Notre Dame students received grants and research support throughout the Franco Institute’s spring 2026 application season. The institute awarded 156 grants in total, 91 grants for undergraduate students and 65 for graduate students from across 30 programs and departments in the College of Arts & Letters.
The full list of grant programs and recipients are listed below:
Undergraduate Grants and Programs
American Dream Grant
DaVinci Multidisciplinary Grant
Diana M. Sciola Grant
Summer Comprehensive Grant
Undergraduate Public Humanities Internship
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program
American Dream Grant
Annual Research Theme Grant
Graduate Creative and Performing Arts Grant
Graduate Student Research Award
Undergraduate student funding
American Dream Grant
The American Dream Grant Program, sponsored by the Prochaska Family, supports research or creative projects on topics exploring the American Dream.
Solbee Kang (AAHD minor)
Vincent Micheli (History minor)
Grace Mullins (History)
Gouwendmanegre Nikiema (Economics)
DaVinci Multidisciplinary Grant
This grant supports interdisciplinary research that crosses the social science and humanities disciplines with the sciences. It is open to students in the College of Arts & Letters and the College of Science.
Aidan Machado (Japanese minor)
Diana M. Sciola Grant
The Diana M. Sciola Endowment for Excellence supports projects that study the various ways in which the Catholic tradition has influenced art throughout the ages.
Charlie Pehl (History)
Gabriela Sierocka (Italian minor)
Summer Comprehensive Grant
The Summer Comprehensive Grant supports a broad array of Arts & Letters research and creative projects.
Danielle Arno (History minor)
Alfonso Alcaraz Moreno (Economics)
Bartosz Chramiec (History)
Thea Haimari (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Tianyi (Emily) Ji (Economics)
Felipe Nino (Political Science)
Kaeleigh Picco (History)
Esther Prantil-Evans (Anthropology)
Jack Rankin (Classics)
Emma Simard (Psychology)
Annmarie Stallman (English minor)
Mia Valli (History)
Yinglun Zeng (Political Science)
Undergraduate Public Humanities Internship (UPHI)
The Undergraduate Public Humanities Internship is a competitively award internship for undergraduates in the College of Arts & Letters interested in using their expertise to engage with and serve the community.
Elizabeth Coleman (Psychology, Pre-Health) with Reins of Life
Eric Derr (Program of Liberal Studies) with The Studebaker National Museum
Aubrey Keegan (Sociology and Sheedy Family Program) with United Youth Theatre
Jun Wei Lee (History) with La Casa de Amistad
James Thompson (Sociology) with Commonweal
Jasmine Williams (Psychology) with Boys & Girls Clubs of the Northern Indiana Corridor
Rain Zhang (Medieval Studies) with Commonweal
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
UROP exposes undergraduate students to the rigors and rewards of scholarship. Awards include summer fellowship grants and research and materials grants.
Arely Aguilar (Political Science)
Madelyn Alford (American Studies)
Maximilian Amend (English)
Jacob Arulandu (Spanish)
Ashley Avalos (History)
Erin Bauer (Sociology)
Sofia Benigno (Theology)
Lauryn Biondi (Political Science)
Andrew Brooks (Economics)
Jaclyn Camp (English)
Harry Clinton (Psychology)
Anne Coffey (Psychology)
David Cremers (Theology)
Eric Derr (Program of Liberal Studies)
Rebecca Dosch (Anthropology)
Max Dow (Film, Television, and Theatre)
Mary Elliot (History)
Danica Fielding (Gender Studies minor)
Madison Fraizer (Psychology)
Luke Gallagher (Catholic Social Tradition minor)
Lupe Garvey (History)
Natalie Gildea (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Kyla Goksoy (Psychology)
Mariya Grace (Sociology)
Stephanie Hernandez (History)
Liliana Hobday (Sociology)
Marshall Horton (Psychology)
Carson Hruskoci (Spanish)
Maclaen Johnson (History)
Ella Johnson (Spanish)
Julia Kamysz (Economics)
Sandy Kang (Psychology)
Kevin Kelley (Psychology)
Neyra Ledesma (Latino Studies minor)
Maddie Long (Sociology)
Juan Jose López (Film, Television, and Theatre)
Ziyin Lou (Sociology)
Theodore Madden (Anthropology)
Brian Maron (History)
Kimberly Martinez (Sociology)
Thomas Mazzurana (Theology)
Kelly McGlinn (Neuroscience and Behavior)
Maddy McGovern (English)
Jonathan Mendez (Spanish)
Jane Miller (Program of Liberal Studies)
Maeve Miller (Sociology)
Jacob Mills (Theology)
Charlie Morris (American Studies)
Ryan Murphy (American Studies)
Avery Njau (History)
Abby O'Connor (AAHD)
Kate Rafford (American Studies)
Nicholas Rotondi (Philosophy)
Brigid Ryan (Theology and Irish Studies minors)
Mai-Jeanna Sakho (Psychology)
Quinn Sanderson (Sociology)
Carley Sapp (Anthropology)
Noel Shabu (Anthropology)
Peyton Shrader (Anthropology)
James Thompson (Sociology)
Jonah Tran (Classics)
Mark Valenzuela (History)
Samuel Viner (American Studies)
Arjun Wasan (Philosophy)
Alex Young (Political Science)
Ryan Zambrano (Theology)
Yinglun Zeng (Political Science)
Xiaoyu Zhang (Medieval Studies)
Graduate student funding
American Dream Grant
The American Dream Grant Program, sponsored by the Prochaska Family, supports research or creative projects on topics exploring the American Dream.
Josie Cohen (Anthropology)
Anni Gu (Sociology)
Wesley Hedden (Sociology)
Dalia Mota (Sociology)
Luama Moyo (Anthropology)
Manuel Rodriguez (Sociology)
Pixie Shen (Philosophy)
Maria Tinta Segovia (Spanish)
“Attention” Annual Research Theme Grant
Since 2020, the Franco Institute has offered an annual research theme grant to support scholarship "of timely and enduring importance to society." The research theme for 2025-2026 was "Attention."
Abigail Hemmen (Political Science)
Ali Altiok (Political Science)
Gessica de Freitas (Political Science)
Lauren Garner (Psychology)
Aurora Roghair (Psychology)
Prakash B K (Anthropology)
Giulia Maria Gliozzi (Italian)
Fabián D. Maldonado (Sociology)
Insha Bint Bashir (Anthropology)
Jorge Manuel Arredondo Sevilla (Theology)
Melis Gemalmaz (Anthropology)
Tirna Chandra (English)
Jeremi Panganiban (Anthropology)
Graduate Creative and Performing Arts Grant
These graduate grants support projects by Arts & Letters students in the creative and performing arts.
Emma Brooks (AAHD)
Concepción Claude (AAHD)
Lily Dorian (AAHD)
Grace Hancock (Sacred Music)
Kiprop Kimutai (English)
Olivia Koziel (AAHD)
Andrew John Lyon (Music)
Anne Patterson (Music)
Will Strassberger (Theology)
Graduate Student Research Award (GSRA)
Graduate Student Research Awards assist students with expenses associated with conducting research in their fields of study and/or doctoral dissertations.
Jorge Manuel Arredondo Sevilla (Theology)
Thomas Avery (Classics)
Prakash B K (Anthropology)
Kiana Bates (AAHD)
Miguel Blacutt Woolgar (Psychology)
Matthew Coetzee (Sociology)
Sarah DeMarais (Theology)
Mara Egeler (Psychology)
Avery Encalade (Psychology)
Daniel Fajardo Gomez (AAHD)
Barbara Formaggio Domingues (Anthropology)
Amira Freeman (History)
Yu Gao (AAHD)
Allison Hainstock (Economics)
Nurullah Hergul (History)
Zhemin Huang (Sociology)
Han Jiang (Sociology)
Sophie King (Classics)
Matthew Klem (Theology)
Yeonsuk Lee (Anthropology)
Xinyue Liu (Anthropology)
Bruce McCuskey (Philosophy)
Kaylee McEllin (Psychology)
Alejandro Mejía Andrade (AAHD)
Elsa Mueller (Anthropology)
Kushal Nandwani (History)
Xinran Niu (Psychology)
Nipunika Oshadhie Lecamwasam (Anthropology)
Sunghyun Park (Anthropology)
Daniela Parra (Psychology)
Tobias Pydych (Sociology)
Helen Quah (English)
Kenadi Silcox (Sociology)
En-Ya Tsai (Sociology)
Yunyan Zhao (Psychology)