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Thinking Ahead: Spring Semester & Beyond
While IAP is just ahead, spring semester and the summer session will arrive before we know it. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you and your UROP students plan ahead for the coming terms.
Facilitating Effective Undergraduate Research (FER): A Development Series for Graduate Student Mentors
Facilitating Effective Research (FER) Program, a resource for graduate mentors now being introduced to MIT was created by
This year Dr. Rankin of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory is collaborating with the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming to offer various FER sessions to MIT graduate students who regularly supervise UROP students.
Facilitating Effective Research (FER) is a multi-faceted program to help graduate students and others who work with UROP students become more effective research mentors. The workshop series is hosted in collaboration with Dr. Janet Rankin, Associate Director of MIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory, who developed the program while she was at Brown University.
Sessions are offered on a quarterly basis and the next offering will be held during IAP on Tuesday, January 13 and Thursday, January 15 from 3:00 - 4:30 pm each day. Our spring sessions are tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 and Thursday, March 12, time TBA.
If you are interested in attending or having your graduate students attend either of these upcoming FER offerings, please contact UROP's Program Coordinator, Melissa Martin-Greene at x3-3002 or melmart@mit.edu
Upcoming UROP Deadlines
Even though the UROP proposal process has moved online, we still require that proposals are submitted by 5pm on the appropriate UROP deadline for the given term.
IAP proposals for faculty pay, credit and volunteer are due on Thursday, January 8, 2009. NOTE: IAP is not a UROP Direct Funding period.
Spring 2009 Deadlines are as follows:
- Thursday, February 12, 2009: UROP Direct Funding Requests. In those cases when you do not have the funds to offer financial support to your students, UROP has a limited amount of funding available to support research during the academic year and over the summer. This Direct Funding process is competitive; deadlines must be met for full consideration.
- Thursday, March 26, 2009: Supervisor/Sponsored Research Funding, Credit and Volunteer proposals
Upcoming Summer 2009 Deadlines:
- Thursday, April 16, 2009: UROP Direct Funding Requests.
- Thursday, June 25, 2009: Supervisor/Sponsored Research Funding, Credit and Volunteer proposals
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UROP-Related Travel
If you plan to supervise UROP research during IAP or a future term that will require your UROP students to travel within the U.S. or overseas, please note that there is travel safety paperwork that must be completed prior to departure. This paperwork includes a Checklist and Risk Acknowledgement Forms as well as an Emergency Contact Form. These forms are available In the Guidelines section of the UROP web site.
For international travel, the Institute issues travel warnings based on risks associated with particular destinations; these warnings can be found on MIT’s Travel Advisories Page. If the travel destination is considered higher risk, the Institute's Graduate and Undergraduate Travel Form may need to be completed. In some circumstances, overseas travel on Institute business may not be allowed.
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