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by JULIANNE OLSON
Intern News Reporter
The Office of Student Research (OSR), in collaboration with Cratis D. Williams Graduate School and the Office of International Education and Development (OIED), are accepting applications from students for an international student research grant.
This will be the fourth year the $15,000 grant will be open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Each applicant can apply for up to $1,500 to go towards a research endeavor for the upcoming spring or summer.
Roughly 10 students will be awarded the grant money at the end of November to provide funding for these undergraduate and graduate students that wish to participate in international research. The grant money generally goes toward airfare, as well as helping to cover the costs of needed equipment and materials.
“The idea is that
the chosen students will discover new knowledge with an international
foundation,” Alan C. Utter, director of OSR said. “Students could
assist a foreign professor with their work on a research project, or
students could assist a professor from Appalachian with their research
project in another country.”
In previous years, students have used their grant money in a variety of ways.
Katelyn
J. McGinnis, senior geology major, was awarded her grant money this
past July. She plans to travel to Tanzania, where she will investigate
the origin and preservation of early human footprints.
Appalachian
alumnus Robert Fish used his grant money, received in April 2008, to
travel to Japan to research American aspects of the art of Taiko
drumming.
Alumna
Katrin Deil utilized her grant money given in October 2008 to go to
Germany to analyze the relationship between the Christian Democratic
Union and women in Germany.
The
international research grant is different from the study abroad program
in that “students will be actively involved in the creation of
knowledge through working hand in hand with a faculty member by being
exposed to the steps of discovery,” Utter said.
In previous years, OSR has received twice as many applications than the grant can support. The deadline to apply is Nov. 2.
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