Friday, August 21, 2009
Endeavor Awards offer more funding to students and faculty
The Endeavor Awards for Research and Creativity are replacing the Research, Innovation, Scholarship, Creativity (RISC) program. "The Endeavor Awards for Research and Creativity is a funding program across all disciplines with more muscle than its predecessor," said Dr. Jim Durbin, associate professor of geology, who directs the program with the assistance of Dr. Brian Posler, assistant provost for Undergraduate Studies. "The funding available to support individual work has increased for all projects. The new program also has removed several restrictions on how funding may be spent, including an option that allows student to be paid to work on the project. A new option has been added to allow for faculty to more easily incorporate students into their academic research areas by allowing faculty to be the primary author on the proposal, provided students are brought into the project." Two funding options plus travel grants The program offers two categories of research and creative work grants. - With awards up to $2,500, students can be principal researchers, authors, artists, playwrights, or creative directors under the guidance of a faculty member. - Grants up to $4,000 are available for faculty as primary researchers who receive meaningful involvement from students. Students have to make substantial contributions to the research by presenting at a conference or being listed as co-author on publications. Endeavor's Presentation Award offers travel grants of up to $1,000 to help defray the transportation and hotel costs students can incur when they are presenting their research or creative projects at professional and academic meetings. First Friday deadlines Applications for the funding research proposals will be accepted throughout the year. Submissions will be due at 4:30 p.m. on the first Friday of September, October, November, December, February, March, and April. Applications forms are available online at www.usi.edu/endeavor. Hatch a New Idea promotion "A marketing effort is underway across campus to generate interest in the program," said Durbin. "You'll see the 'Hatch a new idea' marketing message and the new Endeavor Awards logo on posters, the USI web site, and in advertising across campus. "As the promotion suggests, 'Hatching poultry from an egg is routine, but hatching a robotic chicken from a golden egg is worth exploring.' We want students and faculty to participate and enter their new ideas for the Endeavor Awards." Endeavor Awards will sponsor an undergraduate research symposium in April of each year. Student researchers, faculty sponsors, faculty researchers, and students contributing to faculty research have the opportunity to present their completed work at the event. Durbin said, "Anyone who has done research or creative works of any kind, regardless of whether or not they have received monetary support from the Endeavor Awards is encouraged to present their effort at the Endeavor Undergraduate Research Symposium," said Durbin. "Of course those who do receive funds are required to present their work," he added. The web site at www.usi.edu/endeavor offers more information about the qualifications for grant proposals and presentation awards. The first application deadline for Endeavor Awards is September 4, 2009 the next is October 2, 2009. |
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