UC Davis/UC System
- UC LEADS Fellowship
UC LEADS Fellows are eligible to receive competitive funding packages of at least 5 years, including tuition and fees, stipend/salary support, and a summer stipend. Fellows also receive a transition supplement, to support moving expenses and/or the transition to graduate school at a UC campus, and a professional development funding allocation to be used at any time during your Ph.D. program.
Graduate Program Application Fee Waivers
The application fee is waived for UC LEADS alumni applying to master’s and doctoral programs at all 10 of our UC campuses. (Note: this waiver applies to UC master's applications as well, though the fellowship is for UC Ph.D. students only.)
Fellowship Award Details
For funding eligibility, UC LEADS alumni must apply and be admitted to a UC STEM Ph.D. program within 5 years of completing their UC LEADS undergraduate program. There is no additional application, and there is currently no limit to the number of awards that will be given.Fellowship Funding
Beginning with alumni applying to a UC STEM Ph.D. program to enroll in fall 2025, all admitted UC LEADS alumni are eligible to receive competitive funding packages of at least 5 years. The UC LEADS Fellowship is a cost-shared award package between UCOP and your UC graduate program, and includes tuition and fees, stipend/salary support (at the competitive level for your program), and a summer stipend (for at least the 2 years covered by UCOP). Additional funding details will be provided in the offer letter once you are accepted into a program.Living Supplement/Transition Award
Enrolled UC LEADS Fellows will receive a $3,000 transition supplement, to support moving expenses and/or the transition to graduate school at a UC campus.Professional Development
Enrolled UC LEADS Fellows will receive a $5,000 professional development funding allocation that may be used at any time during their Ph.D. program.
Learn More: https://ucleads.ucop.edu- 2025-26 Library Graduate Student Prize
- The UC Davis Library is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 Library Graduate Student Prize. Graduate students, professional students and postdoctoral scholars can win up to $1,000 for their research using library resources.
Important Dates
Start Date for Accepting Submissions - Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Student Submission Deadline - Friday, December 5, 2025
Winner Notification - Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Prize Ceremony - Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Learn More and Apply: https://library.ucdavis.edu/news/apply-for-the-library-graduate-student-prize-2026/ - 2025-26 Fall Travel Awards
We are excited to announce that applications for the Fall 2025 Graduate Studies Travel Awards are now open! These awards are designed to support graduate students at UC Davis who wish to present their research at conferences, workshops, or symposiums.
Here are the key details:
What: Fall 2025 Graduate Studies Travel Award – Students apply through InfoReady.
Student Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - This is a hard deadline.
Eligibility: The award is intended for students nearing the completion of their degree who have not previously received it. Eligible students must be in good academic standing, registered as full-time students, and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0. Students must have traveled, will be traveling, or attending virtually to present at meetings of nationally and internationally recognized professional societies between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026.
Award Announcement: Fall awardees will be announced during the week of December 8, 2025.
Award AmountsAll international travel: $2,000
Domestic travel outside of California: $1,500
Hawaii and Alaska (exception): $1,750
Travel within California and virtual conferences: $1,000
For more information about the Travel Awards, including detailed eligibility criteria and the application procedure, please visit grad.ucdavis.edu/travel-awards.- UC President's Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellowship
The Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings are an extraordinary week-long opportunity to engage with Nobel Laureates and esteemed researchers. The next meeting in 2026 is focused on interdisciplinary research in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine/Physiology and will take place June 28 through July 3, 2026 in Lindau, Germany. We encourage graduate and undergraduate students, and postdoctoral scholars to apply for the UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellowship to attend the 75th session. Applicants should have an established research project that is closely related to one or more of these fields.
About the FellowshipThe UC President’s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellowship is open to all students (undergraduate and graduate) and postdocs from all 10 UC campuses. The fellowship covers travel to and from Germany, food, lodging and conference fees, thanks to funding from UC Investments and the Office of the National Laboratories.
Fellows will attend lectures from the Nobel laureates as well as participate in small group dialogues with them. UC Fellows also benefit from networking opportunities with their UC peers and other scientists from institutions and academic circles from around the world.
Fellows for the 2026 meeting must work in a disciplinary field connected to chemistry, physics, medicine and/or physiology and will be selected through a comprehensive process that begins at the campus level before final selections are made by the UC president.
For UC Davis students and postdocs, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs Duncan Temple Lang will be leading the campuswide nomination process.
- UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- The Program
The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will advance the research excellence and public service missions of the University of California. Contributions may include leadership activities or public service towards increasing access to higher education and pursuit of academic careers. Examples may include research focusing on underserved populations. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic and research careers the perspective that comes from their own educational background or their understanding of the experiences of groups historically underrepresented in higher education in the United States.
Awards and Appointments
Fellowships are awarded for research conducted at any one of the University of California’s ten campuses. The award includes a salary starting at approximately $69,073 depending on field and experience, benefits including health insurance and paid vacation/sick leave, and up to $5,000 for research-related and program travel expenses. Each award is for a minimum of 12 months and may be renewable for an additional term upon demonstration of academic/research productivity.
Eligibility
Applicants must receive a Ph.D. or terminal degree from an accredited university before the start of their fellowship. Successful applicants must present documents demonstrating that they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are encouraged to apply. All scholars interested in conducting postdoctoral research at any UC campus and pursuing an academic career at the UC are invited to apply.
Application
Apply online at ppfpapply.ucop.edu.
Deadline
November 1, 2025 - Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships
THIS FELLOWSHIP SUPPORTS DOCTORAL CANDIDATES IN THEIR FINAL YEAR OF WRITING, WHO ARE WORKING IN AREAS OF RELIGION, ETHICS, VALUES, OR MORALS.
Now in its fifth decade, the Newcombe Fellowship has become a nationally recognized award that distinguishes recipients within their fields. The Newcombe Fellowships have supported over 1400 graduate students who have written dissertations which respond to and participate in, deep and meaningful conversations within religion, values, and ethics. Those awarded a Newcombe Fellowship are often at the forefront of creative and original scholarship, proposing new insights and ground-breaking work in the questions and conversations surrounding religion, ethics, and values.
We are seeking applications that reflect normative complexity. That is, we are looking for proposals that demonstrate moral, ethical, theological, or religious relevance with nuance, depth, and intellectual sophistication. Strong applications will go beyond merely identifying a topic related to values—they will engage that topic rigorously, exploring its implications, tensions, and significance with clarity and seriousness.
Applicants should make the normative dimensions of their work unmistakably clear. We expect to see evidence that the scholar is genuinely wrestling with difficult questions—whether ethical dilemmas, theological tensions, or issues of moral consequence—and doing so with depth, originality, and scholarly rigor.
This does not mean that projects without overt normative arguments are excluded. We also welcome non-normative approaches, provided they attend meaningfully to questions of values, ethics, or religion in ways that reflect analytical subtlety and moral or theological relevance. What we aim to avoid are topics that tangentially engage the deeper questions at the heart of the mission of this Fellowship.
Opens: August 1
Deadline: November 1
Funding: $31,000
Timeline• Application (phase 1) opens: August 1
• Application closes: November 1
• All applications under review: November 15 – January 15
• Status notification to finalists and other applicants: January 15 – January 21
• Finalist submission of application (phase 2): January 23 – February 13
• Finalist reviews begin: February 17
• Fellows chosen by April 1; all finalists notified of status: the first week of April
Evaluation Criteria
All applications are reviewed using the same core criteria and rigorous standards of scholarly merit.Please review the evaluation criteria on the Fellowship webpage: https://newcombefoundation.org/fellowships
- Leaders for the Future Fellowship
The Leaders for the Future Fellowship is open to UC Davis Master’s and Ph.D. students as well as postdoctoral researchers in all disciplines who are interested in developing leadership, innovation and business skills while engaging in an experiential project or applied experience outside academia.
Structured career exploration and professional development through a series of workshops.
9-month long program.
Information Sessions:
July 30th at 12pm via ZoomAugust 6th at 12pm via Zoom
Apply and Learn More: https://innovate.ucdavis.edu/leaders-future
2025 Important Dates:Event Date/Time Location UC Entrepreneurship Academy Sept. 9-12, 2025 Session #1 Oct. 8, 2025
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Session #2 Oct. 22, 2025
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Session #3 Nov. 12, 2025
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Session #4 Jan. 14, 2026
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Session #5 Feb. 25, 2026
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Session #6 March 18, 2025
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Session #7 April 29, 2026
11-1 PMGallagher Hall Career Panel Dec. 3, 2025 Final Presentations + Closing Reception May 21, 2026
All dayGallagher Hall - Sacramento Family First Economic Support Pilot (FFESP)
What is the Sacramento Family First Economic Support Pilot (FFESP)?
It is a guaranteed income pilot for parents/legal guardians caring for children 0-5 years of age, in certain zip codes of Sacramento County, who are under 200% of the federal poverty level. 200 randomly selected participants will receive $725.00 per month for 12 months.
FFESP will assess how the provision of guaranteed income to the eligible population affects families over time. Families will also have access to supportive services, such as connection to community-based organizations in their communities, access to one-on-one financial coaching, and monthly financial webinars and peer support groups.
The pilot will be administered and facilitated by United Way California Capital Region in collaboration with Sacramento County Department of Child, Family and Adult Services (DCFAS).
More Info: https://ffesp.org/Eligibility Requirements: https://ffesp.org/eligibility/
- Graduate Student Child Care Grant (GSCCG)
- The Graduate Student Child Care Grant (GSCCG) Program provides up to $5,675 per UC student per year. This includes $1,400 for Summer 2025 (if eligible) and $1,425 per quarter or $2,137/2,138 per semester, beginning Fall 2025, to full-time graduate and professional students with children from birth through age 12, regardless of financial need. The program is designed to offset actual costs incurred in childcare services. The GSCCG can be supplemented with additional funds from the Community Based Care Grant (CBCG) program for those students who demonstrate both financial and situational need.
Please visit the website for more information and applications: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/student-parent/ucd-grant - Community Based Care Grant (CBCG)
- The Community Based Care Grant (CBCG) provides awards to full-time graduate and professional students parents who demonstrate financial and situational need. Children from birth through age 12 are eligible: $2,400 per quarter or $3,600 per semester is awarded for children 0-1; $2,000 per quarter or $3,000 per semester is awarded for children 2-5; and $1,100 per quarter or $1,650 per semester is awarded for children 6-12.
Please visit the website for more information and applications: https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/worklife-wellness/student-parent/ucd-grant - Public Scholars for the Future
The Public Scholars for the Future program was established to support doctoral students who are interested in developing their community engaged research with non-university partners. The aim of the program is to integrate community-centered theories, methods and techniques into the research and scholarship practices of the next generation of public scholars.
Students who successfully complete the program will be awarded $1,000 for research support.
For more information, visit the Public Scholars for the Future program website.
- LAUNCH Postdoctoral Training Program
- The LAUNCH (Leaners to Leaders in Urology, Nephrology, and non-Cancer Hematology) Training Program is looking for applicants for its open postdoctoral training slots for one year of support to start before June 30, 2025. Any postdoctoral fellow or trainee who wishes to undergo research training in the basic, clinical or translational sciences within non-malignant urology, nephrology and hematology is encouraged to apply.
Applications can be submitted on a rolling bases. Application reviews will be conducted two weeks after the full application materials are received, with applicants who are selected to move on then completing an interview.
To be eligible, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; be affiliated with UC Davis, USCF, UC Berkeley or Stanford University; have an M.D., M.D./Ph.D., or D.V.M.; commit to academic careers in research; have a primary mentor who has a track record of success in research in nephrology, urology, or hematology; have not already received more than two years of T32/F32 or TL1 funding; and conduct research within the mission areas.
Visit launch.ucsf.edu for more information.
External Opportunities
- U.S. National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
The purpose of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. Since 1952, the program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, including STEM education. NSF GRFP was established to recruit and support individuals who demonstrate the potential to make significant contributions in STEM, including STEM education. NSF encourages applications from the full spectrum of talent that the U.S. has to offer.
Application Deadline(s) (received by 5 p.m. local time of applicant’s mailing address):November 10, 2025: Life Sciences
November 12, 2025: Computer and Information Science and Engineering; Materials Research; Psychology; Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences; STEM Education and Learning
November 13, 2025: Engineering
November 14, 2025: Chemistry; Geosciences; Mathematical Sciences; Physics and Astronomy
More Information: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/grfp-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-program/nsf25-547/solicitation#elig- Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship
Applications for the 2026 Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) are now open! The Fellowship supports exceptional doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics.
At Jane Street, we take a rigorous, quantitative approach to trading on global markets, combining techniques from machine learning, distributed systems, programmable hardware, statistics, and applied mathematics. Our culture is steeped in the idea that we will never stop solving; we’re looking forward to supporting technically excellent PhD students who share our core values of intellectual curiosity and humility. Those awarded the Fellowship will receive:
Full tuition and fees covered for the upcoming academic year.
A $50,000 USD stipend (or the equivalent in your local currency) to help with living expenses while completing their PhD.
An invitation to visit our office to give a talk on any topic to Jane Street employees and other Fellowship recipients; all expenses paid.
Deadline
November 21, 2025Learn more about eligibility here.
- California Breast Cancer Research Program Trainee Award Opportunities
The recent changes to federal research priorities have opened gaps in breast cancer research and training in topic areas that scientists, advocates, clinicians, and policy makers identify as important for understanding, preventing and curing the disease. California Breast Cancer Researcg Program (CBCRP) recognizes that these federal re-prioritizations are undermining young investigators at a particularly vulnerable time in their career, therefore we are launching Bridge Funding Awards and re-instituting Full Fellowship Awards for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows in our 2025-2026 Call for Applications.
We are offering three trainee award opportunities:
• Bridge Funding for Fellows: Supports predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows whose federal fellowships have been prematurely terminated and are pursuing breast cancer research in California. $25,000 direct costs for up to 1 year.
• Predoctoral Fellowships: Students enrolled in a doctoral graduate program in California conducting breast cancer research and mentored by an established breast cancer researcher. Up to $60,000 stipend (plus additional expenses) annually for up to 2 years.
• Postdoctoral Fellowships: Breast cancer researchers hired as postdoctoral fellows by a California institution and mentored by an established breast cancer researcher. Up to $70,000 stipend/salary (plus additional expenses) annually for up to 2 years. All fellows including those from groups underrepresented in breast cancer research and/or
those who wish to pursue careers focused on questions on environmental contributors to breast cancer, health disparities and population-level prevention of breast cancer are encouraged to apply.
Applicants may only receive one Bridge Funding grant. Applicants may apply for and be awarded Bridge Funding and a Fellowship in this funding cycle. Review the Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship application instructions to learn more about applying for those funding opportunities.
Application RequirementsTo be eligible for these awards, fellows must:
Currently be enrolled at a California institution in a doctoral degree graduate program (terminal masters degree allowed for Bridge Funding only) or hold the position of postdoctoral fellow as defined by the institution
Work on a project that is focused on breast cancer in any of CBCRP priority areas. Review the CBCRP 2025-26 Cycle 32 Call for Applications for a full description of the priority areas.
Bridge Funding For Fellows Applications and Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Letters of Intent must be submitted in SmartSimple, our grant application database, by the deadline in order to be considered. SmartSimple will be open for submissions on September 1.
Application Information Webinar
We are hosting an applicant informational webinar on September 9, 2025 from 12:00–1:00 PM PT. Please register and join us to learn about eligibility, requirements, and the application process for funding opportunities, including:Bridge Funding for Fellows
Fellowship Awards
IDEA Awards
Community Research Collaboration Awards
Conference Awards
Key DatesAward Letter of Intent Application Deadline Start Date Bridge Funding NA October 30, 2025 February 1, 2026 Predoctoral Fellowship January 15, 2026 March 5, 2026 August 1, 2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship January 15, 2026 March 5, 2026 August 1, 2026