OURS National Scholarships

Sophia Young (’25, Cognitive Science & Data Science) has been selected to join the inaugural cohort of Lafayette Fellows, a graduate scholarship program that supports up to 30 American students with an interest in addressing global challenges in a French-American context. The Fellowship offers full funding for one year of master’s-level study in France as well as leadership training. A native of Oakland, California, Sophia graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. While at Berkeley, she worked as a Cognitive Science peer advisor, ran the Transfer Student Living and

We would like to wrap up the 2025–2026 academic year by congratulating all of the current Cal Bears and recent alums who received nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships this academic year, as well as those who submitted strong applications for more than 30 scholarship and fellowship programs our office supports.  Scholarship Recipients (pictured left to right, top to bottom): Astronaut ScholarshipZachary Cooper (’27, Molecular and Cell Biology/Business Administration) CBYXAnna Lieggi (’26, Political Science/Global Studies) Churchill ScholarshipCarolyn Nguyen (’26, Molecular and Cell Biology/Business Administration) Critical Language ScholarshipAidan Morgan Chan (’26, Economics/Statistics/Linguistics) Goldwater

Congratulations to juniors Janessa Reyes (Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies), Vinaya Sivakumar (Cognitive Science/Interdisciplinary Studies), and Annabel Gensler (Political Science) — left to right — who have been selected to join the 2025–2027 cohort of the Voyager Scholarship for Public Service (Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service) created by the Obamas and Brian Chesky, CEO and Co-Founder of Airbnb. The two-year Voyager Scholarship provides scholarships of up to $50,000 to help shape 100 young leaders who can bridge divides and help solve our biggest challenges. The program offers students financial

We would like to wrap up the 2024–2025 academic year by congratulating all of the current Cal Bears and recent alums who received nationally competitive scholarships and fellowships this academic year, as well as those who submitted strong applications for the 35 scholarship and fellowship programs our office supports. Astronaut Scholars – Carolyn Van-Dy Nguyen (’26) Boren Scholarship – Kristie Moore (’26) Critical Language Scholarship – Alexandra “Sasha” Bergseid (’29), Giselle Carreño (‘25), Utkarsh Dubey (‘27), Abigail Klein (’26), Tiffany Mar (’25), Khephra Owl (’25), and Arya Vishin (‘25) Goldwater

We are very pleased to announce that seven UC Berkeley students have been awarded the U.S. Government’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), a fully-funded 8–10-week overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students at every level of language learning. The next application deadline will be in November 2025 (for summer 2026 programs). Students in any year of college are eligible to apply! Please join us in congratulating the following students: Alexandra “Sasha” Bergseid (’29, EECS) will be spending the summer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, continuing her study of Russian.

Rising senior Danielle Tran, an English major minoring in Creative Writing and Education, has been selected as one of the outstanding undergraduates in the 2024 cohort of Beinecke Scholars. This prestigious scholarship provides $35,000 ($5,000 prior to graduate study and $15,000 per year) for two years of graduate study in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Eighty colleges and universities from across the U.S. (including UC Berkeley) are invited to nominate one student for the scholarship, and twenty scholarships are awarded nationwide. Most Beinecke recipients are at the top of

Mengyu Dong (Political Science/History, ‘15) has been awarded a Knight-Hennessy Scholarship to support her graduate studies in journalism at Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences. Recipients of this prestigious scholarship are selected from an international pool of applicants based on their independence of thought, purposeful leadership, and civic mindset. In addition to receiving financial support for their graduate programs, Knight-Hennessy Scholars gain exposure to a wide range of disciplines and cultures in their cohort and participate in the King Global Leadership Program, which is designed to develop transformational leadership capabilities.