Make sure students you are sponsoring follow these new guidelines. The Office of Research and the University Graduate School is pleased to announce the fall competition for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Grants. Such a research and mentoring experience is not only one of the best ways to foster future excellence in research and creative activity, but also one of the best ways to provide undergraduates with an individually-defined capstone for their undergraduate education.
All undergraduates are eligible to apply.
On the application form, the student should explain in his or her own words, in language sufficiently clear to be understood by a lay audience, the background and significance of the research, the specific hypotheses to be explored, and the methods to be used. A representative faculty committee will decide on the final awards, which will be announced by the end of the spring semester. Students will thus be able to begin their research during summer or fall 2001, and each will be expected to submit a final report of roughly 500 words at the completion of the project. We will consider proposals for research projects beginning in the spring 2002 next fall.