CSTEM Undergraduate Research Fellowships
Application Deadlines: Fall, October 1st, Spring, February 1st
The Walter Maxwell Gibson Endowment funds fellowships to conduct research projects (funding for student wages).
The L.S. and Aline W. Skaggs Research Endowment provides funding for research materials (consumables, sample testing, supplies, travel to collect data, etc.).
The awards are highly competitive and must meet the following conditions:
- The research or project must make an original intellectual contribution to a discipline within the Walter Maxwell Gibson College of STEM.
- Every application requires a student researcher and a faculty mentor.
- The student researchers must be from a major within the college, and the faculty mentor must be from the college.
- Projects using human or animal subjects must obtain appropriate IRB or IAUCUC approval before applying, with proof of approval submitted to gibsonfellowships@suu.edu.
- The receipt of funding requires presenting the research at one on-campus event and one off-campus:
- Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research (UCUR) or Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.
- WMG CONS Research Symposium (fall) or Festival of Excellence (spring).
- A fellowship report must be completed by all student researchers within one month of the completion of the project.
- Project funding is limited to two semesters.
A list of questions from the PI application has been provided for support when research teams are preparing to apply. The file is view only, research teams will need to copy the file before editing.