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	December 6, 2010


TO:All UVM Undergraduate Students and Faculty

FROM:Richard Galbraith,Chair, Research, Scholarship, and Graduate 
Education Committee
S. Abu Rizvi,Dean, Honors College

RE:URECA!Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Awards

We are very pleased to announce the URECA! program for Spring 2011. 
URECA! (Undergraduate Research Endeavors Competitive Awards) is designed 
to stimulate undergraduate research with faculty mentoring. This 
student-faculty research program encourages students, under the guidance 
of faculty mentors, to incorporate research experiences more fully into 
their undergraduate educations, and provide incentives for the students 
and faculty who engage in these meaningful research collaborations.

URECA! provides funding for research projects in all disciplines, 
including the humanities, the social sciences, and the physical and life 
sciences.All full-time undergraduate students are eligible, and any 
member of the UVM faculty may act as a mentor.Research projects that are 
associated with course credit may be eligible for URECA! funding if the 
proposed project will provide a research component beyond what would 
otherwise be done to earn course credit.

Students submit an application cover page, a 2-3 page narrative 
describing the nature of their research project, budget information, 
their resume, an endorsement by the faculty mentor, and the faculty 
mentor's /curriculum vitae/.The proposal may be an extension of an 
existing research project or one newly developed for URECA! Students who 
have previously received URECA! funds must detail how the proposed 
research differs from and/or extends previously funded URECA! 
research.Detailed information about the application process, including 
guidelines, is available on the web 
athttp://www.uvm.edu/ugresearch/ureca/. Proposals are due by noon on 
Monday, February 7, 2011.

We strongly encourage students involved in animal or human subjects 
research to review the guidelines for ethical treatment of subjects (for 
animals see: http://www.uvm.edu/~iacuc/ <http://www.uvm.edu/%7Eiacuc/>; 
for humans see: http://www.uvm.edu/~irb/ <http://www.uvm.edu/%7Eirb/>). 
Students must be in full compliance prior to submission of the 
application in order to be considered for the program.

The Faculty Senate Research, Scholarship, and Graduate Education 
Committee evaluates the proposals.Proposals are evaluated on the basis 
of quality, the value of the research experience for the student and the 
record of the faculty member.Students selected for the program each 
receive a $1,000 prize and research support of up to $3,000.A detailed 
budget with full justification of all requested research expenses is 
required.

While the Faculty Senate Research, Scholarship and Graduate Education 
Committee will evaluate the proposals and award the scholarships, the 
Honors College will administer the application process and oversee the 
funding of the program. Direct any questions to the Honors College, 
Office of Undergraduate Research at 656-5533 or [log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.


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