
Student Research Grant and Fellowship Reviewing
The Office of Research regularly requests reviewers for its flagship student funding programs. We are happy to provide documentation of your service for your records for each cycle you participate in.
URCO Grants
Faculty, postdoctoral, and advanced PhD students are invited to volunteer in November, March, or July to review up to five proposals (online and asynchronous) and provide scores, funding recommendations, and feedback to the grant-writers.
URCO reviewing is a service to our research community, assists in your own grant-writing and in mentoring students through the URCO proposal process, and can be documented as mentoring or research service.
GRCO Grant Reviewing
The review process is nearly identical to the URCO, with a rubric modified by the Senator, and takes place in one cycle annually for an award of up to $1,000 in research funding (no scholarships). Reviewing takes place in July. Only faculty may review GRCO proposals, to limit any peer bias.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Our URF application looks for the character traits that our past URFs have identified as necessary for success in research, so the application packets are short and volunteers will look at 15-20 packets during March each year. Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and advanced PhD students are welcome, especially those who have worked with undergraduates and those who may be looking for incoming freshmen or rising sophomores to join their projects!
Peak Summer Research Fellows
Faculty, postdoctoral researchers and advanced PhD students are welcome to review up to five proposals each March, asynchronously and online. As with URCO reviewing, this is a great way to develop your own proposal writing and mentoring of students who may apply for a Peak Fellowship in the future. The Peak proposals can be combined with URCO summer funding, and is a similar review rubric.