Upcoming Events
Circle January 26th on your calendars: this is the date of the opening reception for it’s a dream: Memories of the Cuban Revolution, an exhibition by Ashley Frato ’15 (SFA). The exhibition is the culmination of Ashley’s UConn IDEA Grant project, which examines her family’s experiences of the Cuban Revolution and highlights broader issues of censorship, filtering, and neo-imperialism.
Monday, January 26, 2015 – 5-7 pm – Vais Gallery, Art Building. Exhibition runs January 26-29, 2015.
Ashley was selected as a member of the third cohort of UConn IDEA Grant recipients in Spring 2014. Watch the OUR website in the coming days for the announcement of our latest cohort of grantees, who will be engaging in project work in Summer 2015. The UConn IDEA Grant program supports individual or small group work on meaningful, student-designed projects, whether original research, creative endeavors, service initiatives, or entrepreneurial ventures.
Key Dates
February 2 – Deadline for SURF Applications
February 9-March 9 – Frontiers Application Open
March 16 – Deadline for UConn IDEA Grant Applications (Academic Year 2015-16 Funding)
April 10-11 – Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition
Fall Highlights
Fall was a season of growth in the Office of Undergraduate Research, with a number of exciting developments:
53 undergraduate researchers presented their work at the second annual Fall Frontiers research exhibition on October 29, 2014. The number of posters doubled last year’s count, but the event still offered an intimate environment for the presentation and discussion of student research. We congratulate the student presenters and thank the members of the university community who made up the engaged and enthusiastic audience.
We published our first round-up of the research and creative accomplishments of our undergraduate students. Please join us in celebrating the breadth and quality of their work and encourage your students to report their achievements via our online form for inclusion in a future installment.
After careful evaluation of a record high numbers of applications, 24 SHARE (Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Research Experience) Award teams were selected. These awards offer early-career students research apprenticeships that will build their skills and enable them to explore projects of interest with the support of a faculty mentor. This year, we are especially pleased to count students from the Greater Hartford, Stamford, and Waterbury campuses among our SHARE awardees.
The OUR and the UConn Humanities Institute are partnering in an effort to support and promote undergraduate research in the humanities. The UCHI has generously agreed to fund two student SHARE awards as well as to offer support for humanists’ travel and supply needs via the OUR Travel Award and OUR Supply Award programs. We encourage undergraduate students conducting humanistic research to apply to these programs to secure funding for their academic projects.
We were also excited to name the two teams selected to receive Roper Awards for Research Experience (RARE Awards) for Spring 2015. These faculty-student pairs will conduct research that makes use of the Roper Center’s extensive collection of public opinion data. The OUR gratefully acknowledges the Roper Center’s co-sponsorship of this award program for the past several years as well as key role the Center has played in introducing UConn undergraduates to public opinion research through its internship program.
Caroline McGuire, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Undergraduate Research
860-486-5829
caroline.mcguire@uconn.edu
Return to Enrichment Programs Faculty Update Spring 2015