The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program competitively funds individual requests by a student/faculty teams to support undergraduate student involvement in faculty research. The main emphases of the awards will be for student salaries and travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional meetings and conferences. Students should contact individual faculty members for undergraduate research projects. Either faculty or students can initiate projects but the proposal must be written by the student. A faculty/student team must apply by the deadline given below for the semester in which the funds are requested.

Deadline for Fall 2012 awards is Friday, May 18.

Students wishing to work at GTRI may also apply with a Research Scientist. (NOTE: Many GTRI labs may require U.S. citizenship). Students should be in good academic standing when they apply.

Students may apply for $1500 (max) salary awards or $1000 (max) travel awards. Students are eligible for only one successful salary award per academic year, but may apply for travel awards within the same academic year.

Applying for PURA

PURA is offered every semester. When applying for PURA, use the link to the online form below and once submitted, will generate an email to your listed faculty mentor prompting him/her to submit a recommendation letter. An application is considered complete once both an application and an email from the faculty mentor has been received. Application deadlines are listed below.

Deadlines for travel awards

Travel applications are accepted at anytime during the semester in which the award would be used, beginning with the traditional application due date listed above and ranging until at least on month prior to your trip. Please wait to submit an application until your paper or poster has been accepted at the conference.