The Mark Mensink award is similar to the Trewartha and both are applied for with the same application form. One Mark Mensink grant is awarded per year to an Honors student working on a promising senior thesis. The award provides an amount equivalent to two semesters of in-state tuition to the student and the equivalent of one semester s tuition to the student s thesis advisor. Also available are Honors Senior Thesis Research Grants for summer work. The grant provides a stipend plus funds for research supplies and expenses.
Applications are available during the spring semester.
Start thinking about a topic for such a project as soon as possible. The deadline, usually in early February, sneaks up on you. If some issue in one of your classes piques your interest, consider it. If you write a short term paper that you'd like to research in greater depth, then you're off to a great start. Do some preliminary research on this prospective topic.