Eligibility restrictions help ensure wide access to SPRINT Fellowships across the student body, distributing the limited SPRINT funding available in support of more students.

• SPRINT Fellowships are only available to active Brown undergraduate students, who are not currently on leave. 
  • Students who are actively enrolled as part of study abroad or study away are eligible to apply for SPRINT Fellowships for future terms (such that the fellowship begins after their study abroad or study away program has concluded).
  • For Fall and Spring Semester SPRINT Fellowships, you may not be on a leave of absence from Brown either during the semester you apply or during the semester when you would participate in a SPRINT Fellowship.
• A student may not apply or be selected for a semester SPRINT Fellowship with the same host organization or faculty mentor with whom they completed a summer SPRINT Fellowship.
• There is a cap on the number of SPRINT Fellowships a student can receive. Generally, students are ineligible to receive three SPRINT Fellowships. However, there is an exception: a student can receive three fellowships if two of them are Semester Fellowships and one is a Summer Fellowship. 
• Additionally, a student may be ineligible if they did not complete the Stewardship Summer Reflection or did not adhere to the SPRINT Principles during a prior SPRINT Fellowship. 
• Students may not have multiple simultaneous fellowships or receive fellowship funding from other sources at Brown at the same time as a SPRINT Fellowship.

Principles and Expectations

Begin by reflecting on your interests and learning goals so these can guide your exploration of available opportunities and serve as search terms. You can use the SPRINT Search Tool and the Spring 2026 UTRA Opportunities List to explore more than 150 Brown-generated research and teaching opportunities with Brown faculty.

To apply for Spring SPRINT Fellowships, complete these steps by 12pm (noon) ET on Monday, October 6, 2025:

• UFunds registration
  • Register your interest in a SPRINT Fellowship in UFunds (search for “SPRINT Spring Fellowships”)
• Application materials upload to Google Forms
  • Submit your application materials for up to five Brown-Generated SPRINT Fellowships through Google Forms
  • You will apply for individual SPRINT Fellowship opportunities through Google Forms. You will submit one Google Form for each SPRINT Fellowship opportunity that you apply to. You may submit up to five total applications (and thus, five Google Forms) across all SPRINT Fellowships. If you submit more than five total applications for Brown-generated opportunities, you will be asked to select which five applications you wish to move forward. Each SPRINT Fellowship will require a combination of the following application materials:
    • Resume
    • Cover Letter
    • Short answer questions

After the application deadline, you will receive an email request to provide a preferential ranking (via Google Form) of your submitted SPRINT Fellowship applications. The student ranking process will begin no later than October 10 and conclude at 12pm (noon) ET on Thursday, October 30, 2025. If you do not submit your ranking form or do not complete your UFunds registration by this deadline, your applications for all SPRINT Fellowship opportunities will be withdrawn.

If you only applied to one SPRINT Fellowship opportunity, you must still submit the ranking form with your top choice opportunity in order to confirm your continued interest in the program.

You should only rank SPRINT Fellowships that you are willing to accept. If you are matched with a SPRINT Fellowship, you will only receive one match and will not have the option to decline that match in favor of another SPRINT Fellowship. If you decline a match, that SPRINT Fellowship will potentially go unfilled, which is why we strongly encourage you to only rank SPRINT Fellowships you are willing to accept if matched.

For Semester SPRINT Fellowships, faculty review applications through Thursday, October 30, 2025. During this period, you may be contacted to participate in an interview. You should respond promptly to all interview requests and try to schedule interviews before Thursday, October 30.  

If you are not contacted for an interview, that doesn’t mean you aren’t still being considered for a SPRINT Fellowship - while many opportunity hosts conduct interviews with candidates, not every faculty member or organization does so.

If you need help preparing for an interview, please meet with a Peer Career Advisor or a Career Counselor in the Center for Career Exploration.

Your preferential rankings of SPRINT Fellowship applications will not be shared with host organizations, faculty, or review committee members, nor do you need to disclose these rankings as part of the interview process.

Students who have accepted an alternative opportunity outside of SPRINT or wish to withdraw their application from all semester SPRINT Fellowships should submit a withdrawal request form by Monday, November 3, 2025. Submitting this form will withdraw all of your submitted SPRINT applications. If you only wish to withdraw yourself from consideration for one or more specific SPRINT Fellowships while remaining in consideration for others, do not use the withdrawal form. Instead, only rank the opportunities you are willing to accept during the Ranking process.

Choosing to withdraw your SPRINT Fellowship applications will not affect your eligibility to apply to SPRINT Fellowships in future years.  

At the conclusion of the ranking period, student preferential rankings and faculty rankings, together with the SPRINT Principles and Expectations, will be used to make matches. Prioritizing student preferences, all applicants will be matched with 1 or 0 SPRINT Fellowships. In other words, if you do receive a SPRINT Fellowship match, it will only be for one opportunity.  

Match notifications will be sent by November 10, 2025 and students will have until November 24, 2025 to accept a SPRINT Fellowship offer. If you choose to decline your match, you will not receive an alternate match. If you decline your match for a Brown-Generated SPRINT Fellowship, it is possible that the Fellowship will go unfilled, which would be disappointing for the affiliated SPRINT faculty.