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Holden Furber Undergraduate Writing Prize in South Asia Studies

Deadline: 04/01/2025 (Tentative)

Annual award for the best undergraduate essay on any topic related to South Asia.

Center for Africana Studies Annual Prizes

Deadline: 03/12/2025 (Tentative)

The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM) NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Deadline: 02/01/2025 (Tentative)

The LRSM offers undergraduates interested in materials science and engineering research with Summer Research Fellowships through the National Science Foundation.

José Miguel Oviedo Undergraduate Student Paper Award

Deadline: 03/22/2025 (Tentative)

The José Miguel Oviedo Undergraduate Student Paper Award is given annually to the best paper in Latin American and Latino Studies written by an undergraduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Samuel and Esther Goldin Endowment Award

Deadline: 03/18/2025 (Tentative)

This annual prize recognizes an outstanding thesis or research paper in the field of Jewish Studies.

Jewish Studies Administered Research Awards

Deadline: 03/25/2025 (Tentative)

Each fall and spring the Jewish Studies Program offers Goldfein Research Awards, Brenner Special Opportunity Awards, and Schwartz Awards to both undergraduate and graduate Penn students to cover research projects and study programs in or related to Jewish studies.

Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership

Deadline: 05/31/2024 (Tentative)

The Penn IUR Fellows in Urban Leadership Program, open to Penn undergraduates, engages a small cohort of selected students with high-level local, regional, and national leaders drawn from government, business, and civil society to discuss decision-making in urban places.

The Urban Studies Program Gordon Fellowship

Deadline: 04/26/2024

Winners of the Gordon Fellowship will receive a $5,000 stipend to explore careers that would lead to improving the quality of life in cities, whether in the public, non-profit, or private sectors and will benefit from career mentoring through alumni activities during the school year.

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