Research, Funding, and Awards

  • BOLD Women's Leadership Scholarship for Undergrads

    The BOLD Women’s Leadership Network is an initiative designed to cultivate courageous leadership in young women during the college years and beyond. BOLD focuses on facilitating opportunities for women’s career development and networking through scholarship funding, programming, and engagement in service/leadership projects to effect positive social change. If you have not heard of this initiative before, I encourage you to learn more on our website at:

    https://ugradresearch.uconn.edu/bold/

    The application for the second cohort of the BOLD Women’s Leadership Network is open.  Please forward this information along to eligible students whom you believe would make strong candidates for this important program.  Eligible students are rising juniors who must:

    • Be pursuing a bachelor’s degree at UConn and plan to graduate with that bachelor’s degree in May 2021 or August 2021.
    • Identify as a woman.
    • Be based at the Storrs campus for the following four semesters (Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021).
    • Be enrolled as a full-time student in good standing.
    • Have demonstrated exceptional academic promise, strong leadership potential, creative and critical thinking skills, and a commitment to social change.

    *Applications for the 2nd Cohort of the BOLD Women's Leadership Network are due by 11:59pm on May 19, 2019*

    Complete information and the application can be found online at:

    www.ugradresearch.uconn.edu/bold/  

    For more information, contact: Liza Boritz at Liza.Boritz@uconn.edu