[nativestudies-l] Summer Fellowship for minority undergrads interested in pursuing a Ph.D.

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

 From AIP-L list-serve at Cornell University:

 

*From:* Ford Foundation Fellows List [mailto:FFF at listserv.uncc.edu] *On 
Behalf Of *Ashley Lucas
*Sent:* Sunday, November 29, 2009 8:19 AM
*To:* FFF at listserv.uncc.edu
*Subject:* MURAP Summer Fellowship for minority undergrads interested in 
pursuing a Ph.D.

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

Please pass along this information about the MURAP summer fellowship to 
any of your minority undergraduate students who are interested in 
pursuing a Ph.D. in the arts, humanities, or social sciences.  This is a 
wonderful program, which provides students with housing and a stipend 
for ten weeks in the summer before their junior or senior year of 
college.  I have been a mentor for the last two years, and I am 
particularly interested in students who would like to work on research 
projects in theatre and/or performance studies.  Students interested in 
Ph.D.s in all disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences 
are welcome to apply.  This program does not prepare students to pursue 
MFAs, JDs, MDs, or other professional degrees.  Feel free to email me if 
you have any questions about the program.

 

Best wishes,

 

Ashley Lucas

President of the Women and Theatre Program of ATHE

Assistant Professor of Dramatic Art

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Center for Dramatic Art, CB #3230

Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3230

Office phone: (919) 962-2496

 

Adobe Systems

Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program 
<http://www.unc.edu/depts/murap/index.html>**

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*Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program*

*Announcement of Summer Student Fellowships*

*May 23-July 29, 2010*

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*The Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (MURAP) is a paid 
summer fellowship designed to foster the entrance of talented students 
from diverse backgrounds within the humanities, social sciences, and 
fine arts into graduate school and faculty positions in U.S. colleges 
and universities.  More broadly, the program seeks to increase the 
presence of minorities and others who demonstrate a commitment to 
eradicating racial disparities in graduate school and eventually in 
academic ranks.  The program serves the related goals of providing role 
models for all youth and structuring campus environments so that they 
will be more conducive to improved racial and ethnic relations.  MURAP 
aims to achieve its mission by identifying and supporting students of 
great promise and helping them to become scholars of the highest 
distinction.*

*Each summer, the program brings a cohort of 18-22 undergraduates 
(rising juniors and seniors) from colleges and universities in the U.S. 
to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus for an 
intensive, ten-week research experience. Students are expected to 
develop a 20-page research project under the guidance of a faculty 
mentor with whom they are paired according to areas of study and 
research interests. In addition to meeting at least three times a week 
with faculty mentors, students will attend weekly 3-hour seminars where 
they will present their research and discuss it with faculty and other 
students in the program, receive required biweekly instruction in 
preparation for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), attend biweekly 
writing and presentation skills workshops, and participate in a variety 
of informative workshops, social events and conferences designed to 
expose them to the graduate experience. Participants will submit their 
final research paper based on their project and must receive approval 
through the signature of their faculty mentor. For a student to complete 
the program successfully and receive the entire stipend, participation 
in all of these activities and completion of the research paper are 
required.  A sample calendar of required activities and deadlines is 
available on our website.*

*For their participation in the program, student fellows will receive a 
generous stipend of $3500 (in the case of students holding Mellon Mays 
Undergraduate Fellowships, they receive the difference between their 
summer stipend and MURAP's), an allowance for meals of $1450 and travel 
allowance up to $500 to cover the cost of transportation to and from 
Chapel Hill.  Additionally, students will be provided on-campus housing 
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. *

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    *Applying to MURAP*
    *APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 5, 2010*

*Program applicants should be mindful that MURAP offers an intensive 
research experience which requires a substantial commitment of time, 
intellectual resources and effort.  Therefore, students may not be 
employed or take classes while enrolled in the program.  Student fellows 
are selected based on a variety of factors that may include their 
academic promise, clarity and quality of their statement of research 
interests, availability of an appropriate mentor match, their 
demonstrated commitment to increasing opportunities for underrepresented 
minorities in academic settings in the fields designated above, serious 
intent to pursue graduate (as opposed to professional) studies, and 
willingness and ability to participate in all aspects of the MURAP 
program. *

*Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents, must have 
completed at least four semesters of undergraduate study, and must have 
at least one semester of undergraduate work remaining when they enter 
MURAP. *

*In completing the statement included in the application, students must 
demonstrate clearly their fit with and suitability for the program given 
MURAP's mission and selection criteria. For more information about the 
program and to learn how to apply please visit the MURAP website 
http://www.unc.edu/depts/murap/index.html.*

*Rising seniors applying to MURAP should consider applying 
simultaneously to the Associate Program of the Institute for Recruitment 
of Teachers (IRT), as it would be of great help during the graduate 
school application process.  For more information consult 
http://www.andover.edu/irt.*



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