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, nationals and permanent residents.
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 $3000 award.
In general, a student receiving such a grant must participate in a
Research
Interaction Team (RIT) 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, national or permanent resident
- 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
A faculty sponsor who wishes to propose an alternative mode to
MATH 489 for a particular student should contact 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.
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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.
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