Scholarships
Learn about available scholarship opportunities.
Friends of the Center
Deadline: Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025
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Friends of the Center Undergraduate and Graduate Awards are designed to deepen students’ knowledge and understanding about religion, conflict, and/or peacebuilding. The awards are made possible through the generous support of the Friends of the Center, individuals committed to advancing the research and education mission of the Center.
These awards can fund activities such as:
- Research for an honor’s thesis, master’s thesis, or doctoral dissertation.
- Participation in reputable, internationally-oriented training programs in religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.
- Research activities that advance understanding of the intersections of religion and conflict.
Please click the link to learn more the scholarship and to apply.
Applications for the 2026 Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship are due May 15. Scholarship recipients will be notified in mid-July.
Leroy F. Aarons dedicated his life to journalism. He believed that the LGBTQ+ community could advance if the news media fairly and accurately portrayed the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals and their issues. This simple but visionary idea became the foundation for NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. Aarons knew that coverage of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as that of other minority communities, required increasing sophistication and training for journalists. He realized early that improving coverage had to start in the training camps for young journalists – journalism schools at the nation’s colleges and universities.
In NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists’ 15th year, the Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship Award was established to honor Aarons’ memory and to continue the work he began when he founded NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists in 1990. The scholarship award for the 2025-2026 academic year will provide up to $5,000 in tuition funding to an LGBTQ+ student who plans a career in journalism and is committed to furthering NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists’ mission of fair and accurate coverage of the LGBTQ+ community.