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New Research Grant Opportunity for GC Students

Jennifer Adler

Just when you thought CUNY was only capable of cutting support availability for doctoral level research, students now have the opportunity to apply to a new source of funding, the Graduate Research Grants Program. This new program aims to foster a research-oriented academic culture among doctoral students by providing incentives for students to prepare and submit research proposals to funding sources; in this manner students can apply for funding themselves.

The Research Grant Program will be funded by the CUNY central office and administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs at the Graduate Center. ¾Funds will be distributed among departments and disciplinary clusters in approximate proportion to the number of eligible students in each sector for that academic year. University funds are available to support a variety of student research related activities such as data collection, compensation for human subjects, recruitment and advertising for research subjects, fees to use professional libraries and/or databases and to purchase required software, the rental of meeting and research space, travel requirements as well as for conference attendance.

Eligible students apply directly to the program. They must be in good academic standing and currently in their second through seventh year of doctoral studies. Individual grants are available up to $1,500. Applications are due by October 25th. The grant period will extend from February 1st, 2005 though January 31st, 2006. Applications can be requested from the Office of Sponsored Research and from the 5th floor Doctoral Students' Council hallway. You will be asked to include a research proposal and budget for evaluation. For additional information please contact your program's Executive Officer.

Jennifer Adler is a PhD student in Environmental Psychology and teaches at BMCC.