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The HMSO is currently accepting applications for the

Milgrom – Student and Post-Doc Research Initiative Grant

The Hymen Milgrom Supporting Organization (HMSO) is pleased to announce a fellowship funding opportunity for UChicago doctoral students and Post-docs.  The HMSO will offer up to 4 awards in this funding cycle for up to $10,000 per year for one or two years.  The submission deadline is April 15, 2025.

The HMSO seeks to expand its support to graduate students and post-docs and is soliciting proposal topics fostering the skills, dispositions, and experiences essential to prepare heterogeneous students for successful pathways into the modern labor market.   The HMSO encourages developing projects relating to coding and computer skills, but funds projects across a broad spectrum of relevant disciplines and divisions.  Projects should focus on the impact of the transitioning economy on youth from the southside of Chicago and on their evolving pathways to employment.

The due date for 2025 applications is April 15, 2025. For more information about this year’s grant competition, consult the Milgrom Student Research Initiative.  Please contact Jodi Khan if you have any questions or to schedule a pre-submission consultation: jodikhan@uchicago.edu

The Hymen Milgrom Supporting Organization (HMSO) funds five programs:

(1) Successful Pathways from School to Work Research Initiative, which supports rigorous inquiry on how educators can become more effective in fostering the skills, dispositions, and experiences essential for success in the modern labor market, as well as society as a whole.  

(2) Milgrom Community Service and Innovation Fellowship for University of Chicago students, focused on helping improve the lives of disadvantaged children and youth in Chicago through education-related community service.

(3) Milgrom Educational Innovation Challenge Grant, which supports University of Chicago organizations in order to enable them to establish a competition for University of Chicago students to design solutions to education-related problems in Chicago and provide students the programming necessary for its success.

(4) Milgrom Computer Coding Fellowship Grant.  This new initiative will be focused on helping improve the lives of disadvantaged youth in Chicago and their opportunities for successful employment by developing their computer coding and programming skills.

(5) The Milgrom Community Based STEM Program. Beginning in 2023 and in partnership with the Bright Star Community Organization, the overarching goal of this program is to provide students with meaningful STEM learning opportunities that will serve as a vehicle for successful pathways to employment.