SRS Diversity Membership Scholarship

About this program

Sleep Research Society (SRS) offers the SRS Diversity Membership Scholarship to support trainees from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and countries by covering two years of SRS membership and encouraging participation in the annual SLEEP meeting; recipients are also eligible for additional SRS trainee awards (e.g., Diversity Travel Award, Trainee Merit Awards). Eligible applicants are trainees only (high school, undergraduate, graduate, medical students, medical residents, fellows, and postdoctoral fellows); individuals with a faculty appointment or whose lab/mentor/institution will cover membership costs are ineligible. Applicants must embody one or more dimensions of diversity as defined by the SRS DEI mission and submit a required statement (≤2,500 characters/500 words) describing eligibility, career plans in sleep and circadian research, barriers the award will mitigate, and plans to engage with the SRS community over the next two years. The 2026 application cycle is noted as open in the announcement, but specific submission deadlines and contact details were not provided.