Grants & Fellowships

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The Center for Portuguese Studies at UC Berkeley provides a large number of grant and fellowship opportunities to Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. It also provides opportunities for Berkeley faculty to strengthen scientific, academic and cultural ties between UC Berkeley and Portugal.

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Pinto-Fialon Scholarships(Graduate and Undergraduate)

Pinto-Fialon Scholarships (Graduate and Undergraduate)

The Pinto-Fialon Fund was established thanks to the generosity of Arthur Ferreira Pinto and Annette Fialon. UC Berkeley alumnus and chemist Arthur Ferreira Pinto (1901-1991) was originally from Aveiro, Portugal. He emigrated to the US in 1920, working on farms and sawmills in the Sacramento Delta and taking high school courses at night. Pinto entered the University of California, studying chemistry and despite his hardships graduated in 1942, at age 40. He developed and published a method to analyze copra and oilseeds, and invented and...