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Graduate Scholars Program

A Funding Program in Support of UNF Graduate Students’ Scholarly Projects

Program Description and Eligibility
The Graduate School will offer a number of grants in the fall and in the spring to graduate students pursuing individual scholarly projects.  Projects may be funded up to a maximum of $500. The Graduate Council will make awards on the criteria that the funds advance the student's scholarly work. For example, a student may need funds to present a paper or poster at a conference, travel to a research site, or collect data for an experiment. Please note that simply attending a conference or performing research assistant duties for a faculty member’s research do not qualify for funding.

In order to be eligible to apply for the award, students must also be actively registered for at least one (1) credit hour of coursework during the semester in which they are applying for the award.  Audited coursework will not count towards this requirement.

Application
Each graduate student who wishes to apply for one of these grants should write a ONE PAGE application that includes all of the following information:
-- Student name, student number (“N” number), graduate program, and complete contact information including e-mail and mailing addresses.
-- Project overview and description, detailed project budget, and amount of funding requested
-- Statement of the specific significance/importance of the project and how it will advance the student’s scholarly work
-- Advising faculty member’s name and contact information and a brief endorsement by the faculty member.

The page must include the signatures of both the graduate student and the endorsing faculty member.

Deadlines
Fall applications are due on November 2nd. Spring applications are due on March 1st. Awards will be announced within a month of those deadlines.  Applications should be brought to Keith Martin in the Graduate School (Bldg. 53, Room 2100). Or they may be mailed to:

Keith Martin
Director
The Graduate School
University of North Florida
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Award Disbursement
Students who are chosen for the award will need to provide appropriate documentation in order to receive scholarship funds. Documentation includes but is not limited to the following: receipts, conference programs, travel tickets, receipts for supplies, etc. Students will not be reimbursed until proper documentation has been received.

NOTE
Any project which would require IRB approval must have secured this approval before an application for a Graduate Scholars award is made.

Click here for a list of past award winners.