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The 2026–28 Civic Science Fellows cohort will launch in September 2026. As 2026–28 host partners open applications for Fellows, we will share them here and in our monthly newsletter (see below to sign up). Envisioned as a Civic Science Lab, Fellows and partners carry out pioneering work to co-create pilots, partnerships, knowledge, models, and new ways of working that can help seed collaborations between science and society. All Fellows will engage as a cohort in a learning program and community, developed in collaboration with the network and an interdisciplinary committee of advisors.

The Data Science Institute at Brown University invites applications for a 2026-28 Civic Science Fellow to help bridge foundational research in computational brain science with public engagement and community impact. Hosted by the NSF AI Research Institute on Interaction with AI Assistants (ARIA) dedicated to the joint scientific study of AI and human cognition with a focus on mental and behavioral health, the Fellow will develop and lead a research project connecting ARIA’s core scientific workstreams — cognitively-inspired AI, trustworthy human-AI interaction, or AI alignment — with ARIA’s participatory design workstream. Learn more and apply here. 

Supported by the Civic Science Fellows program funding partners, with funding from (list in formation): Rita Allen Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Civic Science Funders Collaborative, Dana Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Feld Family Initiative for Civic Science Communication at the Boston University College of Communication, Freedom Together Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, Morgridge Institute for Research, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Kavli Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation.