Each semester, the Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (RSCA) office offers the Academic Year Undergraduate Research Experience (AYURE) grant to support faculty-mentored student scholarship.
AYURE Program Funding
- Up to $750 for supplies, participant payments, etc. to carry out the project. For more details, see our chart of purchase types allowed by each RSCA grant.
Eligibility
These competitive grants are open to all undergraduate students and their full-time faculty mentors.
Projects must satisfy these core criteria:
- Through one-on-one training from the faculty expert, the project extends the student’s learning and professional development beyond what is possible in the classroom.
- Projects are also intensive, taking the semester or longer to complete. Mentors should meet at least weekly with their student to discuss progress and problems that arise during the semester.
- The student is involved at a high level in multiple phases of the project.
Most projects involve only one faculty mentor and one student. But we have occasionally supported larger projects with two faculty mentors and/or two students.
AYURE Application
- Spring 2023 AYURE Application (word)
- FALL 2023 APPLICATIONS WILL BE POSTED IN SUMMER
You might find it useful to study the AYURE Proposal Evaluation sheet (pdf) used by the review committee.
Samples of Prior Proposals (pdfs)
- SUREexample_Arts; SUREexample_Arts2
- SUREexample_Biological Sciences; SUREexample_Biological Sciences2
- SUREexample_Humanities; SUREexample_Humanities2
- SUREexample_Social Sciences; SUREexample_Social Sciences2
*These sample proposals were for our summer grant (SURE). That application is very similar to the AYURE one. Each was considered strong by the RSCA Board, though, of course, none are flawless. Note that the application questions in these older samples might be slightly different than those on the current application.
Congratulations to all Spring 2023 AYURE award recipients!
Anthony, Mireya (Biology), '24
Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology)
Project Title: Large Plasmid Isolation and Sequence Analysis
Wood, Caz (Chemistry and Psychology), '24
Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry)
Project Title: Spectroscopic Studies of Chiral Molecular Recognition
Fisher, Trevor (Cellular Biology), '24
Faculty Mentor: Maureen Morrow (Biology)
Project Title: Whole Genome Sequence Analysis of Bacterial Isolates
Grodin, Ryan (Chemistry), '25
Faculty Mentor: Frantz Folmer-Andersen (Chemistry)
Project Title: Stereoselective Alkylation of DACH-based Diimines
Mohrmann, Summer (English), '24
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Woods (English)
Project Title: Narrative Reclamation and the Therapeutic Application of Story
Novogrebelsky, Brina (History & English/Creative Writing Concentration), '23
Faculty Mentor: Michelle Woods (English)
Project Title: Post-Soviet Jewish Milieu: An Exploration of Immigrant Literature by Jewish Women from the Former Soviet Union
Reymann, William (Theatre), '24
Duggan-Haas, Kiana (Theatre and Linguistics)
Faculty Mentor: Tony Speciale (Theatre Arts)
Project Title: Smaller This Year
Speranza, Lucia (Biology and Psychology), '23
Faculty Mentor: Miles Wilklow-Marnell (Chemistry)
Project Title: Swapping Arsenic into Phosphorous Based Ligands for Dehydrogenation Catalysts: Poison or Promising?
Vaynerchuk, Alex (Theatre Arts), '23
Faculty Mentor: Tony Speciale (Theatre Arts)
Project Title: Love in All Its Glory
Yosef, Harel (Mechanical Engineering), '24
Faculty Mentor: Mahdi Farahikia (Engineering)
Project Title: Nature-Inspired Flow-Sensing Microphone Technology
