Faculty members are encouraged to send the names of academically and experientially exceptional, ambitious rising seniors who would benefit from attending graduate school at Cambridge, Oxford, or one of the other premier UK institutions, to the Office of Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, according to John Orr, assistant to the provost. Students applying for these awards must […]
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Undergraduate Research Protocol Reminder
The provost’s office would like to remind all faculty members who will be conducting collaborative research with undergraduates this semester that the Deans Council has approved a uniform, University-wide protocol for all undergraduate research projects. A list of the items required each semester as part of the protocol can always be found in the Undergraduate Research […]
Please Load Scholarly Activity On The Portal
The Scholarly Activity Portal is always live and ready for faculty input on PilotsUP under the “Academics” menu. The data obtained via the portal is used to populate A Community of Scholars (published annually by the Provost’s office), the Clark Library’s annual celebration of UP authors, and annual self-evaluations. Faculty members will send a report […]
Honors Program Mentors Needed
Faculty members are invited to serve as Honors Program mentors. Faculty mentors assist with selecting the incoming honors class, are assigned two incoming honors student mentees, and are encouraged to meet with them on a regular basis during the students’ first two years at the University. Those who would like to learn more about being […]
Provost’s Initiative for Undergrad Research: New Deadline
Faculty members are invited to apply for one of ten spring 2020 Provost’s Initiative grants for support to collaborate with an undergraduate on a co-designed research project during the spring semester 2020. Students are expected to meet and work with the faculty member weekly. Students will enroll in a 493 course and will earn a […]
Please Load Scholarly Activity On The Portal
Faculty members are reminded to load their scholarly activity on the portal in PilotsUP by May 31, 2019. Data obtained through the portal will be used to populate A Community of Scholars, published by the provost’s office. Faculty members use their school’s report on the home tab of the Scholarly Activity Portal to send the data to their […]
Summer Undergraduate Research Protocol Reminder
The Provost’s office would like to remind all faculty members conducting collaborative research with undergraduates this summer that the Deans Council approved a uniform, University-wide protocol for all undergraduate research projects. A list of the items required each semester as part of the protocol can always be found in the Undergraduate Research section of the PilotsUP Forms […]
Summer Provost’s Initiative for Undergrad Research Awards
The Summer Provost’s Initiative for Undergraduate Research has been awarded to the following faculty members and their student collaborators: Martin Cenek, computer science Laurie Dizney, biology Andrew Eshleman, philosophy Nicole Ralston, education Giannina Reyes-Giardiello, Spanish Sarina Saturn, psychological sciences For more information about future Provost Initiative applications, please contact John Orr at orr@up.edu.
2019 UP Fulbright Finalists Announced
The University’s latest finalists for Fulbright awards have been announced, according to John Orr, undergraduate scholarly engagement: Sitara Nath (CAS): English Teaching Assistant (ETA) to Malaysia Lucas Cummings (Pamplin School of Business): ETA to Malaysia Ian Saner (CAS): Community-Based Combined Award to Austria Christina Francisco (CAS): ETA to Germany Claire Kearney (CAS): Research to Germany. […]
Visiting Professor Wei Feng Lectures, March 18, 19
The English Department and the Honors Program are sponsoring Dr. Wei Feng, Fangwu Professor of English at North East Normal University in Changchun, China, to present two lectures on campus. Feng is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Yale University, where he is working on a project titled “Americanizing Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century: A […]