AWARDS from the Vice President for Research Office Celebrating Undergraduate Research

•    Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year
•    The David and Terry Peak Undergraduate Researcher of the Year

-- Due 12 February to the Office of the Vice President for Research;
--Celebrated 30 March 2010 at noon during Student Showcase in TSC
--Undergraduate Researcher of the Year Included in Robins Awards April

The College Researcher of the Year is overseen by Associate Vice President Jeff Broadbent and has the same due date of February 13. Associate Vice President Joyce Kinkead oversees the undergraduate awards. Students selected as College Undergraduate Researchers of the Year are interviewed by the Undergraduate Research Advisory Board in order to determine a winner for the Robins Award. 

Faculty Award
The Vice President for Research announced in 2003 the inauguration of an award to recognize outstanding faculty as mentors of undergraduate researchers. This award is part of the Research Matters initiative that demonstrates the added value of an undergraduate education at a research university.  Faculty who mentor undergraduate researchers are characterized as counselors and guides who encourage, instruct, and advocate.  A good faculty mentor provides a role model for methods of inquiry in a field of study and for the responsible conduct of research.  Good mentors often provide students with their first entry into professional circles and support the dissemination of the student’s work as through professional conference participation or publication. There is no “run-off” for a single winner in the faculty category.
A monetary award of $500 is given to each recipient.

Student Award
Joining the award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor in 2004 was a parallel prize to recognize the college’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher.  The honorarium for the student award is $200, and these students, too, will be recognized and honored at Student Showcase.  The Robins Winner will have a financial augmentation. Since 2008, the undergraduate research award is known as the David and Terry Peak Undergraduate Research Prize. 

Process:
Please submit electronically the following:
1) name and 1-page biography of the winner;
2) photograph.
3) A# for the checks
Address to Teresa.Seeholzer@usu.edu.