Qualifications and Expectations

Student applicants must have a cumulative 3.0 grade point average at the time of application. Sophomore standing (23/25 or more hours passed) is required by the time the research project begins.

Time and Credit Guidelines

Fellows will be expected to engage in research fully across a 10 - week period. It will not be possible to enroll for any summer sessions' courses while working as a summer fellow. Each candidate is invited to apply for support for on campus housing. The fellowship will cover one - half of the charge for a double room across both summer terms.

Students applying for grants this year must submit completed applications by no later than March 17. The committee may consider applications after this deadline but the full spectrum of benefits may not be available to those applicants.

Proposal instructions:

  1. Students and faculty can seek out one another to discuss and possibly develop a research proposal of mutual interest;
  2. Students and faculty can place ideas for potential research projects on the ideas exchange section of the Fellowship's web page;
  3. Students and faculty can contact members of the Fellowship committee with ideas about possible projects; committee members can suggest ways to link up with a potential research partner.

More information and forms for writing the proposals are available. Completed proposals should be presented to Dean Hale in the Office of the Dean of Summer Sessions, 125 Reynolda Hall. The Research Fellowship Committee will review each proposal, and the student and his or her faculty collaborator will be notified of its disposition. Should modifications of a proposal be called for, the participants will be so notified.

As an integral part of the program, each Fellow will be required to submit to the Committee a project-ending piece of work. These concluding pieces may come in various forms: a poster, a written report, a visual report, an artistic production to include art pieces, theatrical productions, computer-based productions, pieces of creative writing, and so forth. These projects must be submitted to Dean Hale's Office, 125 Reynolda Hall, as soon as possible after the research period has ended. In no case should the submission period for the completed projects extend beyond a six-week span.