Rose Hills Summer Scholarships 2026
Applications for Rose Hills Summer Scholarships are due by Friday March 6, 2026 12:00 Noon (Pacific Time).
To learn more about the program, please attend an information session. For support on preparing a research proposal, consider attending a ‘How to write a research proposal’ workshop. These workshops will be scheduled in January and early February.
Pre-register on the OURS events page and sign up for the newsletter for program updates!
Applying To Rose Hills Summer Scholarships
The application portal for the 2026 Rose Hills Summer Scholarships is will go live in mid February.
The application for Rose Hills Summer Scholarships for 2026 differs in scope from the full research proposal required by SURF L&S and Haas Scholars Program.
Please use the worksheet below to begin preparing your application for Rose Hills Summer Scholarships 2026. When you are ready to submit your application, and the portal goes live, you will be able to click on the blue application portal link.
Please Note: To access the application materials (both the portal and worksheet), you must login from a bMail (berkeley.edu) account. Student external to UC Berkeley are ineligible for these programs
Application Worksheet
Application Portal
Submit your Application here:
The Rose Hills Summer Scholarships Application Portal will open in mid February 2026.
Faculty Mentors
- Applicants are responsible for supplying the email address of a faculty mentor who has agreed to supervise their proposed research project.
- The Rose Hills Summer Scholarship Selection Committee will contact faculty mentors separately to verify their support of the proposed project.
- Faculty must be either a UC Berkeley, UCSF, CHORI, SSL, or LBNL faculty member or lab scientist with the status of Principal Investigator on an established sponsored project.
Resources to Support Applying to Rose Hills
To register for information sessions, please go to the OURS events page. Registration is REQUIRED.
The dates and times are:
- November 12, 1-2 PM
- December 1, 9:30 – 10:30 AM
- December 3, 10 – 11 AM
- December 9, 12 – 1 PM
- December 15, 10 – 11 AM
- December 18, 1 – 2 PM
2025 Successful Research Proposals
Note: The following proposals will be listed by Major(s), Fellow, and Title of Project. To access the files linked, you must be logged into a valid UC Berkeley email address.
Applied Mathematics
Madhavi Prakash
Chemical Biology
Isha Nadig
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
Materials Science & Engineering
Ryan Kuo
Environmental Sciences
Gio Bernal
Genetics & Plant Biology
Sanya Sitlani
Integrative Biology
Ziad Cohen
Mathematics, Physics
Nishanth Chavourkar
Microbial Biology
Clara Bardeen
Molecular and Cell Biology
Lavanya Gupta
Molecular and Cell Biology
Vivian Nguyen
Nuclear Engineering
Jonathan Loy
Pre-2025 Successful Research Proposals
Note: The following proposals will be listed by Major(s), Fellow, and Title of Project. To access the files linked, you must be logged into a valid UC Berkeley email address.
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Pranav Kolluri
Molecular and Cell Biology
Christie Bao
Molecular and Cell Biology
Katrina Manaloto
Molecular and Cell Biology
Megan Luo