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Student Eligibility

• Be enrolled and major in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
• Identify and establish a relationship with a faculty mentor who will support the application and guide the proposed research throughout the award period.
• Be officially enrolled as a full-time undergraduate student and remain full-time throughout the award period.
• Have completed at least 24 credit hours by the time the award period begins.
• Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 at the time of application.
• Be in good standing at the time of the application and remain in good standing throughout the award period.
• Not a previous LASURI recipient (students who have already received two semesters of LASURI funding are not eligible to apply again).

Faculty Eligibility

• Faculty mentors may hold tenure-line, clinical, emeritus, or research appointments. Graduate and Teaching Assistants may not serve as faculty mentors.
• Faculty from all colleges are welcome to participate in LASURI, but preference is given to faculty members who hold an appointment or official affiliation with an LAS department.
• Faculty may support more than one LASURI application but will be asked to rank their applicants.

Student Questions

General Background

1. What discipline most closely aligns with your research project: Humanities, Natural Science, Social Science, or Interdisciplinary?
2. Please describe any coursework, experiences, or skills to help you complete your project.

Project Description

1. What is the title of your research project?
2. What is your primary research question, hypothesis, or activity (annotated bibliography, archival work, etc.)?
3. Explain why your research question or activity is significant from a scholarly or policy perspective. For example, does your project explore, analyze, or test a new, uncontested, or contested theory? Does it add to or challenge present scholarship? Does it examine a question or topic that has not been answered or merits further study?
4. Based on the current research or literature on your topic, identify one example of a scholarly work (article, book, or recorded lecture) that is meaningful and describe/explain its significance for your project.
5. What research method or approach (STEM experiment, quantitative, qualitative, mixed) do you plan to use to answer your research question, test your hypothesis, or meet the goals of your activity? Please explain your process.
6. When considering your post-graduation plans, explain how a LASURI experience will help you achieve your educational or professional goals.

Project Logistics

1. Will your project run for one or two semesters? If your project runs for two semesters, briefly describe the research steps you plan to complete each semester.
2. If you presently work on your proposed project as a research assistant, please describe how receiving a LASURI scholarship will allow you to continue or expand on your research.

Identify your Faculty Mentor

1.  Provide the name of the faculty member who has agreed to serve as mentor for your project.
2. Explain why you are interested in working with this faculty mentor and/or why they are the best person to support your project.

Faculty Questions

1. How closely did the student work with you on developing the proposed research project? Very closely, fairly closely, minimally, not at all.
2. How strongly do you support this application? Very strongly, strongly, moderately, weakly, not at all.
3. Will you able to work closely with and mentor the student during the proposed duration of the LASURI scholarship? Or will the student mostly with other parties (TAs, GAs, Fellows)? Or both? Please explain.
4. Please describe why the student’s project merits a LASURI scholarship.
5. Please explain why you would like to work with the student.
6. Please explain if the student’s proposal describes an original independent project. Or, otherwise, how the project contributes to your existing research or laboratory project.
7. If you are sponsoring more than one LASURI application, please IDENTIFY AND RANK the students you are willing to mentor.
8. LASURI awards selected faculty mentors a one-time $500 stipend to assist with students’ project costs. Please provide a CFOAP account number where the funds may be transferred.

To maintain LASURI standing, students must:

• maintain an active and productive research partnership with their faculty mentor throughout the award period.
• conduct research and submit their work to the faculty mentor for feedback.
• maintain good standing and full-time status.
• present their research findings in a public forum.
• submit a final research abstract for the LASURI abstract archive.