BCNM Undergraduate Student Research, Mentorship, and Funding Opportunities, 2026-27

We're pleased to share the research, mentorship, and funding opportunities available to BCNM undergraduate students this year. Please see below for short descriptions and deadlines, and follow the links for more info!

Conference Grants
Application Due: October 1 and March 1

Small travel subsidies each semester for students presenting papers, posters, performances, or other research at professional conferences.

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Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Application Due: March 1

Provides $1000 for approximately 50 hours of work supporting new media graduate students on dissertation-level research during the summer term. Undergraduate Research Fellows will automatically be accepted into the next BCNM Undergraduate Research Symposium to present their work and take part in symposium sessions.

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AAPI Entertainment Career Fellowship
Application Due: April 5

Provides a stipend of $1,500 plus mentorship from industry professionals to help fellows pursue the start to their creative career journey in media and entertainment over the summer.

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Eugene Jarvis Scholarship for New Media Innovation
No application (All new media undergraduates are automatically considered and recipient is announced in Fall)

Recognizing that education has become increasingly expensive and that students as a result are motivated to make educational decisions based on future job prospects, the Silicon Valley game designer and entrepreneur Eugene Jarvis seeks to promote intellectual exploration through a scholarship that supports students with innovative design projects at the Center for New Media who show financial need.