Graduate Student Summer Research Stipend Grant

Summer graduate research stipends of $3,600 are available to graduate students in the College of Arts and Letters. The intention behind this initiative is to encourage faculty-student teams to engage in research-related activities that will result in a grant or fellowship proposal by the faculty mentor to an external source within an eighteen-month time period. Such a proposal distinguishes this initiative from the Graduate Assistantships under the General Research and Creative Work heading of the Annual Awards (for information on that initiative, click here).

The proposal to ISLA needs to contain two parts—one from the faculty member and one from the graduate student.

The faculty member’s portion of the application should include the following:

  • A brief description of the project(s) and the external sponsors to which the proposal will be submitted (faculty are encouraged to think about applying to more than one source at a time)
  • A description of the specific tasks the student will engage in over the summer
  • A description of other product(s) that would emerge from the summer’s work such as articles, chapters, book, etc.
  • An estimated schedule of when the grant proposal and other scholarly works would be submitted
  • 2 page (max) curriculum vitae

The graduate student’s portion of the application should include the following:

  • description of how involvement in the summer’s activities fits with his/her research and scholarship goals
  • 2 page (max) curriculum vitae

Restrictions:

  • graduate students cannot be beyond their sixth year of graduate studies
  • graduate students may not receive additional summer funding
  • visiting and adjunct faculty are not eligible

A one to two-page final report from the faculty-student pair will be due to ISLA during the beginning of the Fall semester (August 31, 2008). The report needs to include a description of the specific activities that were conducted by the student over the summer as well as the status of any products that resulted from the summer work. Both the faculty member and the student need to sign the report. In addition, the faculty member needs to submit a grant or fellowship proposal to an external source within 18 months.

Deadline: Submit three copies of your proposal no later than March 16, 2009, by 4:00 p.m. to the ISLA office, 101 O’Shaughnessy Hall.

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