Student Research Opportunities

Young Scholars Research Grant

The Young Scholars Program awards individual grants to undergrad students at St. Thomas who are interested in spending an entire summer working closely with a professor on a significant research project or creative activity.

Successful applicants receive a summer stipend of $4000. and free housing on campus (if needed) from the end of May to the middle of August. Young Scholars are expected to work on their research projects full-time over the course of at least 10 weeks.

Please contact a faculty member in the Art History Department to discuss a project you would be interested in.

Application deadline: March 28, 2008

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Art History Undergraduate Senior Presentations

Graduating seniors present their research papers at a symposium in December or early May. The department offers an award in memory of our friend and colleague Mary Towley Swanson for the research paper that is truly outstanding.  Students wishing to be considered for the Mary Towley Swanson Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award should notify their faculty advisor and submit their paper to Mark Stansbury-O'Donnell prior to graduation. The recipient of the award and monetary prize will be notified in the spring.

 

National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)

For more information contact Jennifer Cruise

jlcruise@stthomas.edu

Each year ten to twelve students have been selected and funded by the university to present papers at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research on topics from a variety of disciplines within the curriculum; approximately twenty percent of those chosen for each conference within the last five years have been art history majors or minors. Students submit abstracts and applications on their completed research in late October; abstracts chosen by a rigorous method of selection are then submitted to the national committee; and students are informed about acceptance by February 1. Four students presented their research April, 2005 at the NCUR conference in Lexington, VA. Congratulatiosn to Jesse Burish, Andrew Liaugminas, Emily Place and Michaela Wineman.

The University awards three to four summer stipends of $4000 each to undergraduate students annually (graduating seniors are not eligible). Students submit abstracts and research proposals to a cross-disciplinary university faculty committee in mid-March and decisions are made by April 1. Students who are chosen work on a project full-time for a period of at least ten weeks during the summer. A paper detailing the results of the research project is due in mid-September. Approximately fifteen percent of young scholars summer research awards within the last five years have been earned by art history majors. Marie Wiering was awarded the grant in 2005 for her research titled, St. Michael's Church: The Building of an Icon.

Marie Wiering , October, 2005

 

 Luann Dummer Center for Women Grant

http://www.stthomas.edu/ldcw/grants.htm

The Luann Dummer Center for Women is pleased to offer several grant opportunities for faculty, staff and students. Information for all grants and awards is available in the Center, room 103 OEC.