fellowships are available for academic year 2012-2013. These will have an annual fellowship stipend of $30,000 which is meant to support the fellows’ participation in the seminar and their dissertation research/writing.
For more detailed information and advice about applying, see the GradNews post about this fellowship.
Application deadline: March 23, 2012.
For more information: website

Harvard Society of Fellows

 Candidates are nominated for Junior Fellowships, generally by those under whom they have studied. Applications are not accepted from the candidates themselves. A letter of nomination should include an assessment of the candidate's work and promise, complete contact information for the candidate, including current residential addresss and email address, and the names, mailing addresses, and email addresses of three additional people who agree to write letters of recommendation by the end of September at the latest. Men and women interested in any field of study are eligible for these fellowships. Nominees should be of the highest calibre of intellectual achievement, i.e. comparable to the most successful candidates for junior faculty positions at leading universities.
More information: website
Deadline for receiving nominations: August 31, 2012.
All letters should be sent to:
The Society of Fellows
Harvard University
78 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
617-495-2485

EZERA Fellowship

An endowment has been established in memory of Emeka Kalu Ezera to support graduate students from African countries south of the Sahara at the University of California at Berkeley. The funds from the endowment are assigned to the Center for African Studies to aid student scholars at the graduate level concentrating in African Studies. Funds may be requested for maintenance, travel, or research costs, as appropriate to enhance pre-dissertation and dissertation research on Africa. Ezera funds may be used to supplement, but not substitute for, other grants. Students are encouraged to apply to other sources, including the Rocca grant. Currently, grants from the Ezera fund will be in the $500 to $1000 range.
Deadline: April 2nd.
Please submit a hardcopy of your waiver form to the Center for African Studies at 342 Stephens Hall (mail code #2314).
Fill in the online application (Rocca/Ezera-use same online application form) and email the remaining application materials to asc@berkeley.edu.
For more information on CAS Fellowships, visit our website.

ROCCA Fellowship

The Rocca endowment supports student scholars at the advanced graduate level concentrating in African Studies. Funds may be requested for maintenance, travel, or research costs, as appropriate to enhance dissertation research in Africa in the upcoming academic year. Rocca funds are intended to supplement, not substitute for, other grants. Students are encouraged to apply to other sources as well. Awards are typically made in the range from $2000-$6000. In making awards, the Center adheres to the cap on stipends set by the Graduate Division, which in 2011 was $31,000 - combined for all fellowships awarded.
The Rocca Scholar program gives priority to advanced graduate students who show exceptional promise of advancing scholarship in some field of African Studies. Recipients of the award will carry the title Andrew and Mary Thompson Rocca Scholars, and must be advanced to candidacy before an award is made. Students are eligible for support regardless of previous fellowships from other sources.
Deadline: April 2nd
Please submit a hardcopy of your waiver form to the Center for African Studies at 342 Stephens Hall (mail code #2314).
Fill in the online application (Rocca/Ezera-use same online application form) and email the remaining application materials to asc@berkeley.edu.

UC/ACCORD Call for Proposals

Applications Submissions Open: March 7, 2012

Application Deadline: April 17, 2012 by 5:00pm

UC/ACCORD All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity announces a call for proposals: 1) Critical transitions in the lives of underrepresented students. 2) Critical conditions for enhancing college opportunities for underrepresented students. 3) Critical issues related to making higher education accessible to all Californians.
Awards are available for: A) One Year Dissertation Fellowships and B) Faculty Research Seed Grants.

Website: www.ucaccord.org

Berkeley Pubic Sociology Workshop

This summer the Berkeley Public Sociology Workshop is piloting the Berkeley Social Justice Fellowship, a new summer opportunity for Cal sociology graduate students interested in combining research and applied sociology. We're currently building a network of organizations through our alumni, grad students, and faculty. During the summer of 2012 we have identified seven organizations eager to host a graduate intern (see details in attached document). Alternatively, you may apply to work with an organization of your own choosing by submitting a letter of support from the organization detailing how your internship plan will contribute to its mission and work. If you are not able to secure the letter by the deadline (April 5), please let us know and we will consider granting extensions.  
f you think you might want to apply, please send an email indicating your interest to <nathaliemiller@berkeley.edu> as soon as possible so that we can gauge interest in this project. Formal applications should be sent to the same address by 5 pm on Thursday April 5 to <nathaliemiller@berkeley.edu>. The application consists of a CV or resume and a cover letter that explains:

(a) Your interest in working for an organization of your choice;
(b) How this work will contribute to social justice;
(c) How this work will contribute to your career.

Please feel free to send questions to the same email. And if you'd like to get involved or share organizational information, we'd love to hear from you. We'd like to get more people involved in organizing this initiative.