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This month on Friday, April 21st, our ASSURE students and several other undergraduate researchers across campus will gather together at the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Conference (UROC) in the SUB. Thanks to this unique campus-wide event, students will be able to present their research at several events throughout the day, including poster sessions, oral presentations, and various special sessions. I encourage you all to take some time out of your day to support our students in their tremendous efforts and learn about how they are taking advantage of this mentorship opportunity to make a difference in their communities. Consider volunteering for UROC by signing up here.
Applications are now open for the Fall 2023 cohort of ASSURE and will be accepted until May 5th. If you have a student who is interested in applying, they can do so at this link.
Applications are also now open for the second cohort of the Fostering Research Expansion in the Social Sciences and Humanities (FRESSH) program. Submissions are due on April 20th, and for those of you who may be interested in applying, there will be an info session on Thursday, April 13th at Noon. For more information on the FRESSH program, and to apply, please click here.
Last year’s inaugural FRESSH cohort of 21 faculty included 17 from A&S, and of those, five have already used the knowledge they gained from the program to submit proposals to a federal funding agency. One of these submissions recently received notice of being awarded and I would like to congratulate Emily McRae, associate professor in the department of Philosophy, for being selected as a recipient of the NEH Award for Faculty at Hispanic Serving Institutions for her book project on Moral Ignorance in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy.
I look forward to sharing more successes from the inaugural cohort of FRESSH, and want to extend my appreciation to the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) for making this opportunity possible for faculty. The staff there worked diligently to provide a valuable program for the inaugural cohort last year and I have no doubt that this year will be even better.
Until next month,
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