The university provides resources across campus for students applying to fellowship opportunities. Students frequently reference these resources to ensure they fulfill the requirements of their home program and the funding organization.
Deans of Students
In some cases, a fellowship may affect a student’s annual stipend or require special enrollment status. For other opportunities, the university will apply to the fellowship on behalf of the student. Applicants should consult both the fellowships team and the Dean of Students in their home division or school with questions related to these situations.
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Applicants whose research includes human subjects may need Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval to apply to research oriented fellowships. The university offers robust resources for navigating institutional review.
The Broader Impacts of Research
Increasingly, federal and private funding agencies are turning their focus and support to researchers and scholars who can communicate both the intellectual merit and broader impact of their work. This emphasis celebrates the scientist, social scientist, or humanist whose work makes a lasting impression on his or her intellectual community and society. Examples of funding agencies that privilege broader impacts include (but are not limited to): The Fulbright US Student Program and the National Science Foundation.
UChicagoGRAD has compiled the following list of opportunities to help students find venues where they can connect with their community, promote training and learning, broaden interest in their research or field, enhance infrastructure for research or education, and disseminate the importance of their work. For direct contact information at some of these organizations, please contact UChicagoGRAD at grad-fellowships@uchicago.edu.
Broader Impacts connections at the University of Chicago:
Humanities and Social Sciences
- Civic Knowledge Project
- Erika’s Loom
- The Odyssey Project / EduCom
- Oriental InstituteÂ
- Poverty, Promise, and Possibility
- Prisons, Persons, and Possibilities
- Sustainability PartnersÂ
- Timuel D. Black Edible Arts Garden
- Winning Words
Sciences
- @rtifice ChicagoÂ
- CANON Research Lab at UChicago STEM Ed
- The Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Office of Community Engagement and Cancer Disparities (OCECD)
- Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team (GRIT)Â
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Space Explorers Program
- Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Museum Partnership with the Adler Planetarium
- Materials Research Center’s Education and Outreach Programs
- myChoice (my Chicago Options in Career Empowerment)
- Postdoctoral Association, Biological Sciences Division, Outreach and Teaching Committee
- Splash! Chicago
- The STAGE Lab
- The University of Chicago Hospitals
- The University of Chicago SACNAS Chapter
- The University of Chicago Science Olympiad
- Urban Health Initiative
All Disciplines / Other resources at the University of Chicago
- Community Programs Accelerator
- Lean On Me UChicago
- Neighborhood Schools Program
- Office of Civic Engagement
- University of Chicago – Office of Special Programs – College Prep
- Upward Bound Program
​Broader Impacts connections in Hyde Park and Chicago:
Humanities and Social Sciences
- American Writers MuseumÂ
- Chicago Architecture Foundation
- Chicago History Museum
- DLA Piper Pro Bono
- Experimental Station
- Frank Lloyd Wright Trust (Frederick C. Robie House)
- Hyde Park Art Center
Sciences
- Adler Planetarium
- Argonne National Laboratory Education Outreach Program
- Chicago Pre-College Science and Engineering Program
- Chicago Public Schools Science Fair
- Chicago Women’s Health Center
- Community Health
- Expanding Your Horizons Chicago
- Field Museum
- Illinois Science Council
- Homewood Science Center
- Museum of Science and IndustryÂ
- Project Exploration
- Project SYNCERE
- Soapbox Science Chicago
All Disciplines
- After School MattersÂ
- Boys and Girls Clubs of ChicagoÂ
- Center on Halstead
- Chicago Cares
- Chicago Youth Programs
- Chinese American Service League
- Coppin Community Food Pantry
- Gateway to the Great Outdoors
- Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
- Hyde Park Neighborhood ClubÂ
- Inspiration Corporation
- MetroSquash
- The Night Ministry
- Rape Victim Advocates
- Strive Tutoring
- Up to Youth Mentoring Initiative