Enhancing Undergraduate Research Initiatives

CARET (Creative Activities and Research Experiences for Teams)

The Creative Activities and Research Experiences for Teams (CARET) program is designed to enhance undergraduate involvement and experience in research and creative activity. This funding program is designed to encourage and support faculty engagement in research or creative activity with undergraduate student collaborators using a team approach over two semesters (Spring-Summer 2009). The research or creative activity can be one project for all team members or multiple projects across students. Although it is not required, faculty in departments with graduate programs are strongly encouraged to include Graduate Research Assistants as mentors. A complete description of the program, including application materials and criteria, iavailable at this link (NOTE: This is a Rich Text Format, rtf, document). The deadline for receipt of proposals is April 7, 2008 for Spring-Summer 2009 projects.

2008-2009 (FY09) Undergraduate Research Travel Stipends

CETL will sponsor a limited number of travel funding awards for faculty and their student undergraduate researchers to attend professional conferences to present their research.  In order to provide as many opportunities as possible to support student researcher travel, each funding award will be limited to a maximum of $300 for the faculty mentor and $300 for each student.  Individual faculty and students may only apply for one funding award per fiscal year.  Faculty must be under contract at Kennesaw and students must be enrolled at Kennesaw State during the time period of the travel.  Travel must start on or after July 1, 2008 and be completed by June 30, 2009. A complete description of the program, including application materials and criteria, is available at this link (NOTE: This is a Rich Text Format, rtf, document). Funds are awarded on a “first come, first served” basis until exhausted.