Awards, Scholarships, Fellowships
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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: LAND
Quantity/Amount: $4,750
Date: Nov 1, 2024
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: ARCH
Quantity/Amount: $7,500 available (split between 1-3 students)
Date: Nov 7, 2024
Eligibility: 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: ARCH
Quantity/Amount: Up to $20,000
Date: Jan 27, 2025
Eligibility: CED Graduate
Honoring exceptional undergraduate work in photography, the Lyon Prize is awarded in memory of writer, artist, photographer, and UC Berkeley administrator Matt Lyon.
Dept: CED
Quantity/Amount: 1st Place: $1000, 2nd Place $300
Date: Mar 4, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
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: CED
Quantity/Amount: Up to $6,000 per student, depending on budget
Date: Mar 4, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
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: ARCH
Quantity/Amount: Up to $2,600 to one recipient
Date: Mar 4, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
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.
Quantity/Amount: $14,250 total, divided between 1-3 recipients
Date: Mar 7, 2025
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.
Dept: LAND
Quantity/Amount: 2,000
Date: Mar 7, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
The Daniel Potter Memorial Fellowship provides support for a graduate student that has demonstrated a genuine commitment to a career in affordable housing.
Quantity/Amount: $2,500 to 1 recipient
Date: Mar 7, 2025
Eligibility: CED Graduate
The Kathy Millhouse Memorial Fellowship provides support for a graduate student that has demonstrated a commitment to work in the areas of housing policy and affordable housing.
Dept: CITY, IURD
Quantity/Amount: $3,000
Date: Mar 7, 2025
Eligibility: CED Graduate
The Stephen Lenci Award supports students following a discipline of study bridging architecture and landscape architecture with an emphasis on history.
Dept: ARCH, LAND
Quantity/Amount: $3,000
Date: Mar 14, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, 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: ARCH
Quantity/Amount: $10,000 (split between 1–2 recipients)
Date: Mar 18, 2025
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: LAND
Quantity/Amount: $2,000 to $10,000
Date: Mar 31, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
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: CITY
Quantity/Amount: Up to $2,500
Date: Apr 3, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate
The Vaughan Scholarship recognizes student leadership and participation in departmental activities. Students must submit an essay that describes their participation in departmental activities and a design project, and have a minimum 3.3 GPA in landscape architecture courses.
Dept: LAND
Quantity/Amount: $3,000 each to 1 Graduate and 1 Undergraduate Student
Date: Apr 4, 2025
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, CED Graduate
The Hester Award recognizes an MLA or Ph.D. student of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning whose work best exemplifies Professor Randy Hester’s lifelong commitment to community participation, sustainability, justice, and beauty. Studio work, professional work, and advocacy work (if graphical in nature) are all acceptable and encouraged, as well as proposed projects.
Dept: LAND
Quantity/Amount: $3,000
Date: Apr 21, 2025
Eligibility: CED Graduate
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: ARCH
Quantity/Amount: $1,500
Date: More Info
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.
Quantity/Amount: $2,000
Date: More Info
Eligibility: CED Undergraduate, 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.
Quantity/Amount: Up to $2,500
Date: More Info
Eligibility: CED Graduate
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: CED
Quantity/Amount: Varies
Date: More Info
Eligibility: CED Graduate