Student Research Grants and Fellowships
Conducting research enhances critical thinking skills, stimulates intellectual curiosity, and creates effective linkages between what is learned in the classroom with our understanding of how the world works. It is an essential part of our graduate programs and is strongly encouraged for undergraduates. Other benefits of research include:
- Develop a strong mentoring relationship with faculty members who share similar interests.
- Learn essential laboratory techniques and field data collection methods.
- Obtain valuable hands-on experiences and demonstrate important time management, organizational, and communications skills that are valued by employers.
- Gain a competitive advantage for future acceptance into graduate school and professional programs.
- Contribute to science and society by presenting your work at scientific meetings and publishing findings in peer-reviewed journals.
- Earn course credit by completing GEOG 497 Undergraduate Research in Geography.
Research is our passion
Gain practical research experience as an undergraduate and help fund your own project as a graduate student.
Thanks to the generous support of alumni, friends, and faculty, we award promising undergraduate and graduate researchers each year with grants and fellowships to support lab and field-based projects. Students in Geography and Geospatial Sciences can apply for department research grants and fellowships by referring to the instructions and using other required forms provided below.
Undergraduate Research Fellowships