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Students,
There was an error in the previous message regarding the Spring 2010
Undergraduate Apprenticeship Program - please see the corrected information
below.
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Faculty members and Undergraduates Have a Month to Prepare and Submit their
Applications for the Spring 2010 Undergraduate Apprenticeship Program.
Up to 20 scholarly projects on which faculty members and students work
closely together throughout the semester will be selected in a competitive
process. The deadline to apply for the Spring 2010 semester is NOVEMBER
15th 2009.
The program is designed to encourage Mason's high-achieving undergraduate
students to become involved in research and creative projects early in
their academic careers, under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
A $1,000 stipend is provided to the students selected for the program.
Students are also funded to attend several undergraduate research
conferences or disciplinary conferences, including that of the Colonial
Academic Alliance. Some stipends to cover materials purchased as part of
the project are available to faculty who participate. First preference will
be given to junior faculty.
In addition to meeting and working closely with their faculty members,
students will meet as a group three times during the semester to discuss
professional development issues, including preparing for graduate school,
graduate funding, designing a poster or other professional presentation and
writing abstracts.
Applications from all disciplines and departments are encouraged. Faculty
members and students should collaborate and submit applications online at
the following link:. <http://uap.gmu.edu/application.html> On this
Undergraduate Apprenticeship website, you will also find suggestions on
applying for an undergraduate apprenticeship program, a sample application,
as well as the faculty and student application forms.
Please note that because of the increasingly competitive nature of the
program in the past few semesters, the GPAs of successful student
applicants have been significantly higher than the minimum required.
Students are eligible to apply for a second apprenticeship, but are less
likely to receive a renewal than in past years. Faculty members are
eligible to mentor just one student per semester or summer through this
program. Please note that we do not match students and faculty--students
request that faculty mentor them on a project of their own selection.
Summer 2010 applications will be due in mid-April.
For more information, please contact Dr. Deirdre Moloney, Director,
Fellowships and Undergraduate Apprenticeship Program, at 703-993-2917 or
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