A competitive grant process funds a maximum of $500 per year to undergraduates who wish to conduct independent, scholarly or creative' projects. Each grant recipient will have a faculty sponsor to guide the grant recipient's scholarly or creative project. Student grant recipients receive a minimum of three hours of directed individual study academic credit for undertaking their research projects.

Undergraduate Research Program Application (Word)

Call for Abstracts- Spring 2008 UNF Research Symposium

Grant applications are due on March 14th and October 17th of each year and grant recipients must submit their final projects by March 1st of the following year. In April of each year, the Undergraduate Academic Enrichment Program hosts a poster session in which the award recipients from the previous year present their finished projects. The UAEP also publishes the Osprey Journal of Ideas and Inquiry that includes the finished projects of all of the previous year's award recipients. Below are links to the most recent Osprey Journal publishings.

Osprey Journal Vol. V 2006 Table of Contents (Word)

Natural Sciences/Health Sciences

Iris Cynthia Allen, Erin Fuller, Stephen Melnyk, Joan Quattrochi, and Sean M. Wells and Dr. John D. Hatle
Calorie Restriction Enhances Longevity without Reducing Lifetime Fecundity or Glucose Titers in Female Lubber Grasshoppers

Reen E. Foley and Dr. Faris Malhus
Structural Vibrations Laboratory Demonstrator

Joe Lewandowski, Ivan Faustino, and Dr. Daniel Cox
Design, Fabrication, and Implementation of Jump-Cue Testing Machine

Tatiana Melnik and Dr. Zornitza Genova Prodanoff
Microsoft.Net and Security Provided by the High-Level Internet Protocols

Kevin Phillips and Dr. Susan Vasana
System Simulations of DS-TRD and TH-PPM for Ultra Wide Band (UWB) Wireless Communications

Meghan Eileen Lyons and Dr. Bernadette Buckley
Isokinetic Hamstring:Quadriceps Strength Ratio in Males and Females: Implications for ACL Injury

Social Sciences and Business

Kelly Cook, Nicole Feldman, Rebecca Martin and Dr. Linda Foley
Mothers Who Kill: Number of Victims, Sexism, and a Just World

Bonnie L. Brogdon, April L. Fitzwater, Lucille C. Johnson, and Dr. Linda Foley
Differences in Men’s and Women’s Perceptions of Infidelity in Varying Situations

Christopher J. Cox and Dr. Paul G. Harwood
Digital Repertoires: Non-State Actors and ICTs

Mark Fafard and Dr. Ron-Lukens-Bull
Next Year in Jerusalem: A 21st Century, Medieval Pilgrimage Site

Chelsea E. Quinn and Dr. Gordon Rakita
Behavioral Observations of Western Lowland Gorillas: Understanding the Relationship Between Diets and Behaviors in Primate Bachelor Groups

Emma Glencross, Lisa E. Wills and Dr. C. Dominik Güss
Survey on Study Abroad: Data from 600 UNF Freshmen

Michael King, Scott Martin, and Dr. Oliver Schnusenberg
Federal Funds Target Rate Changes and Sector Equity Returns

Humanities and Fine Arts

Michal Paul and Dr. Julie Ingersol
Spectacle of Redemption: Film as Religious Iconography

Michal Paul and Dr. Julie Ingersol: 2005 Religious Studies Paper Prize Winner
The Cult of Love

James Holeman and Dr. Paul Halsall
Looking Behind the Veil of an Idealized Past: The Useful Legacy of a False Prophet

Laura Root and Dr. J. Michael Francis
“Temporary Gentlemen” on the Western Front: Class Consciousness and the British Army Officer, 1914-1918

Drek Ortiz and Dr. J. Michael Francis
Ruthless Oppressors? Unraveling the Myth About the Spanish Inquisition

Neil Paradise and Dr. J. Michael Francis: 2005 History Paper Prize Winner
In the Lion’s Den: Orthodox Christians under the Ottoman Rule, 1400-1550

Adam Groff: 2005 UNF Writing Center Creative Fiction Winner
Falling Into Love

Christopher Sylvestor: 2005 Writing Center Creative Non-Fiction Winner
The Birds in My Life

Reginald Youngblood: 2005 Writing Center Poetry Winner
Men as Bars, Women as Hotels

Archives
Osprey Journal Vol. IV 2005 page