Research Travel Support Competition
The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) is sponsoring a Research Travel Grant competition for undergraduate students seeking to conduct research outside of the University of Illinois campus. The goals for this initiative are to provide students with funds necessary to conduct on-site research at an archive, lab, research center, museum, or a location that has materials not readily available at UI. The Office of Undergraduate Research recognizes that UI students are conducting cutting edge research on campus, but that funding for research travel is sometimes lacking. We hope that this competition will both broaden and deepen the type of research being conducted by undergraduate students on campus, and that the recipients are able to use this opportunity as a way of engaging with their fields.
Eligibility Requirements:
· Students must be an undergraduate at the time of their research trips.
· Students have to demonstrate that the resources needed to conduct their research are not available at UI.
· The research destination must be outside of the University of Illinois campus.
· Students must be conducting their own research, and therefore cannot conduct research on the behalf of faculty members.
Additional Requirements:
· A faculty member, familiar with the student’s research plans, must provide a letter of support.
· If students use the research as the basis of a presentation at a conference or campus event, there must be an acknowledgement of the Office of Undergraduate Research for its support on the poster or in the paper.
· Students must provide a one page summary of their research project to OUR following the completion of the project.
Funding Restrictions:
· The applications must itemize how the students will spend their time and daily budgets for the duration of the research trips.
· Support for the following expenses is permitted: airfare, mileage, lodging, copying on site, and use of equipment.
· No funding will be provided for meals, making copies at the University of Illinois libraries, or for the purchase of equipment.
· The travel funds will be dispersed on a reimbursement basis only; students must produce receipts for expenses incurred during travel.
Application:
· Applications are available at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/4810618
· There is no deadline for applications, but they must be submitted no later than six weeks prior to the dates of the travel.
Questions? – send queries to ugresearch@illinois.edu
Sincerely,
Office of Undergraduate Research
(Professor Paul F. Diehl, Director)