Office of Undergraduate Research
E-mail: our@cwu.edu
Grants from the Office of Undergraduate Research are competitive—we cannot fund everyone that applies. The information on this page will help you prepare a proposal that has a good chance.
We are happy to talk with you about your grant application. You can:
Although you will submit your application online, you can download a PDF of the application to prepare your materials.
Talk with your mentor well in advance of the deadline and discuss whether or not you should apply. Discuss what would be in your project description and your budget. Make sure your mentor knows that they will have to write a letter of support for you.
If you are part of a group, select one student to take the lead on submitting the application, and make sure that the student has everyone's first and last name and CWU email address.
If your research involves animal or human subjects, you will need to provide documentation that you have received approval for your work as part of the application; this can be the letter of approval you and your faculty mentor received from the Human Subjects Review Council (HSRC) or the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC).
The application includes significant written components in addition to information about you, your mentor, and budget. These written sections take time to prepare well.
For research proposals, you need to prepare:
A well-considered budget is a very important part of your proposal. Please show real, total costs in your budget. Although the amount of funding you can receive from the OUR is limited, the budget should accurately reflect all of your expenses.
Put your budget together using a spreadsheet (template and example provided below).
Your budget should include:
Your budget justification helps us interpret your budget. It describes why you need what you've asked for, and how you calculated the costs. The budget justification should be written in paragraph or bullet list form, or a combination of the two.
A letter of support from your mentor is an important part of your application—and it's required. Talk with your mentor and make sure he/she/they know what they need to do. The letter should be specific to you and your project, written on letterhead, and needs to be submitted alongside the other required documents in the application.
It is the responsibility of the student(s) applying to obtain the letter of support from their mentor and submit it in the application. Your application will not submit without the letter of support being uploaded.
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