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Charles Center Summer Scholarships

The Charles Center offers a number of funding opportunities to support research during the summer. Unless otherwise noted, all awards are $3000 and projects must be for seven full-time weeks of undergraduate research. To be eligible, applicants must be continuing students (i.e., not graduating seniors) in good academic standing. Recipients must agree to blog about their research on the Process of Undergraduate Research (POUR) site at least five times and present their work at a summer scholarship event in the fall of 2012.

Here is a brief description of each of the awards offered. In general, each application consists of an application form, 2-3 page double-spaced project proposal, 750-word personal statement, Banner transcript, and one letter of recommendation. Unless otherwise noted, all applications are due by 12:00 noon on Wednesday March 14, 2012.

A note on combining internships with research: Students may incorporate an internship into their project only if their time is not already committed to another undertaking, and the student is able to dedicate at least seven full-time weeks to the project. For example, if the student is doing a full-time, seven week, unpaid internship with an environmental non-profit organization and this non-profit permits the student to dedicate full-time to the research, the student is eligible for funding; if the work with the non-profit is a fully paid job, the student may not receive funding because 100% of the student's time is already committed. A student cannot receive money for research if they are getting paid for an internship or if they cannot dedicate seven full time weeks.

NOTE: If you are applying for a scholarship due on Wednesday, March 14 you MUST COMPLETE THIS ONLINE FORM!