Benefits:

• Awards are up to $5,000
• Opportunities to serve on research teams
• Mentored by African American faculty and alumni
• Learn to write grants
• Writing Retreats
• Dissertation Bootcamps
• Research Bootcamps
• Participate and engage with a community of scholars
• Opportunities to present your research nationally/internationally
• Opportunities to publish research

Eligibility Requirements

• Self-identifies as a member of the African American community,
• Accepted into a doctoral program at the University of Utah,
• Full-time doctoral student,
• Earned a 3.0 cumulative GPA or higher,
• A United States citizen,
• Able to demonstrate their sustained personal commitment with African American communities in the U.S. and in the academy, and who are able to bring diversity into their learning, teaching, and/or scholarship.