Applying

Rose Hills Summer Scholarships 2026

The application deadline for 2026 has now past. The information below is preserved for archival purposes.

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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 now CLOSED.

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 is live, you will be able to click on the blue portal button to submit your application.

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

Rose Hills Application Worksheet

Application Portal

The Rose Hills Summer Scholarships application portal is now closed; the deadline has past and last submissions will not be accepted.

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:

Information Session Slides

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

Deterministic Alternatives to Randomized Methods in Eigenvalue Computations

Chemical Biology

Isha Nadig

A Generalized Approach to Immunotargeting of Near-Infrared (NIR) Fluorophores

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,

Materials Science & Engineering

Ryan Kuo

Tensegrity Structures for Energy Absorption in Aerospace Landing and Reusable Rocket Systems

Environmental Sciences

Gio Bernal