UNT Undergraduate Research Fellowship Opportunity

UNT Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Have you ever wished to conduct guided research in your field of study, gaining invaluable experience, unique credentials, and a faculty champion? If so, read on to learn how you can apply this spring (by March 31, 2018) to earn a 2018-2019 Undergraduate Research Fellowship placement.

In 2016 the Offices of the President, Provost, Vice President for Finance and Administration, and Vice President for Research and Economic Development—in collaboration with the Dean of TAMS and the Honors College—announced an initiative to enhance academic excellence via the expansion of mentor-based undergraduate research across all disciplines and their curricula. They collectively pledged funds for a good number of Undergraduate Research Fellowships, each valued at $500. Those fellowships will reward students who enter—and show promise of significantly contributing to—faculty-led research environments. Such research will occur in a host of settings—whether in labs, on teams (in interaction with faculty and their graduate research assistants), or under individual faculty mentorship across the disciplines, including the creative arts. These students, in joint petition with their professorial research mentors, will undertake competitive application for a UNT Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF). In cases where faculty mentors already have grants to cover the cost of student assistants, the student may become an Undergraduate Research Fellow, but without further remuneration. Other students will receive a $500 award after participating in the Scholars Day event (see below) that corresponds to the year of their fellowship. (Thus, 2017-2018 URF winners, named last summer, will participate in the April 2018 Scholars Day). To assure adequate commitment to a research project, this year’s eligibility will be limited to freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, in addition to seniors who will not graduate prior to May 2019. They will therefore be able to participate in the April 2019 Scholars Day and receive the $500 fellowship directly into their UNT accounts.
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