Grants and Research Support

Introductory Research Experience Support

Apply in spring of first or second year for funding during summer

• Honors Summer Research Apprenticeship Grant
  • Available for the summer before or after a student’s second year on campus
  • Enables students to pursue what would otherwise be an unpaid introductory research experience under the guidance of a UW faculty mentor
  • Standard award of $3000

Senior Honors Thesis Research Support

Summer Awards

Apply in spring of junior year for funding during the summer before senior year

• Honors Summer Senior Thesis Research Grant
  • Helps students with research-related expenses for work toward senior Honors thesis
  • Standard award of $3000
• Barry L. Popkin Senior Thesis Research Award
  • For students doing research in economics or social sciences, with priority going to students who intend on traveling to a lower-middle income country outside of Europe to conduct a portion of their research.
    • The awardee will be selected from the pool of Summer Senior Honors Thesis Grant applicants.
  • Standard award of up to $3500 in scholarship funds
• Mark Mensink Honors Research Grant
  • Honors Program’s most prestigious senior thesis award, recognizing the most distinguished senior thesis proposal submitted to the program each spring.
    • The awardee will be selected from the pool of applicants for the Summer Senior Honors Thesis Grant.
  • Provides the awardee with funds equal to two semesters of resident, full-time tuition (excluding fees) in scholarship funds

Academic Year Awards

Apply in fall of senior year

• Trewartha Senior Honors Thesis Research Award

Study Abroad Grants

Apply in fall or spring (depending on your study abroad term(s))

• Kurz and Chuck Snowden Honors Directors’ Fund Study Abroad Awards
  • For Honors students studying abroad on an official semester or year-long UW program
  • Standard award of $1250 in scholarship funds

Research-Related Travel Grants

Applications accepted on a rolling basis

• Bromley Conference Travel Award
  • For Honors students presenting their findings at research conferences
  • Standard awards of $250 (attendance) and $500 (presenting) in scholarship funds

Community or University Service Project Funding

Apply in spring when you have at least two semesters left before graduation

• Cyrena Pondrom Leadership Award
  • Supports student projects to improve UW-Madison, the community and/or the university student body
  • Provides up to two Honors Program students with funds equal to two semesters of resident, full-time tuition in scholarship funds, as well as up to $3000 of funding to help them implement their ideas