program

Mentoring Grant

Awarded Grants

Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2023 Stein and Gomez Alvarado

With this award, Stein will advocate for systemic change at the department, college, and university levels to remove barriers related to financial challenges.
Gabriela Stein
University Of North Carolina At Greensboro
2023 – 2025
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2023 + Salehi and Jin

With this award, Salehi will solidify her burgeoning mentoring philosophy that emphasizes providing actionable feedback, helping students set realistic goals, and empathizing with the unique issues facing researchers of color.
Niloufar Salehi
Regents Of The University Of California At Berkeley
2023 – 2025
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2023 Ambo & Musillo

With this award, Stewart-Ambo intends to emphasize non-hierarchical mentorship models and prepare ethical and community-engaged scholars who are assets to their communities.
Theresa Ambo
University Of California, San Diego
2023 – 2025
$60,000
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2023 Rodriguez and Lopez-Escobar

With this award, Rodriguez will share what she learns about mentoring with her department chair and dean and host a brown bag lunch series to share research and key learning about mentoring with other faculty and graduate students.
Sophia Rodriguez
University Of Maryland College Park
2023 – 2025
$59,975.54
Grant

Mentoring and Career Development: 2023 Tormos-Aponte and Lachir

With this award, Tormos-Aponte will leverage his infrastructure approach to equip mentees with the skills to fulfill their self-defined aspirations.
Fernando Tormos-Aponte
University Of Pittsburgh
2023 – 2025
$110,000

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Funding / Mentoring Grants

Applicant Resources – Mentoring Grants

Resources on this page include applicant guidance, Research-Practice Partnerships, and additional resources geared toward applicants of the Foundation’s research grants on reducing inequality, as well as Institutional Challenge Grant applicants, as they develop research agendas.
Applicant Resources – Mentoring Grants
Funding

Mentoring Grants

Status:
Closed
The competition will re-open in late 2023. The next deadline for applications will be in February 2024.
Mentoring Grants
News
  •  Aug 23, 2023

2023 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color

The Foundation is pleased to announce that three research grantees and three William T. Grant Scholars have been awarded grants to support their development as mentors to junior researchers of color. The awardees will mentor promising doctoral students and post-doctoral ...
Foundation Staff
2023 Mentoring Grants to Support Junior Researchers of Color
Blog Post

The Foundation’s Approach to Career Development: Our Mentoring Philosophy

Mentoring is a cornerstone of the Foundation’s approach to supporting the career development of junior researchers. For instance, while applicants of the William T. Grant Scholars program must propose measured theoretical and methodological risks that will stretch their expertise, ...
Foundation Staff
The Foundation’s Approach to Career Development: Our Mentoring Philosophy
Blog Post

Positionality and Inclusion in Research Teams

How can applicants think about positionality and inclusion in their research teams? The academic enterprise is rife with practices, routines, and structures that replicate inequality along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, economic standing, language minority status, and immigration status...
Melissa Wooten
Positionality and Inclusion in Research Teams
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