Undergraduate Research Fellowships Guidelines
Application Deadlines:
Round 1 October 1st
Round 2 February 1st
The Walter Maxwell Gibson endowment will fund fellowships to conduct research projects. (funding for student wages)
The L.S. and Aline W. Skaggs Research Endowment will provide funding for research materials. (consumables, sample testing, supplies, travel to collect data, etc.)
The awards are highly competitive and must meet the following conditions:
1) The research or project must make an original intellectual or creative contribution to a discipline within the Walter Maxwell Gibson College of Natural Sciences.
2) Every application requires a student researcher and a faculty mentor. The PI must be a major within the college, and the faculty mentor must be from the college.
3) Projects using human or animal subjects must obtain appropriate IRB or IAUCUC approval prior to applying, with proof of approval submitted to patriciapalmer@suu.edu.
4) The receipt of funding requires presenting the research findings at one on-campus level event and one regional, state, or national level event, the most common venues are listed below:
State-Level Events: Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) or Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
5) A research report must be completed by the student researcher within one month of the completion of the project.
6) Project funding is limited to two semesters.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship Application
Once a PI application is submitted it will be sent to the mentor faculty to review, along with a link to a google form that needs to be completed by the faculty mentor. Faculty do not need to submit an initial letter of support- instead, they will respond to specific questions in the Google Form.
Co-PI Application must be completed by any/all Co-PI's on a project or their portion of hourly wages will not be considered by the review committee. A Co-PI is not required.