Each fall, the Center for Research Services makes available funds for undergraduates interested in conducting a research project during that year's fall and spring semesters. Projects from any research discipline are considered. The research project must be the student’s work, with a faculty member involved in all stages of the research.

A complete submission consists of a two and a half page application and an attached letter of recommendation from the faculty sponsor/mentor.

Applications are generally due in early October. The maximum award is $2,500. Stipend, salary, travel, personal computers and tuition are not allowable costs. Students typically request funds for services, equipment, software, chemicals and other supplies.

All awards are based on the following criteria:

·        quality of work plan

·        scientific and technical merit

·        feasibility

·        faculty recommendation

·        student GPA and standing is considered to a lesser degree.  

Selections are made by the vice chancellor for research, who may request input from selected reviewers. Funds must be spent by March 1.   The business office at the student’s department or institute will manage the awards.

Conditions of an Award: Prior to receiving an award, all students funded under this program must complete Responsible Conduct in Research training. To register for this, contact fycomp@uaf.edu. Should the project involve animal subjects, human participants, radiation or biohazards, the student and his/her mentor must be listed on the approved protocol that covers the scope of the work undertaken and must have completed all required training.  

Each successful applicant must also participate in the annual Undergraduate Research Symposium during the spring semester and electronically submit a brief (3-5 pages) report on the project no later than March 15.   Abstracts, reports, and pictures of the student and faculty mentor may be published on the web or in university publications promoting undergraduate participation in research.

For more information contact Jenn Wagaman at 474-5082 or jewagaman@alaska.edu.

Miriam Leah Braun: Reconstructing climate change using isotope records from concretions found at Gold Hill

Jeff Bue: Arsenic Absorbtion in Vegetables

Fawn Carter: An Examination of Osseous Materials form a Meat Cache at Kukulik

Kathryn Cessnun: Individual and Environmental Level Predictors of a Heart-Healthy Diet among Emerging Adult Men

Jasmine Davis: When is it time to hibernate?

Alvin Deighton: Study of Ethanol Combustion in Arctic Climate

Michael Golub: Measuring composition of biofuels emissions by-products in the subarctic environment

Joshua Holbrook: Development and Benchmarking of Optical Touchscreen User Interface Technology

Peter Illig: Detrital 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology of Modern Glacial Outwash Sediments: Constraints on Exhumation Patterns  and History Along The Denali Fault of the Eastern Alaska Range

Tristan Kitchin: An Investigation of the Vibro-Acoustic Properties of a Cold Interface

Jessica Peterson: Aspects of Prehistoric Land and Resource Use at the Chugwater Site

Melissa Rhodes-Reese: Effects of diet and habitat on the coloration of hatchery-reared juvenile Paralithodes camtschaticus

Hollie A Wynne: Morphological comparison of claws between Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos) and American Black Bear (Ursus americanus): their potential as forensic evidence