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NEW STUDENT GRANT OPPORTUNITY FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH!

Targeted at graduate students with undergraduate involvement

I-Cubed’s Interdisciplinary Research Award:

* This year, 6 awards up to $2,500 each will be awarded to teams of graduate students to conduct projects for duration not to exceed one academic year. Through the Collaborating with Strangers workshops presented by the UF Libraries, the I-Cubed Research Award applicants participating in the workshops may receive up to $2,800 for an interdisciplinary project

* The Award is to encourage graduate students in the STEM disciplines to propose, develop and participate with SBE students in an interdisciplinary research project

*It is intended to provide graduate students with experience working in an interdisciplinary team environment as well as encourage graduate students to involve undergraduate students in research activities

*Projects that involve one or more undergraduate students and/or CoLAB participants will receive priority for funding consideration

Requirements:

*Each team must include one graduate student from the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and another from the SBE (Social, Behavioral, and Economics) disciplines.

*Minimum team size is two graduate students

Application deadline: MARCH 30, 2012 BY 5.00 PM

The I-Cubed Program will hold a Nuts & Bolts Session for grant applicants to answer questions on how to apply for the Award. This session is scheduled for:

February 24^th at the HUB (UF International Center) Room-145 at 2:00 PM

George A. Smathers Libraries is offering two workshops to help graduate students seeking project partners to build interdisciplinary teams.

Collaborating with Strangers workshops:

February 8^th at the University Gallery (Fine Arts Building B) at 4.00- 5.30 pm

Or March 21^st – Location (to be determined)

More information about the award available here:

http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/pio/colab/researchaward.html

Visit http://blogs.uflib.ufl.edu/news/?p=1034 for the registration link. For further information, please request the project guidelines after the workshop.

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