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The University of Michigan Library is using Submittable as a tool for collecting and reviewing applications to various fellowships, award programs, projects proposals, and other applications.
Attention Undergraduate Students: Pamela J. Mackintosh Undergraduate Research Awards are available to undergraduates who have conducted research during the current academic year. Research conducted during the Spring, Summer, or Fall term is eligible for consideration — not just Winter term. The deadline is May 1, but you can submit anytime after Nov 15.
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Each year, the University of Michigan Library conducts a research award competition to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary academic achievements of our undergraduate students. Awards are given to students who demonstrate excellence in library research conducted in support of an undergraduate student project.
Undergraduate students from any University of Michigan campus are eligible to participate. Projects can be in any format or medium such as a paper, website, audio/video documentary or an art installation. Individuals and teams from any discipline may apply.
For individuals, we offer several award categories for single term papers, multi-term papers, innovative and creative projects, and first-year research. Team projects are also eligible for awards. Additionally, we confer special Global Impact awards.
Awards are evaluated on the strength of the applicants' personal essay, a letter of support, the project itself, and the project bibliography.
Before you submit, be sure to read our very, very, very helpful Tips document.
Our Undergraduate Research Awards library web pages provide additional information.
To apply, you should enter your umich email address, then "sign in" confirming your U-M credentials.
Questions? Contact libresearchawards@umich.edu
The Anti-Racist Digital Research Institute is a mini-grant program and summer institute that is intended to help up to 6 University of Michigan scholars or research teams who have an idea for a project to develop a proposal and project plan.
The institute, held May through July 2025. See more about the structure of the institute.
Awardees will gain a deeper understanding of anti-racist digital research methods and develop a learning community of anti-racist digital researchers and practitioners. Throughout the institute, you’ll work with peers and digital scholarship technical and methodology experts to develop an ethical, sustainable, and justice-oriented digital project proposal and plan.
Project ideas can take a broad range of forms, from collecting community interviews to textual analysis of historical documents to providing access to data in interesting ways, such as digital maps or collections. Scholars with collaborative, multi-generational, or community-centered research ideas are highly encouraged to apply. See examples of previously funded projects.
This program provides:
- $5,000 in project funds to be awarded upon completion of the institute
- Participation in a summer institute with a cohort of peers, along with technical and library staff
- Shared knowledge and understanding of anti-racist digital research methods
- Support for the conceptualization and development of a proposal and/or project plan that can be used solicit funding for the next stage of the project
- Access to library and technical expertise for planning project requirements
- Community-building and other opportunities through NCID’s Anti-Racism Collaborative
- Affiliation with U-M centers and institutes that align with your project
See more about the support we’ll provide and funding details, including how you can use grants funds and information about possible supplemental funding.
In an effort to ensure equitable access to institutional resources, the institute has a set allocation of additional funding available to cover costs of participating (such as lodging, parking, mileage reimbursement) for those who might need it in order to attend select in-person events (though remote options will also be available). We will work with awardees after they are selected to address any needs.
See more about the support we’ll provide and how funds may be used.
The institute is a combined effort of the U-M Library, LSA Technology Services, and National Center for Institutional Diversity’s Anti-Racism Collaborative.
The Hubert I. Cohen Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection. The Mavericks & Makers Collection documents all aspects of the film production process through the papers of notable independent filmmakers including Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Alan Rudolph, Nancy Savoca, John Sayles, and Orson Welles, It also includes the papers of various specialty film producers and distributors including Ira Deutchman and Robert Shaye. The Fellowship, established with a very generous gift from Joshua Bilmes, honors Professor Cohen’s long and distinguished career at the University of Michigan, where he has introduced thousands of students to the art of the film through his intense and detailed examination of numerous auteurs and film genres.
Awards
$2,000 for a project requiring domestic travel to Ann Arbor MI
$3,000 for a project requiring international travel to Ann Arbor MI
Timeline
Applications will be accepted beginning Friday 1 November 2024.
Applications are due by Friday 31 January 2025.
Decisions will be made and communicated by Friday 14 March 2025.
Awards may be used for residencies between 5 May 2025 and 14 August 2026.
Questions? Contact Philip Hallman at phallman@umich.edu.
The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections, including those held in the Special Collections Research Center and the Stephen S. Clark Library. Collections that are out of scope for this fellowship include the Joseph A. Labadie Collection and the Papyrology Collection.
Awards
$2,000 for a project requiring domestic travel to Ann Arbor MI
$3,000 for a project requiring international travel to Ann Arbor MI
Timeline
Applications will be accepted beginning Friday 1 November 2024.
Applications are due by Friday 31 January 2025.
Decisions will be made and communicated by Friday 14 March 2025.
Awards may be used for residencies between 5 May 2025 and 14 August 2026.
Questions? Contact Martha O'Hara Conway at moconway@umich.edu.
The William P. Heidrich Visiting Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to the Joseph A. Labadie Collection. The Labadie Collection is one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive collections of its kind, with materials on anarchism, anti-colonialist movements, antiwar and pacifist movements, atheism and free thought, civil liberties and civil rights, labor and workers’ rights, LGBTQ movements, youth and student protest, and other related topics.
Awards
$2,000 for a project requiring domestic travel to Ann Arbor MI
$3,000 for a project requiring international travel to Ann Arbor MI
Timeline
Applications will be accepted beginning Friday 1 November 2024.
Applications are due by Friday 31 January 2025.
Decisions will be made and communicated by Friday 14 March 2025.
Awards may be used for residencies between 5 May 2025 and 14 August 2026.
Questions? Contact Julie Herrada at jherrada@umich.edu.