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 Rose Hills Summer Scholarships is now CLOSED. Check back soon for Rose Hills Summer Scholarships 2026.
The information below may be referred for archival purposes.
The application for Rose Hills Summer Scholarships for 2025 and later has been abbreviated from past years and 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 is now CLOSED.
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
Previously 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.
- Bioengineering, Selin Flor, The Effect of Liver Organoid Generation on Different iPSC Lines
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Pranav Kolluri, Type 2 Diabetes and the Prediction of Bone Strength Loss through Porosity using Learning Models
- Mechanical Engineering, Annette Bennett, Hormonal Response to Zebra Finch Song
- Molecular and Cell Biology, Christie Bao, Investigating How Stress Disrupts Neuroendocrine Control of Female Reproductive Health
- Molecular and Cell Biology & Rhetoric, Katrina Manaloto, Identifying Neural Mechanisms of Reversal Learning in Adolescent Mouse Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Molecular and Cell Biology, Megan Luo, Development of a method to characterize proteins that occupy more than one fold