Applications are open for two research grants from the Colorado State University Libraries, with deadlines in early 2024.

Both grants are available to anyone, anywhere doing research on water resources or feminist topics that would benefit from access to the collections.

The Water Scholar Award helps offset the expenses of researchers engaged in studies that will benefit from access to the holdings of the Water Resources Archive as well as costs associated with presentations, publications or other products resulting from that research. Applications for the Water Scholar Award are due Jan. 31, 2024.

The Friedman Feminist Press Research Grant supports research projects that focus on historical research and documentation projects resulting in dissertations, publications, exhibitions, educational initiatives, documentary films or other multimedia works. Applications for the Friedman Feminist Press Research Grant are due Feb. 9, 2024.

About the Collections

The Water Scholar Award could not exist without the Water Resources Archive, which holds extensive collections of information on water resources in the western U.S. Collections spotlight individuals and organizations that have been instrumental in the development of water resources in Colorado and the West. Primary materials relate to all aspects of water in Colorado and to contributions made by Coloradans to water activities.

The Friedman Feminist Press Research Grant is named in honor of June Friedman, a former CSU student who led a feminist movement at the university and passed away shortly after graduating. The Friedman Feminist Press Collection features original sources in feminist/lesbian literature and second-wave feminism, multi-genre works of fiction, poetry, memoir and essays by feminist publishers of the 1970s and 1980s.

Past recipients

Water Scholar Award

• 2022: Ryan Hearty, doctorate student at Johns-Hopkins University, water quality.
• 2023: Holly Roth, doctorate student at University of Colorado Boulder, water evaporation.
• 2023: David Vail, associate professor at the University of Nebraska Kearney, crop safety and disaster relief.

Friedman Feminist Press Collection Research Grant

• 2021: Kianna Middleton, assistant professor at Dartmouth College, feminist literature on black and disabled women.
• 2022: Shane Snowdon, LGBTQ+ advocate and author, second-wave lesbian feminism.
• 2023: Elizabeth Groeneveld, assistant professor at Old Dominion University, transgender women’s relationship to feminism.