DuckFunder: Help our UO Dreamer Students Pay for College!

UO Fund the Dream Scholarships
Help our UO Dreamer Students Pay for College!

Help the UO Dreamers Working Group raise scholarship funds for our undocumented and Dreamer students. Every year in Oregon, Dreamer students transition from high school to college to continue their education. Undocumented students, including Tuition Equity and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), do not qualify for Federal Financial Aid. They are also ineligible for many other forms of financial aid that students typically use to fund their education. It is very common for them to take a term off every year to work and raise money for tuition.

Our Dreamers are hard working, bright, determinedDucks!They are just like every other Duck.They have goals of owning their own business, working in our communities, and supporting their families. We believe nothing should stand in their way of a college degree.And though our Dreamer students face many stressors,we can help them graduate! This scholarship aims to provide some financial relief, allowing them to complete their degrees and fulfill their goal of becoming a Duck Alumnion graduation day!

Go to: DuckFunder for Dreamers

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Call for 2018 proposals: CLLAS Summer Research Grants for Grad Students

2019 Call for Grad Proposals Final

 The Center for Latino/a & Latin American Studies (CLLAS) Announces Graduate Student 2019 Summer Research Grants 

In order to encourage and support interdisciplinary graduate student research in the areas of Latino/a and Latin American Studies, CLLAS announces a program for summer research support. We expect to award up to three summer grants for $1,000 each to advance research for either master’s or doctoral candidates. The award will support research-related activities carried out from July 1 through September 30, 2019.∗ We are especially interested in projects that link Latino/a Studies or Latin American Studies with other disciplines. › Continue reading

Graduate Student Grant-Writing Workshop

Jane Grant Room
330 Hendricks Hall

Save-the-Date

CLLAS Professional Development Series

Grant-Writing Workshop for Graduate Students

see also: https://cllas.uoregon.edu/call-for-2018-proposals-cllas-summer-research-grants-for-grad-students/

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Lynn Stephen and Erin Beck among those to receive OVPRI 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards

Erin Beck & Lynn Stephen

July 16, 2018—Lynn Stephen and Erin Beck, two members of the CLLAS Executive Board, are among those whose research will receive 2018 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives awards from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. The program will award up to $50,000 to four UO research teams, described in an article in Around the O: UO researchers awarded grants for interdisciplinary projects

Lynn Stephen, founding director of CLLAS and professor of anthropology, and Erin Beck, associate professor of political science, were selected for “Gendered Justice: Addressing Violence Against Women in Guatemala and the U.S.”

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Education professor Lauren M. Cycyk among first recipients of new UO-OHSU seed funding

Lauren Cycyk

Around the O / June 15, 2018—CLLAS-affiliated faculty Lauren M. Cycyk, assistant professor in Communication Disorders and Sciences in the UO College of Education, is among those announced as a recipient of the new UO-OHSU seed funding.

Cycyk was selected along with Katherine Zuckerman of OHSU for the project “Addressing Disparities in the Assessment and Treatment of Communication Disorders for Young Children from Latino Backgrounds.” 

Lewis Taylor, UO Communications, wrote for Around the O:

“Collaborative research teams examining everything from healthcare-associated infections to carbon nanotubes have been awarded funding to jump-start research projects as part of the 2018 OHSU-UO Collaborative Seed Grant program.

”Ten teams were chosen as part of the program, which creates new collaborations between researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Oregon.”

For the full story, go to “First recipients of new UO-OHSU seed funding announced.” 

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PhD candidate James Daria receives a Food Studies Graduate Research Grant

June 2018—UO’s Food Studies Program announced recipients of its 2018-19 Food Studies Graduate Research Grants, with some additional funds provided by the Graduate School. Among those receiving a grant was James Daria, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology, for his graduate research work: “Modern Slavery in Agricultural Sweatshops along the US/Mexican Border.” Daria has been a recipient of a past Faculty Collaborative Research Grant from CLLAS for producing a multilingual documentary film in collaboration with faculty member Philip Scher, another graduate student, and the farmworkers union Pineros y Campesinos Unidos de Noroeste (PCUN).