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The Workplace of Undergraduate Analysis granted the Fletcher Awards to undergraduate college students and college advisers for distinctive scholar analysis and mentorship in December.
Six undergraduate college students and two school members earned Fletcher Awards for analysis and mentorship from the Workplace of Undergraduate Analysis on the annual ceremony in December.
“Undergraduate analysis challenges college students to assume and collaborate in new methods, so as to add significant data to the world and to boost the bar of their very own expectation,” stated Peter Civetta, the Workplace of Undergraduate Analysis director, in a College information launch.
The Fletcher Awards have two classes: Summer time Undergraduate Analysis Grants (SURG) and the Undergraduate Analysis Assistant Program (URAP).
The Fletcher Household Basis awards a $250 prize for distinctive undergraduate analysis performed with SURG grants. Yearly, NU college students have the prospect to use for $4,000 grants to implement an impartial mission thought with school supervision throughout the upcoming summer season.
URAP is a paid scholar analysis assistant program that runs by way of the calendar 12 months by which college students work with school mentors to develop new expertise. That is the Fletcher Awards’ second 12 months recognizing each distinctive college students and mentors.
“These applications, and particularly these school mentors, present transformative alternatives and, when given these alternatives, the Fletcher Award winners present what is feasible,” Civetta stated.
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