Applications for the 2018-19 Undergraduate Research Awards (URA) are being accepted now!

Undergraduate Research Awards provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. UMBC students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they will remain enrolled at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.  Eligible students are degree-seeking undergraduates who will conduct mentored-research or creative work, June 2018- May 2019. The URA may be used to support work being done as part of a capstone project, honors thesis, ongoing lab project, scholars program, art exhibit or performance, or an independent project.  

Application deadline: Feb. 16, 2018.

For more info and to apply:

ur.umbc.edu/ura

Workshop this Wednesday, January 31^st from 12-12:50 p.m. Sondheim 103:  How to Apply for a URA

The exhibition, curated by University of Maryland professor Jason Kuo, comprises 30 artworks and represents the artist’s first show in the United States in ten years. Representing four decades of the artistic activity, the selection of works ranges from smaller, poetic compositions of the late 1960s to monumental, post-modern landscapes of 2015.  Working in the millennia-old tradition of Chinese ink art, Lo Ch'ing's paintings include familiar landscape forms of the genre, such as mountains, clouds and river scenes, but he updates this hallowed pictorial language with his own idiosyncratic vocabulary — one that includes an array of modern symbols like airplanes, icons, asphalt and skyscrapers — and aerial views impossible in ancient times.

Generous support for the exhibition catalog Lo Ch'img: A Contemporary Chinese Poet Painter comes from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO).

This event is free for UMBC faculty, staff, & students.  

Please click here to register.  

Registrants will have access to conference materials and also enjoy all the meals, including a banquet of African food and dance on 5/9/18 if they choose. 

The McNair Scholars program focuses on the preparation of undergraduate students who qualify as either low-income/first-generation college students or members of groups underrepresented in graduate education to pursue doctoral degrees.

The program offers a number of benefits, such as: summer and academic year research funding, assistance connecting with faculty research mentors, hands-on guidance and navigation through the graduate school application process, first-hand exposure to individuals who have earned PhD’s in their field of study, and the opportunity to attend research conferences (fully funded).

For any interested students, please encourage them to apply as soon as possible, the deadline is Friday, February 9th, 4:59:59 pm.

For additional information, please contact:  mcnairs@umbc.edu.