The Fung Fellowship is a model of discovery education at UC Berkeley—an immersive undergraduate learning experience that inspires students to become innovators for social good.
Partnering with the School of Public Health and the Rausser College of Natural Resources, the Fung Fellowship offers two tracks for students to choose from based on their passion, interest, and desired area for impact.
Student Driven Learning
Going beyond the typical flipped classroom model, the fellowship simulates real life and allows fellows to co-design their experience.
Teamwork in Action
Fellows work on diverse teams in an environment that encourages collaboration, exploration, and risk-taking.
Our Founding Principles:
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Diversity
We seek diversity in our fellows to spark new insights and innovations.
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Student Engagement
Each year our fellows co-design and adapt their experience to meet their cohort’s current needs and interests.
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Collaboration
Fellows learn, grow, and work as members of interdisciplinary teams alongside organizations and experts in the field.
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Real World Experience
Fellows develop tech innovations to address real world health and conservation challenges.
Our History
Philanthropist, entrepreneur, and ‘resident troublemaker’ Coleman Fung has never been one to be confined by the status quo. After pushing the boundaries of innovation and engineering with the successful establishment of the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership in 2010, Coleman was once again ready to rework the UC Berkeley student experience.
With Coleman’s vision for revolutionizing undergraduate education, the Fung Fellowship launched in fall of 2016, in collaboration with the School of Public Health and College of Engineering. Coleman sought to create an undergraduate program that embodies the real world and engages students to drive their learning opportunities.
The fellowship offers a sustained innovation + experience with students working in interdisciplinary teams alongside community and industry partners. Throughout the fellowship, fellows develop as leaders and innovators as they design breakthrough technology solutions to society’s most pressing health and conservation challenges.
In 2020, the fellowship launched a new track in conservation, partnering with the Rausser College of Natural Resources and the Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, part of UC Berkeley’s Natural Reserve System.
Our Values
The Fung Fellowship prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
Land Acknowledgement
The Fung Fellowship recognizes that UC Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has, and continues to benefit from, the use and occupation of this land, since the institution’s founding in 1868. Read more about the Ohlone land.