Office of ResearchFaculty mentors may apply for grants of up to $2,000 to support scholarly and creative activities with undergraduate students. Funds may be applied to various essential needs such as supplies, minor equipment, software, research travel, and preparation of reports and presentations.
The goal is to support a wide range of disciplinary activities, from experimental research and fieldwork, to applied professional experiences, to artistic and creative endeavors.
Kellogg Undergraduate Scholars Program (KUSP):
KUSP provides student scholarships of up to $2,500 to support mentored research or creative activities in a student’s chosen field. The goal is to support undergraduate research engagement of underrepresented students, and to encourage persistence to degree, and pursuit of graduate education. KUSP is open to all first-generation college students, economically disadvantaged students, and returning military veterans. A minimum Cal Poly Pomona GPA of 2.7 is required.
The application deadline for both programs is Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
CLICK: Application Forms:
Kellogg FuTURE Mini-Grant for Faculty
Kellogg Undergraduate Scholars Program (KUSP)
WHERE: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
WHEN: MAY 4-5, 2012
PURPOSE
The competition is held to promote excellence in undergraduate and graduate scholarly research and creative activity by recognizing outstanding student accomplishments throughout the twenty-three campuses of the California State University.
WHO MAY APPLY
Undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled at any CSU campus as well as alumni/alumnae who received their degrees in Spring, Summer, or Fall 2011 are eligible. The research presented should be appropriate to the student’s discipline and career goals. Proprietary research is excluded. Presentations from all disciplines are invited. There will be separate undergraduate and graduate divisions for each of the following categories (unless a division has four or fewer entrants, in which case undergraduate and graduate divisions may be combined). The California State University, Long Beach steering committee reserves the right to combine or subdivide these categories or to move an entrant from one category to another, as numbers of submissions necessitate. The ten categories are as follows:
• Behavioral and Social Sciences
• Biological and Agricultural Sciences
• Business, Economics, and Public Administration
• Creative Arts and Design (creative projects are welcome—see "Competition Guidelines")
• Education
• Engineering and Computer Science
• Health, Nutrition, and Clinical Sciences
• Humanities and Letters
• Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Interdisciplinary
Each CSU campus appoints a campus coordinator and develops its own procedures for selecting its student delegates to the system-wide competition. Interested students should contact their campus coordinator for information on how their work is to be considered at the campus level. Only those students endorsed by a campus coordinator can enter the statewide competition.
If a student’s work has been selected by the campus for presentation in the system-wide competition, the students will submit their information through an on-line submission website which will include the information from the Student Delegate Registration Formand attach a written summary of the research.
Cal Poly Pomona students wishing to participate should follow the Procedures and Guidelines and submit a Student Delegate Registration Form and one (1) copy of a written summary of the research to the Office of Research, Bldg. 1, Room 225, no later than 5:00 pm on Monday, March 5, 2012. The registration form and research summary may be emailed to cmsaunders@csupomona.edu. If you have questions contact 909-869-2955.
HOW TO APPLY: CLICK TO PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES
STUDENT DELEGATE REGISTRATION FORM: CLICK HERE
The California Pre-Doctoral Program is designed to increase the diversity of the pool from which the California State University draws its faculty. It does so by supporting the doctoral aspirations of CSU students who have experienced economic and educational disadvantages. A special emphasis is placed on increasing the number of CSU students who enter graduate programs at one of the University of California campuses.
Each of the applicants selected will be designated a Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar and will work closely with a CSU faculty sponsor to develop an overall plan which leads ultimately to enrollment in a doctoral program. The program also provides:
Questions and requests for applications should be directed to:
Dr. Suketu Bhavasar
The Kellogg Honors College
3801 W. Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
Phone: 909-869-3944
Fax: 909-869-4246
Email: spbhavsar@csupomona.edu
Mr. Won Choi
Academic Coordinator
The Kellogg Honors College
3801 W Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
Phone: 909-869-3209
Fax: 909-869-4246
Email: wschoi1@csupomona.edu
The 19th annual SCCUR conference will be held November 19, 2011 on the Campus of Mt. San Antonio College (Mt. SAC) in Walnut, California. The theme for the conference is "Ascending the Summit of Discovery".
Students in all disciplines -- the creative and performing arts, engineering, humanities, natural and social sciences-- are invited to present their research, scholarship, and creative work during this celebration of undergraduate discovery.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, Oct. 3, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, Oct. 25, 2011
Early Registration Deadline: Monday, Oct. 31, 2011
Deadline for Cancellation with Refund: November 7, 2011
Late Registration: November 1-19, 2011
The SCCUR 2011 website is up and the abstract submission portion is live (Click for Link) This website contains all information on the event, general information, abstract guidelines and submission instructions ,and online registration.
To encourage team work, the President, Provost and the Office of Research will pay the registration fees for the first 80 students whose faculty mentors email a request to the AVP for Research, Dr. Frank W. Ewers at: fwewers@csupomona.edu. Payment of registration fees will also be made for faculty mentors of students.
