Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research Fellowship (FMURF)
Latinx Research Center, UC Berkeley
Academic Year 2025-2026
We are excited to present our 2025-2026 Latinx Research Center (LRC) Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research Fellowship (FMURF) fellows! The program ran from AY 20-21 to AY 25-26. It paired over 56 faculty mentors with undergraduate students of their choice. The mentors came from various fields, including social sciences, humanities, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
This was FMURF's fifth and final year, having disbursed $550,000. Each year, eleven students received $9,600 stipends to support their research assistance during the fall, spring, and summer semesters.
Throughout the program, faculty mentors met with student fellows at least biweekly. The student fellows assisted their mentors with one or more research projects, helping them develop research skills, critical thinking, and intellectual creativity.
The 26-27 FMURF Cycle was completed at the end of the Spring 2026 semester, with an End-of-Academic Year Symposium hosted by the LRC where faculty-student teams publicly presented their research. The teams were required to submit a 5-page paper or capstone project by Summer 2026.
Below are the AY 2025-2026 FMURF Recipients and their research projects. Click on each project title for a more detailed overview of their research.
