Overview
The ILR Undergraduate Research Fellows Program provides ILR undergraduates with the opportunity to work with a professor during summer 2020 or academic year 2020-2021. This program was developed in response to numerous requests we have received from undergraduates for research opportunities and in the hope that it will facilitate one-on-one student/faculty interactions. To apply for either the Summer or Academic Year research opportunity please click Apply below and review the links on the program web site.
Summer Research Fellows - Application deadline to be announced
Summer Research Fellows will have the opportunity to engage in independent research under faculty members’ guidance or serve as research assistants for faculty members during the summer of 2021. Students participating in this program will receive summer funding up to a maximum of $4,350 to cover living expenses during a 10-week period and the summer self-help component of financial aid packages.
Academic Year Research Fellows
Academic Research Fellows will have the opportunity to serve as research assistants for faculty members during the 2021-2022 academic year. Students participating in this program will receive hourly pay of $15 per hour up to a maximum of $1,680 per semester. Awards will be made on a one semester basis with renewal possible for the second semester. Students may not earn credit for the research project during the semester or year they are being paid as a research assistant.
Application Procedures
Current ILR sophomores or juniors will be given first priority for the program. ILR freshmen are also eligible to apply. Interested students should seek out faculty members who are willing to serve as supervisors of their independent research and/or to employ them as research assistants. Faculty members are also encouraged to seek out students with whom they would like to work. When the matches are made, the attached application form and requested documentation should be submitted to my assistant, Kathy Roberts, in 291 Ives, by March 26, 2021. Award notifications will be announced the beginning of April. Faculty members may submit with no more than one student for the summer and no more than one student for the academic year.
The criteria used in selecting participants will be: 1) the academic record of the student; 2) for research assistants, the extent to which the faculty member’s description of the activities the student will perform as a research assistant suggests that the student will have a meaningful exposure to the research process and, for independent studies, the quality of the project proposed; 3) the track record of the faculty member in supervising student research and/or student research assistants; and 4) a letter of recommendation in support of the student from the faculty member who is supervising the research. This may be supplemented by an additional letter from another ILR School Faculty member if desired (for example, if the professor who will be supervising the project is not familiar with the student’s performance in class). The ILR Faculty Research committee will evaluate the applications and make the awards.