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• Undergraduate Research Support Grant applications now being accepted

  Feb 3, 2017 2:45 pm

  The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) is now accepting applications for the Research Support Grant (RSG). This grant provides students from all disciplines with the funds necessary to conduct research or creative projects during the academic year both on and off campus (including summer terms). Awards will be up to $2,000 and are meant to cover research travel costs, living expenses incurred during academic breaks (i.e., winter break and summer terms, NOT regular semester living expenses), and materials or other ancillary costs.  We hope that this competition will both broaden and deepen the types 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.

  For details and eligibility requirements please visit: http://go.illinois.edu/OUR_RSG

  Deadline for applications will be Wednesday, March 1, at 11:59 p.m.

  Questions may be addressed to ugresearch@illinois.edu

• Spring 2017 Conference Travel Grant Competition

  Jan 30, 2017 10:00 am

• Joint Area Centers Symposium on Governing Globalization – Call for Undergraduate Research Presentation and Poster Proposals

  Jan 30, 2017 9:00 am

  LAS Global Studies would like to invite paper and poster proposals from undergraduate students at the University of Illinois  for the  Joint-Area Centers Symposium on Governing Globalization, organized by the Center for Global Studies (CGS). The symposium will be held on March 31 and April 1. There are two opportunities for undergraduate participation at the event, the first of which is a four speaker panel to be held on Friday, March 31 and the second being a research poster session on Saturday, April 1.  

  Please see the attached Call for Proposals for more information.

  Proposals for papers and posters are due by February 28, 2017.

• Spring 2017 Drop-In Hours for Office of Undergraduate Research

  Jan 23, 2017 9:00 am

• Working with Data for Undergrads! Creating Data Documentation

  Oct 20, 2016 1:45 pm

  Writing project, code, and data documentation doesn’t need to be the worst part of your day. This hands on workshop will give you experience using various types of documentation, discuss strategies for writing documentation, and get you started writing a template for your projects. Bring a dataset you’d like to work with but examples will be provided.

  Join us for this interactive session that will give you concrete answers to your data questions!

  DATE: Thursday, October 27, 2016 from 4-5pm

  Registration is free: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/8203064 

  LOCATION: 314 Main Library - The workshop will be held in the Main Library, Library 314. Take the north stairwell (Armory and Wright Street entrance) to the 3rd floor of the Main Library and make a left at the top of the stairs.

  For more information: http://researchdataservice.illinois.edu/ 

• “Writing an Undergraduate Research Paper” Workshop

  Oct 18, 2016 12:45 pm

  Global Studies will be offering a writing workshop titled “Writing an Undergraduate Research Paper” on Thursday, October 20th from 2pm to 3:30pm in 223 Gregory Hall. This workshop is a part of the LAS Student Success Workshop series and help students write fact-based college-level papers. We will discuss tips to research for class assignments, creating coherent arguments and methods for staying on track with submission deadlines. Students attending this session must bring a term/research paper they have been working on at the time of the workshop.

• Undergraduates, publish your research at Re:Search

  Oct 17, 2016 3:45 pm

  Are you an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois looking to publish your work? Re:Search, the Undergraduate Literary Criticism Journal at the University of Illinois, is seeking submissions for its fourth annual publication! Re:Search is an undergraduate-produced, peer-reviewed online journal that is designed to annually publish works exclusively authored by undergraduate students.

• New Undergraduate Research Support Grant! Applications now being accepted!

  Oct 14, 2016 2:45 pm

  The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) announces its new Research Support Grant (RSG), which replaces the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship-Abroad (SURF-A), and Research Travel Grant. The goals for this new grant are to provide students from all disciplines with the funds necessary to conduct research or creative projects during the academic year both on and off campus (including summer terms). Awards will be up to $2,000 and are meant to cover research travel costs, living expenses incurred during academic breaks (i.e., winter break and summer terms, NOT regular semester living expenses), and materials or other ancillary costs.  There will be two application cycles every academic year – one at the beginning of the Fall semester, and one at the beginning of the Spring semester.

  For details and eligibility requirements please visit: http://go.illinois.edu/OUR_RSG

  Deadline for applications will be Monday, November 14, at 11:59 p.m.

  Questions may be addressed to ugresearch@illinois.edu

• Fall 2016 Conference Travel Grant Competition

  Sep 19, 2016 7:00 am

• Undergraduate Research Opportunity on Bacterial Motility

  Sep 12, 2016 3:45 pm

  The laboratory of Professor Yann Chemla in the Department of Physics is offering an opportunity for an undergraduate to work on a research project on bacterial motility. We work on studying motion of bacteria at both the single cell and population level using sophisticated instrumentation tailored for particular applications. A major focus of our work is on studying how the motion of the bacteria changes in response to environmental cues such as chemicals and light.