UB’s Center for Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities, through the support of the Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, is pleased to offer UB Undergraduate students the opportunity to apply for Undergraduate Research Awards. Application procedures and instructions are attached below. Awards are for University at Buffalo undergraduate students who exhibit a need for funding to overcome barriers that obstruct their ability to perform meaningful research and or creative activities during their undergraduate enrollment at UB. Award applications will be reviewed by a team of UB faculty and staff that will give consideration to completed applications that show a true need for award support to complete projects, pay for supplies, attend conferences or other intrinsic needs that must be overcome to complete a research or creative work. All paperwork and forms attached below must be submitted as part of the completed application packet.
SUBMIT COMPLETE APPLICATION PACKET TO:
CURCA — Undergraduate Research Awards
c/o Undergraduate Academies
17 Norton Hall
University at Buffalo
North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14620
*Only complete application packets will be accepted.
** Complete packets will be stamped received. Applications received after 3:00pm will receive a “received date stamp” of the next business day
Please contact Tim Tryjankowski, Director Center for Undergraduate Research & Creative Activities, with any questions regarding the award application process.
tat@buffalo.edu
(716) 645-7778
**Note Well, for consideration of an award application, the project described MUST be advertised through the CURCA “Research Opportunities” web site. Research Mentors are to submit research opportunity posting via the on-line form found at: http://curca.buffalo.edu/research/research_opportunities.php
FORMS:
Applicant Cover Sheet
Award Application Instructions
Award Certificate of Understanding
The UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) is pleased to pass along some information about an international program that has been organized to recognize, encourage and inspire innovation on college and university campuses. The Collegiate Inventors Competition, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, focuses on students and student groups whose research, discoveries, and inventions are unique and possess the potential to receive patent protection.
Applicants will compete for a Grand Prize of $25,000, a Graduate Prize of $15,000 and anUndergraduate Prize of $15,000. Up to fifteen finalists receive an all-expense paid trip to the final judging round and a $2,000 cash prize per team. To be eligible, a student must be enrolled or have been enrolled full-time in any college or university in the United States or Canada for at least a portion of the 12-month period prior to submission of entry. In the case of a team, at least one team member must meet the full-time eligibility criteria while the other team members must have been enrolled, at a minimum, on a part-time basis for some period during the 24-month period prior to entry.
Entries are judged on the originality and inventiveness of the new idea, process, or technology as well as their level of completeness. The entry must be complete, operable, and well articulated. Entries are also judged on their potential impact or benefit to society (socially, environmentally, and economically), and on the scope of use. More detailed information can be found at www.invent.org/collegiate.
All entries must be submitted on the official application form. The application must include:
- Student Information
- Student Essay, including relevant supporting or supplementary materials (e.g. charts, graphs, CDs, DVDs, slides, samples, etc.)
- Literature Research including a Patent Search and Summary
- Faculty Advisor Information
- Faculty Advisor Letter
- Statement of Student Enrollment Status
- Student/Faculty Advisor Release Form
The deadline for submission is May 16, 2008. If you wish to enter, please visit the website above for more information and be sure to contact STOR ( prv-stor@buffalo.edu or 645-5500) before submitting an application. Additional information about STOR can be found at www.stor.buffalo.edu .
Please feel free to pass this on to your colleagues or students.
Best regards and good luck! UB Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach
(STOR)
prv-stor@buffalo.edu
