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Fellowships and Research Awards
Honors Undergraduate Research Awards
Bernard Boyd Memorial Fellowship
Bernard Boyd Memorial
Prize
Senior Honors Thesis Research Grants
William W. and Ida W. Taylor Honors Mentored Research Fellowship
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
| Honors Undergraduate Research Awards |
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Varies, usually sometime in March
For this year's deadline, contact the Program
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The Johnston
Center for Undergraduate Excellence provides these competitive
awards to support a limited number of students in the writing
of a senior honors thesis. Funds from these awards may be
used for expenses directly connected to undertaking the senior
thesis project. Individual awards generally do not exceed
$500, though projects with an international dimension may
qualify for a supplemental award of up to $500 from the University
Center for International Studies. Any equipment or non-expended
supplies purchased through the award become the property of
the Department at the conclusion of the project.
Applications
and further information about the award are available
from the Johnston Center. Applications are submitted through
the Department's honors advisor.
| Bernard Boyd Memorial Fellowship |
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Deadline: March 1
The Boyd Fellowship is a $9,000 fellowship given
annually to a major or double major in the Department of Religious
Studies who plans to pursue either graduate or professional
education in religion. Current majors, as well as those who
graduated the preceding year but did not immediately enter
graduate or professional school in religion, are eligible.
Individuals wishing to apply should submit the
following documents:
- A statement (3-5 pages, typed, double-spaced)
explaining the reasons for wanting to pursue advanced work
in religious studies.
- A description of the educational program the
award is to support.
- A transcript.
- Three letters of recommendation, including one from a
professor outside the Department of Religious Studies. (Forms
may be obtained from the Director
of Undergraduate Studies or the Department
Registrar.
The Department may require additional documentation
and personal interviews in the course of its deliberations.
A recipient must provide evidence that he or
she has enrolled in an accredited graduate or professional
program in religious studies, or the equivalent thereof, not
later than the following fall semester. In the event that
he or she does not, the award shall be reassigned to the next
most qualified candidate. (A student who forfeits the fellowship
may reapply without prejudice the following year if less than
a year has elapsed since graduation from college.)
Priority shall be given to persons who have
designated religious studies as their major or double major.
Lacking a superior candidate, the Department may award the
fellowship to a student entering the Department's graduate
program.
All documentation, including letters of recommendation,
should be submitted to:
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Religious Studies
125 Saunders Hall CB#3225
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27500-3225
| Bernard Boyd Memorial Prize |
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Deadline: Not applicable
Students do not apply for this award. Instead, they are nominated
by faculty members.
The Bernard Boyd Memorial Prize was established in 1979 by
the Department of Religious Studies in memory of Bernard Boyd,
who was James A. Gray Professor of Biblical Literature from
1950 to 1979. The prize is presented annually to the member
of the senior class majoring in religious studies who has
been selected by a faculty committee as most outstanding in
academic achievement.
This award of $250 is given in recognition of academic achievement
by a senior religious studies major or double major. Lacking a suitable
candidate, persons who are effectively majors, either by virtue of the
number of courses taken in the Department, or by virtue of participation
in the common life of the Department, shall be eligible.
| Senior Honors Thesis Research Grants |
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Deadline: Not applicable
Each semester, students undertaking senior honors projects are invited to apply for funding to help offset expenses incurred as part of their research.Honors thesis research grants can cover the cost of equipment, supplies, software, publications,transportation, and more. Awards are made on a competitive basis, and are usually limited to $500. Research projects that have an international component may be eligible for up to an additional $500 from the Center for Global Initiatives.
More information about Honors Thesis Grants is available here.
| William W. and Ida W. Taylor Honors Mentored Research Fellowship |
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Deadline: TBD
All currently enrolled UNC-Chapel Hill Honors students in good academic standing who will graduate after November 2010 and wish to engage in undergraduate research or artistic projects for at least six (6) weeks between May 10, 2010 and August 22, 2010 are eligible to apply.
The projects must be carried out under the supervision of a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty mentor. Applicants may work on projects of their own design or participate in their faculty mentors' ongoing research efforts. Applications are welcome from students in all majors and disciplines.
Students may not accept a Taylor Fellowship and either a Burch Fellowship or a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (offered through the Office for Undergraduate Research) during the same summer.
More information about the Taylor Fellowship is available here.
| Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) |
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Deadline: Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:00 p.m.
The Carolina Center for Public Service and the APPLES Service-Learning Program, in partnership with the Office for Undergraduate Research awards up to seven Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) of $3,500 each to support community-based-research in either domestic or global communities.
Community-based research is a collaborative enterprise that involves students, community members, and faculty in the design and implementation of research projects of shared interest that address a community need and, ultimately, promote social action and the common good. Community members play an integral role in defining the research question and objectives as well as providing input on project organization and direction. This approach requires a research question that is investigative rather than one that is intended to prove a given agenda. Many community-based research projects take the form of a needs assessment, program evaluation, data analysis, or documentary research. Community-based research promotes the use of various methods of inquiry and dissemination of the findings produced.
More information about SURF is available here and here.
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