For questions regarding small grants proposals, or for more information on projects in a previous cycle, please contact Alianza MX.
Interested in submitting a Small Grants proposal?
Eligibility
PIs may not apply to this call if they have an active research project funded by Alianza MX (e.g., strategic research, Latino studies, joint research, etc.) at the time of their proposal submission. PIs may receive a maximum of two (2) funding awards through this call during 2026. If PIs apply in multiple periods, they must submit a unique proposal in each period.
Funding
Each proposal submission can request up to $5,000 USD in funding for activities scheduled to take place during a specific period (see below). Funds can support a range of travel and event hosting costs but may not be used at Casa de California in Mexico City.
Application
Alianza MX accepts proposals for activities during three periods each year: Fall, Spring, and Summer.
Applications can be received year-round, but proposals for each period will be reviewed immediately after the deadline for that period.
Funding awards are announced approximately 2–3 weeks before the start of each period.
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Timeline
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Spring 2026
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Summer 2026
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Fall 2026
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Application deadline
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December 1, 2025
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March 31, 2026
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July 31, 2026
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Announcement of results
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December 2025
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April 2026
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August 2026
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Activity periods
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January 1–April 30, 2026
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May 1–August 31, 2026
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September 1–December 31, 2026
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Fall 2025 & Winter 2026
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in May 2025 to support activities scheduled to take place between September 2025 and February 2026. Nine (9) proposals from seven UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these activities.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Mexico-US Border Advocacy: Environmental Justice, Immigrant Rights, Disability Justice and Indigenous Rights
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UC Riverside
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Dana Simmons
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Society, Environment & Health Equity
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Riverside
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Simposium Nacional Agrovoltaico
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IPN-CICATA (Querétaro)
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Federico Castillo
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Environmental Science, Policy & Management
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Berkeley
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Sports-Based Intervention Program for STEM, Cognitive, and Socioemotional Learning
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UC Irvine
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Gustavo Carlo
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Education
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Irvine
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Cross-Linguistic Influence in Bilingual Speech & The Acoustics of Bilingual Speech
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UAQ (Querétaro)
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Mark Amengual
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Languages & Applied Linguistics
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Santa Cruz
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Using the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation (COM-B) Model for Behavior Change
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UABC (Mexicali)
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Melody Schiaffino
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Public Health
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San Diego
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Human Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing
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UNAM & ITAM (Mexico City)
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Peter Biehl
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Graduate Division
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Santa Cruz
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Empowering the Next Generation of Infectious Disease Scholars at Rapid Reviews Infectious Disease (RR\ID)
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UC Berkeley
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Stefano Bertozzi
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Public Health
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Berkeley
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Diagrams in Anthropology: An international collaborative art exhibition
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Biblioteca Vasconcelos (Mexico City)
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Tristan Partridge
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Global Studies
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Santa Barbara
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National Congress on Physicochemical, Structure and Design of Proteins
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Sociedad Mexicana de Bioquímica (Zacatecas)
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Victor Muñoz van den Eynde
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Bioengineering
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Merced
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Spring & Summer 2025
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in October 2024 to support activities scheduled to take place between March and August 2025. Eight (8) proposals from seven UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these activities.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Mexican Spanish and the UC Systema
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UC Riverside
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Covadonga Lamar Prieto
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Hispanic Studies
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Riverside
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Water, environment, agriculture, and migration in the Mexicali Valley, Baja California
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UABC (Mexicali)
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Hugo Loaiciga
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Geography
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Santa Barbara
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Juan Bruce Novoa Mexican Studies Conference
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UC Irvine
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Jacobo Sefamí
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Irvine
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Literature and Society: On the Crónica as a Discursive Form and a Social Practice of Writing and Reading
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UNAM (Mexico City)
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Juan Poblete
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Literature
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Santa Cruz
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WELLSPRING Bioregional Regeneration Conference
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Tijuana
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Keith Pezzoli
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Urban Studies
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San Diego
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Trinational Exchange for the Defense of Native Maizes in the Maya Lowlands
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UNAM (Mexico City)
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Liza Grandia
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Native American Studies
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Davis
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Aguilas, an award-winning short documentary film
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Feria Internacional de la Lectura Yucatán (Mérida)
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Maite Zubiaurre
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Los Angeles
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Migrant World-Making in the Central/North American Migration Corridor
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UC Davis
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Robert McKee Irwin
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Davis
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Fall 2024 & Winter 2025
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in May 2024 to support activities scheduled to take place between October 2024 and March 2025. Four (4) proposals from three UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Narratives of Loss and Repair: Mexican Literature and Species Extinction
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UC Davis
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Emily Vázquez
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Davis
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Research on Heritage Spanish Speakers in California
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UDG (Guadalajara)
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Mark Amengual
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Languages & Applied Linguistics
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Santa Cruz
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UADY-UCSC Research Collaboration Workshop
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UADY (Mérida)
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Matt Sparke
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Global & Community Health
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Santa Cruz
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Mini Symposium on the Biomedical Potential of the Newly Discovered Marine Plantactinospora
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UC San Diego
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William Fenical
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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San Diego
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Spring & Summer 2024
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in December 2023 to support activities scheduled to take place between April and September 2024. Twelve (12) proposals from eight UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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The Social Relations of Mexican Commodities in the Twenty-First Century
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CIESAS Pacífic Sur (Oaxaca)
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Casey Walsh
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Anthropology
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Santa Barbara
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One Health: Challenges and Perspectives in Yucatán
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UNAM (Mérida)
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Charles Chiu
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Laboratory Medicine
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San Francisco
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Isolating the Causal Effects of Extreme Heat and Covid-19 on the Labor Supply of Migrant Workers in California
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UC Santa Barbara
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David Lopez-Carr
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Geography
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Santa Barbara
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UC INAH Digital Heritage Summit
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UC San Diego
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Dominique Rissolo
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Qualcomm Institute
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San Diego
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4D Printing: Explorations of Time, Space, and Performance in Contemporary Digital Labor
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UDG (Guadalajara)
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Jesse Colin Jackson
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Art
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Irvine
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Conference to Promote Research Collaboration between UCSC and UABC
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UABC (Ensenada)
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John MacMillan
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Office of Research
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Santa Cruz
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Transborder Approaches to Neglected Tropical Disease
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UC Santa Cruz
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Lily Balloffet
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Latin American & Latino Studies
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Santa Cruz
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Shared Challenges in Physics
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UAM (Mexico City)
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Linda Hirst
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Physics
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Merced
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Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social: Summer Institute
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UNAM (Oaxaca)
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Mayra Puente
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Education
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Santa Barbara
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International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences
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Mexico City
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Ozcan Gulacar
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Chemistry
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Davis
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Enhancing Global Research Cooperation through Student Mentorship Program at Rapid Reviews Infectious Disease (RR\ID)
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UC Berkeley
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Stefano Bertozzi
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Public Health
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Berkeley
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las preciosas insignificancias
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UC San Diego
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Susan Narucki
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Music
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San Diego
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