Office of the Provost
Guidelines for Student Research Funds
Goal
To assist student research activities undertaken in collaboration with faculty or closely supervised by faculty.
Application
Each student completes a proposal describing the research activity and the relation of the research activity to his or her education plans and goals. Proposal instructions are outlined below.
The proposal must be signed by the faculty sponsor. The faculty sponsor needs to give special attention to whether or not a budgeted item is necessary for the project, and whether or not it is already available among departmental or campus resources.
Items Funded
The faculty committee will accept proposals for research costs directly associated with the research project and not fundable from other sources. In the past the committee has funded some or all of the costs for surveys, photocopying, demonstrably necessary automobile travel, materials and supplies, purchase of data, computer search time (only when other means of bibliographic research have been exhausted), etc. Students should not request funding for equipment already available in the department. Purchased items (equipment, books, supplies) become the property of Denison University. It is unlikely that airfare would be funded. These funds are not intended to support regular class assignments.
Funding
will not be granted to cover typing charges, photocopying of materials
held in the Denison Library, charges for manuscript duplication, or
production of honors projects. Funding for posters also will not be provided.
Please note that the Denison class of '76 endowed a fund to cover costs of interlibrary loan photocopying for senior research projects. Funding for these costs should be sought directly from the library and not included in this request.
Travel will not be funded without a clear justification. It must be demonstrated that the information cannot be gathered through a computer search, interlibrary loan, or some other local source.
Budget
Each proposal needs to include an itemized budget. The faculty committee has asked that the total figure be broken down into costs for each component. If you are using scales or surveys, you must identify them.
Grant Limits
A grant may not exceed $500.00.
Deadline
Completed proposals are due in the Office of the Associate Provost by Monday, October 8, 2007. Guidelines and application instructions may be picked up in the Office of the Associate Provost, or email [vansicklec] with Slayter box number.
Selection
By a faculty committee representing the academic divisions of the College.
Funding from this account presupposes that normal department sources are not available.
This fund is not a substitute for ordinary departmentfunds.
Proposal Instructions
1. The completed proposal:
- must be typed
- is due in the Office of the Provost, Doane 205 by Monday, October 8, 2007.
2. The proposal should include your:
- name
- slayter box number
- year of study
- department
- signature of faculty sponsor (In signing this proposal, the faculty sponsor agrees that the project is worthy of funding.)
3. The proposal should address the following questions in a maximum of two single-spaced pages:
- Describe your research project. (Include in your description the history of the project, the nature of the project, bibliographical background, methodology [where relevant], and whether or not this research is part of senior research or an honors project.)
- Provide an itemized budget with a budget total.
- State in detail how the funding requested is necessary to the success of your project and explain how the funding will be used. Be specific as possible regarding how the funding will be spent.
- Is this a Senior Research project? Do you expect to convert this research activity to an Honors Project?