VIGRE Grants for Undergraduates

The math department's VIGRE grant provides approximately five support grants per semester.

Applying for a VIGRE grant

The VIGRE grant offers a limited number (five per semester) of support grants for undergraduate research. These grants are available only for American citizens. Grants are made on a continuing basis while funds remain.

An academic year semester grant (i.e., a grant for Fall or for Spring) is a $2500 award. A student receiving such a grant must participate in a Research Interaction Team and register for MATH 489 credit. (This requires steps including a contract with the sponsoring professor, as described in the MATH 489 link.) So, to compete for the academic year support, a student must

be an American citizen
register for three MATH 489 credits for the semester of support
submit the completed application form, with a copy of the approved MATH 489 contract, to the Undergraduate Chair, Mike Boyle, (mmb@math.umd.edu) or the Undergraduate Advisor Ida Chan (ugadvisor@math.umd.edu).
have the MATH 489-sponsoring faculty member recommend the financial support by email to the Undergraduate Chair

agree with the faculty sponsor on a contract, which must be approved by the Undergraduate Chair.

have the sponsoring faculty member submit a recommendation, which can be a simple email to the Undergraduate Chair.

--> We also ask that the application form and any associated contract be emailed (as a simple text file--not msword, pdf, tex, dvi, tex, etc.) to the Undergraduate Chair. A final condition of support is that the student agrees to submit a brief (under a page) report summarizing his or her research and accomplishments under the support.

Deadlines: There is no strict deadline for support, however funds will begin to be committed for a semester as of a certain cutoff date, and later applications run the risk that funds might be exhausted.