NASA WVSGC Undergraduate Research Fellowship
West Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Award: $4,500
Deadline: March
To Provide support for undergraduate students to become involved in a research project under the supervision of their academic advisor. Qualifications: Applicants must be full-time undergraduate students of U.S. citizenship; a faculty member from the applicant’s institution must agree to serve as a mentor and research advisor for the described project. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on soundness and technical merit of the proposed research; student's academic and extracurricular achievements; budget and plans for dissemination and publicizing of the results. How to apply: Applicants must submit a well-written (easy to understand, with no grammatical or spelling errors) maximum two-page summary of the research plan in their own words, including a statement of the problem, methodology, and proposed timeline; references and budget do not count towards the two-page limit; the document must be in PDF format and single-spaced using Times New Roman font size 12, with 1″ margins on all sides; the research plan must be reviewed and approved by the applicant’s faculty mentor; applicants should be aware that reviewers of the proposal may not be experts within their field of study, and the proposal should be written accordingly with minimal use of jargon; mentors may provide editorial and revision assistance, but the proposal must be primarily the work of the student applicant. Focus: Space and planetary sciences.
Eligibility
- States: WV