TBA (last known deadline was November 2, 2012)
The Undergraduate Research (UR) grants program provides funding for scientists and engineers with established programs of research at non-doctoral departments. Demonstration of productivity is important, but a UR grant may also be used for a project with limited or no preliminary results in a new research area the PI wishes to pursue, with the intention of using the preliminary results obtained to seek continuation funding from other agencies.
Eligibility for a UR grant requires that a PI is in a department without a doctoral program, and that undergraduates are involved in the project. Investigators from Master’s degree-granting departments are eligible, and support can be provided for M.S. level research, but undergraduates must be included in the project. Accordingly, the research being proposed need not be comparable in volume and scope of research in doctoral settings, but it should be of publishable quality, and the research opportunities afforded the students must be of the highest caliber.