The Department of Biological Sciences is providing monetary research awards for undergraduate students.  Research projects must be supervised by a Department of Biological Sciences faculty or staff member.  However, the application must be written by the student. A student may request funds for any activity related to the research that occurs during the current fiscal year (e.g., equipment and supply purchases, publication page charges or meeting travel expenses).  Page charge and meeting expense funding requests must show that obtaining other means of funding was attempted, but the options were unavailable (such as page charge waivers from the publishers or funding from other grants).  Awards are limited to $200 and individual students may receive only one undergraduate research award per fiscal year (unless surplus funds are available).  If the overall cost of the proposed project exceeds $200, the proposal must state how the remainder of the necessary funds will be obtained.  Students whose research is funded must fill out a research summary report form by the end of the funding year.
 

The Undergraduate Research Award Application is available here. (MSWord)

The Undergraduate Research Award Summary Report form is available here. (MSWord)

Undergraduate Research award applications should be submitted to Dr. Paul V. Switzer, Department of Biological Sciences before the following deadlines:

                  FY 2007-2008                               Application Deadline 5PM!

                  Round 1                                       November 12, 2007

                  Round 2                                       March 31, 2008

For more information, contact Dr. Paul V. Switzer