Applications for SURF L&S 2025 are due by 12:00 NOON (Pacific Time) on
Friday, March 14, 2025.
Draft workshops to support applicants from each disciplinary area (e.g., Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Math & Physical Sciences) are being offered by SURF mentors throughout the month of February.
Please note: The Application Portal will automatically close at 12noon on March 14, so use the worksheets below to prepare you materials in advance and do not wait until the last minute to enter your responses in the portal.
Applying to SURF L&S
The application portal for SURF L&S 2025 will open on 9am February 28, 2025.
The SURF Application Worksheet will be posted on December 2, 2024. Once it is posted, you will be able to use the worksheet to begin preparing your application and research proposal for SURF L&S 2025.
When you are ready to submit, and the portal link becomes active, you will submit your responses via the application forms. It is important to complete the application in a single session, so it is important to have drafted your responses and proposal using the worksheets provided to avoid losing any data.
Please Note: To access the application materials (both the portal and worksheets), you must login from a bMail (berkeley.edu) account. Students external to UC Berkeley are ineligible for these programs and will not be granted access to the worksheets or application materials.
Application Portal
- The SURF 2025 Application Portal Link will go live at 9am on Friday, February 28, 2025.
Application & Research Proposal Worksheet
- The SURF Application WORKSHEET will be posted on Monday December 2, 2024.
Faculty Recommendation Portal
- The SURF program will send a request directly to the faculty mentor who is indicated on the SURF application, asking them to verify that they have agreed to serve as the applicant’s research supervisor.
Application Checklist:
N.B. This section contains archival references to the SURF 2024 cycle; the Information Session Slides will be updated in December for the SURF 2025 cycle.
- Review the SURF L&S Information Session presentation (slides linked here)
- Review the eligibility criteria (see the program main page linked here)
- Prepare a draft of the application, using a the research proposal worksheet above
- Although it is not required, applicants are strongly encouraged to attend both a ‘how to write a research proposal’ (slides linked here) and drafting workshop in January to get feedback on your draft proposal by attending disciplinary-area oriented draft workshop offered in February.
- Send a draft of your proposal to your faculty mentor along with a link to the Faculty Recommendation Portal, where they will submit their letter of recommendation.
- Sign up for the OURS newsletter to receive timely program updates and updates about the workshop offerings.
- Submit your application via the application portal by 12:00 NOON (Pacific Time) on March 14, 2024.