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Deadline is
Apr. 15, 2008

The UCO Student RCSA Program

This grant program at UCO is open to students majoring in any discipline or field. This program offers monetary awards on a competitive basis to support student-focused transformative learning. Students who are selected will receive an award of up to $500/semester to support research, creative, or scholarly activities.

Students may also apply for a Research Assistantship. This stipend will pay for research related work for 5 hrs/wk @ $9.75/hr for 16 weeks for one (Fall) or both (Fall & Spring) semesters.

Awards may be granted for the full amount requested or for a lesser amount, depending upon availability of funds and the appropriateness of the amount requested. Awards may be used to support travel to a library, museum, or field site to collect data, to purchase laboratory or project expendables, equipment, or support travel to a local, regional, or national professional conference to present the findings of the funded project. Students must maintain good academic standing with UCO throughout the duration of the award.

Students are eligible to receive funding, under the following conditions:

Have Sophomore, Junior, Senior, or Graduate standing in any field and be enrolled full-time (12 credit hours, undergraduate; 9 credit hours, graduate) at UCO for the duration of the award, with the exception of those graduate students who are enrolled in their final semester before graduation (they must enroll in at least 3 credit hours);
Have a minimum of 2.5 GPA for undergraduate students and 3.0 GPA for graduate students;
If two students wish to collaborate on the same project, they would be required to split the award (payable at a maximum of $250/student);
Each student must have a faculty mentor who is a full-time, tenure-track, or tenured faculty member at UCO; and
Each student is eligible for only a single award during a given semester, but is eligible to reapply for an award each semester as long as they meet all other conditions.