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Scholar Dreams

Amid individual goals, Emory Scholars hope to continue expanding the scope of our commitments to academic excellence and positive community change. We want to grow stronger and closer as a group as we live into our legacy.

For more information on any of these Scholar dreams, please contact one of the Emory College Staff persons or visit the Emory Scholars Learnlink conference.

Mentoring Programs

The Emory Scholars also plan to create new mentoring opportunities based on common interests and goals, including--but not limited to--alumni mentors, faculty mentors, and mentor families.

Grant Program

The Scholars' Program wants to help inspire the Scholar community to do the work they love. We hope to soon be able to offer grants for individual or group research, on anything from bacterial growth patterns to Arthurian fiction. We hope to inspire people to excel at doing what they love. If you want to write a grant proposal for lab time and petri dishes, that's great. If you want to write one to travel to the Vatican and sift through papal documents in Italian, that's great too--ideally you'd choose your field of study and your project.

Of course we don't want to limit people to academic pursuits; that's not what life is all about. We want to offer grants for community projects as well--you'd choose the project and the scope. If you want to organize a storytelling session for underprivileged kids, go for it. If you want to set up a Christmas dinner for Atlanta's homeless, we'd love to hear your plans. The Emory Scholars are looking to broaden our horizons by securing grants that would allow scholars to do these kinds of projects. If you are interested in helping the Scholars Program write and receive such grants, please contact one of the Scholars staff members.

Beginning fall 2003, the Office for Undergraduate Education launched the SIRE (Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory) Program. SIRE offers Independant Research Grants and the Faculty Research Program.

SIRE Independent Research Grants provide research support for independent projects related to undergraduate students’ academic work in any field, whether for a course, an honors project, or independent work under the supervision of a faculty mentor. These grants cover costs for student research or creative projects such as the cost of books, travel for the purpose of doing research, mailings, lab materials, small equipment, or other research related expenses. Students receiving grants will be required to present their research and creative projects through opportunities to present research in progress to their peers, research symposia on campus, and national conferences.

The Research Partner Program matches students interested in working on a research project with a faculty member who needs a research assistant. The program offers workshops on research skills and other support to help students be effective researchers for their faculty mentors. Undergraduate research assistants are paid an hourly wage for their work (no academic credit is given). Students selected for the Research Partner Program commit to continue in the program for a full academic year, and work 3-12 hours per week (as specified by faculty mentor). Students in good academic standing who are in their first or second year at Emory are eligible to apply.

For more information on the SIRE Program, please contact Dean Joanne Brzinski at 404-727-6160 or poljb@emory.edu.

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