Graduate Research Fellowship is coming up soon, on September 16, 2013. This
fellowship, administered through the Graduate College, provides $4000 in
support of graduate student research projects to be carried out in the
Spring and/or Summer semesters which are interdisciplinary in nature, and
the fellowship can be renewed in the same amount for a second year. While
you can read more about this particular research-oriented fellowship and
obtain the necessary application materials at
http://grad.uic.edu/cms/?pid=
aspects of the fellowship here that make it a good fit for students who need
a supplement for already existing research funds or are carrying out a
small-scale project or pilot project that requires a modest amount of
funding.
By interdisciplinary, we mean that the research project involves theory,
methods, and or creative approaches that cross traditional disciplinary
lines, and the student is either carrying out the research in direct
collaboration with, or consulting with, scholars in varying disciplines at
UIC, or the student has significantly incorporated the work of
extra-disciplinary scholars (at UIC or elsewhere) into their research.
This description fits a great number of graduate student research projects
at UIC, and past recipients of the award have been from departments as
diverse as History, Social Work, Economics, Psychology, Education, Biology,
Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry, Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Germanic
Studies, and Community Health Sciences. For example, a student in Social
Work received an award recently for a project that examined the effects of a
music studio space on helping homeless youth in a transitional living
program to cope with stress, research that integrated research in the fields
of social work, communication, psychology, and performing arts. Another
successful applicant from the Psychology Department combined work in the
fields of psychology, biology, neuroscience and psychiatry to explore the
question of whether neurobehavioral biomarkers for depression predict a
family history of psychopathology.
The letter of intent to apply for this award is a very simple form found on
our web site above that requires only a brief description of your project.
The more detailed application, which requires a letter from your faculty
advisor and additional documentation, is due to your program office on
October 7, 2013.
Please contact me at (cherylj@uic.edu) if you have questions about this
award.