Application Information

Faculty

All tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure track UNLV faculty, across all academic disciplines, who will mentor UNLV undergraduate students conducting research projects may apply for the funds detailed here.

1.  Faculty must demonstrate how the funds will benefit undergraduate researchers 

2. All faculty applications are expected to carry a minimum 25% cost-sharing match from the faculty member’s home department, college, and/or school. On a case-by-case basis, the matching funds requirement may be waived.

3. Research projects requiring the purchase of small equipment or supplies that will enhance capacity building for sustainable undergraduate student research will be prioritized.

4. Research projects that stimulate interdisciplinary collaborative efforts that involve use of small equipment and supplies by students will be prioritized.

Students

All currently enrolled UNLV undergraduates who will have not graduated before the end of the awarded semester and working with a UNLV FRM are eligible for consideration.

1. Undergraduate researchers must specify and demonstrate how the supplies will facilitate and advance their research and career development.

2. Undergraduate researchers must have a minimum 3.0 GPA.

3. Undergraduate researchers must have a letter of support from the faculty mentor endorsing the project 

4. Multiple undergraduate researchers applying for support for the same project or related projects may receive smaller awards.

5. Undergraduate researchers with prior OUR funds may be placed on the lower end of the priority scale.

Faculty members are required to submit the following as part of the application package:

1. A short statement from their department chair confirming financial commitment for at least 25% or matching funds

2. CVs of participating faculty

3. A one-page statement clearly and briefly describing:

   1. Research project

   2. Small equipment or supplies to be purchased within the context of the proposed research

   3. A statement on how will use of the small equipment and supplies contribute to students’ research education and professional development

   4. Anticipated deliverables that will contribute to UNLV’s undergraduate research output in the form of a research presentation, publication, innovation, and/or funding with faculty-undergraduate co-authors.

4. A one-page itemized budget and its justification 

5. A letter of support for their undergraduate student to our@unlv.edu

Student applicants are required to submit the following as part of the application package:

1. A one-page personal statement detailing the projects and supplies to be purchased

2. Curriculum Vitae (CV)

3. A one-page itemized budget and its justification