Awards, Scholarships and Fellowships
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Honoring exceptional undergraduate work in photography, the Lyon Prize is awarded in memory of writer, artist, photographer, and UC Berkeley administrator Matt Lyon.
Dept/Type: CED | Award
Quantity/Amount: 1st Place: $1000, 2nd Place $200
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
The Cruz Fellowship will be awarded every third year (tri-annually) to an M.Arch student in his or her last year at CED. Applications for the 2025-2026 fellowship will be accepted in Spring 2025.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Fellowship
Quantity/Amount: $1,500
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
The California Homebuilding Foundation Fellowship provides financial support to M.Arch or PhD students who are involved in building or construction related programs while at CED, and are considering a career within the building or construction industries.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Fellowship
Quantity/Amount: $5,000 available (split between 1-2 students)
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
One architecture, landscape architecture, or city planning student will receive a paid summer 2023 internship at the Hart Howerton office in San Francisco.
Dept/Type: CED | Prize
Quantity/Amount: Paid Summer Internship
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
PYATOK is pleased to offer a paid internship to an undergraduate or graduate architecture student with a passion for housing and socially equitable architecture. Students of all backgrounds may apply, but preference will be given to first generation college students and/or community college transfer students.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Prize
Quantity/Amount: Full Paid Internship
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship, Harold Stump Memorial Traveling Fellowship, and Andrew Beckerman Travel Fellowship offer $10,000-$20,000 prizes for international travel and research, awarded annually to Option 2 or 3 Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) students in the College of Environmental Design.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Prize
Quantity/Amount: Up to $20,000
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
The T.Y. Lin Prize is awarded annually to students who wish to pursue research in architecture with a strong engineering component. Eligible applicants are MArch, MS, and PhD students with at least one year remaining to complete their degrees.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Prize
Quantity/Amount: $10,000 (split between 1–2 recipients)
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
The Eisner Prizes in the Creative Arts are the most distinguished awards in five departments of UC Berkeley: English, Music, Art, Dramatic Art, and Environmental Design. The award recognizes outstanding creative achievement in urban design.
Dept/Type: CITY | Prize
Quantity/Amount: $2,000
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
The Falik Family Graduate Fellowship provides support for graduate students who demonstrate a commitment to work in the areas of housing policy and affordable housing.
Dept/Type: CITY | Fellowship
Quantity/Amount: $14,250 total, divided between 1-3 recipients
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
Each year, the Michael B. Teitz Fellowship provides a stipend to students who follow in the path of Emeritus Professor Michael Teitz in pursuing rigorous research on issues affecting people or countries underrepresented in urban planning.
Dept/Type: CITY |
Quantity/Amount: Up to $2,500
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
The Eisner Prizes in the Creative Arts are the most distinguished awards in five departments of the University: English, Music, Art, Dramatic Art, and Environmental Design. This year the amount allocated to Landscape Architecture is $2,000. The awards will be made for outstanding creative achievement in landscape architectural design.
Quantity/Amount: 2,000
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The Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Award for Excellence in Landscape Design. Funded by the Narayanan Family Foundation, and now in its third year, the ELD award supports an individual or team of undergraduate and/or graduate student(s) to undertake a research project exploring innovation in landscape architectural design that relates to environmental issues such as sea level rise, green infrastructure, climate change, wetland restoration, and/or environmental justice, among possible topics for exploration.
Dept/Type: LAND | Award
Quantity/Amount: Two or three research awards will be made at $4,000 or $8,000 each.
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The Stephen Lenci Award supports students following a discipline of study bridging architecture and landscape architecture with an emphasis on history.
Dept/Type: ARCH, LAND | Award
Quantity/Amount: $3,000
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
The Judith Lee Stronach Travel Scholarships are open to undergraduates in all departments at CED and are meant to encourage the study of new places, cultures, and peoples, as well as a commitment to social responsibility. All travel should have a service-learning focus, combining educational goals and community service in a way that enhances student growth as well as the common good. Service-learning travel experiences can be in the context of volunteer work, a structured study-abroad program, self-directed senior thesis research, or independent research. Prize awarded to 4–6 students, each, during each award cycle.
Dept/Type: CED | Scholarship
Quantity/Amount: Up to $5,000 per student, depending on budget
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
One to two architecture students will be awarded a summer 2023 paid internship at Steinberg Hart. The internship is available at the firm's San Francisco office.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Award
Quantity/Amount: Summer 2022 Paid Internship
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
The Michael Ho Memorial Travel Scholarship was established in 2006 to honor Michael Ho's (BA 1984, MBA 1988) legacy and love for learning, architecture, and travel. The income from the Michael Ho Endowed Scholarship Fund is to be used to award an annual travel scholarship to a third-year undergraduate majoring in architecture at CED.
Dept/Type: ARCH | Scholarship
Quantity/Amount: Up to $3,000 to one recipient
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
Established through a gift by the Chung family, this prize is given each year to an urban studies sophomore or junior in order to support a public service project or internship that he or she will undertake during the summer. It is required that the project/internship has a public service initiative.
Dept/Type: CITY | Award
Quantity/Amount: Up to $3,000
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
The ASJC is a recently established fellowship program at the College of Environmental Design that offers significant debt relief to select master's students who intend to do social justice work after graduation.
Dept/Type: CED | Fellowship
Quantity/Amount: Varies
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
Funded by MIG founding Principals Daniel Iacofano and Susan Goltsman, these awards support individual students enrolled in the Master of Landscape Architecture degree program whose thesis or final project integrates human centered planning and design concerns and methods into the research and design process.
Dept/Type: LAND | Award
Quantity/Amount: $4,750
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Eligibility: CED Graduate
The objective of the fellowship is to provide sufficient funds to an outstanding student of the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Berkeley, for significant travel after graduation. The concept of significant travel does not imply geographical extent, but a clear travel objective is essential, and preferably should include at least one cultural milieu different than that of the Fellow.
Students who have received or will have received an B.A. or M.L.A. degree with high academic achievement within the current academic year (2022‐2023) are eligible for the fellowship. They must have completed or plan to complete all requirements, including the thesis, professional project or comprehensive exam studio.
Dept/Type: LAND | Scholarship
Quantity/Amount: $2,000 to $10,000
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The 2023 Thomas Church Memorial Design Competition seeks submissions of studio work from the Fall 2022 & Spring 2023 semesters that exemplify the mission and future potential of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and reveals the capacity of design and research to transform and improve the landscapes we build, inhabit, and share.
Dept/Type: LAND | Award
Quantity/Amount: 2,000
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Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate