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Awards and Funding

The Honors College may provide up to $1,000 to offset costs associated with a student’s research or creative project. This is a competitive process and will be determined by the quality of submissions and availability of funds.

Requirements

  • Applicants must be currently enrolled in the Honors College.
  • The proposal must be approved by the student’s faculty research advisor before submission.
  • Scholarship application, budget form, and any supporting documents must be submitted electronically.
  • Projects involving human subjects, vertebrate animals, or recombinant DNA require prior approval by the FIU Institutional Review Board.
  • The research project must be presented at the Undergraduate Research Conference at FIU in the Spring.

Application Process

  1. Submit a justification for each item in your proposed budget. Only items approved as allowable costs can be purchased.
  2. Indicate if any budget items will be supported by another source (e.g., college, department, faculty grant, or personal funds).
  3. At the end of the Fall semester, submit a progress report approved by your faculty mentor to the ARCH office.
  4. At the completion of your project, submit a detailed two-page summary describing the results and outcomes.
  5. The final report must be approved by your faculty research mentor and submitted to the ARCH office for final approval.

Ricardo Perez – Dulzaides Research Conference Scholarship

The Honors College provides up to $1000 to offset costs associated with an external research conference. This is a competitive process with the granting of awards determined by the quality of submissions and the availability of funds.

External Sources of Research Funding

The following information regarding funding is from the Northeastern University’s Webguru Guide for Undergraduate Research, a comprehensive resource for student researchers. If you are interested in ARCH, or are currently active in the program, it is highly recommended that you visit the Webguru website and explore everything they have to offer.

There are a number of useful tools that you can use to identify possible funding sources:

However, the majority of these provide support to scientists and engineers with advanced degrees. That said, there are a number of associations and agencies that provide support for undergraduate research. The four basic sources of funding are:

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