The Purdue University Calumet Student Research Office

The Student Research Office at Purdue University Calumet exists to help students participate in research and scholarly activities, in collaboration with Purdue Calumet faculty. The Student Research Office was developed in the fall semester of 2005 to coordinate the many aspects and programs of student research at PUC. A mission of the Student Research Office is to expand research opportunities for PUC students through internal and external programs.

Research is performed in the many disciplines at PUC, where a student and his or her faculty sponsor work together on a project of mutual interest. The mentoring relationship developed through the research and scholarly process is beneficial to the student and to the faculty member. Students have the opportunity to participate in a research project from beginning to end, to go beyond classroom experience and to investigate an idea in great depth. Faculty enjoy being able to move beyond classroom examples with students who are actively engaged in the discovery process.

There are several programs coordinated by the Student Research Office, including the Undergraduate Research Grant Program (URGP) which funds equipment and supplies for a research project, the Student-Faculty Research Collaboration Award (SFCA) which funds travel for students when they accompany a faculty member to present their research work results or perform research off-campus, the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) which gives awards to the top research projects done by undergraduates at PUC and the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) an NSF sponsored program which supplies a stipend to undergraduate students to do research in the fields of science, technology and mathematics for a spring or summer semester. There are specific application dates for the URGP, USRA and LSAMP programs, whereas the SFCA program has an open application process that can be submitted at any time.

Other activities of the Student Research Office are to act as a clearinghouse of information for students to find research opportunities and conferences to present their results outside Purdue Calumet and to host the Purdue Calumet Student Research Day.

Please read the following describing the programs and important dates.

Fall 2008 Important Dates

Student Research Office Sponsored Programs - Fall 2008 Awards
www.calumet.purdue.edu/studentresearch

Undergraduate Research Grant Program (URGP)

Student Research Office Sponsored Programs - Spring 2008 Awards

Undergraduate Research Grant Program (URGP)

NSF - Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Other Student Research Programs

2008 Joint CSUI Research Conference and Argonne National Laboratory 19th Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics

Indiana LSAMP AGAP Joint Conference, University Inn, West Lafayette, Indiana

URGP
Undergraduate Research Grant Program:
A grant program to provide funds, up to $750 per student, to undergraduate students to do research at PUC along with PUC faculty members, open to all academic fields.

LSAMP
Louis Stokes Alliance Minority Program:
A NSF sponsored program designed to encourage undergraduate students to do research in the STEM programs: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Provides a stipend to the student to do research in the Spring and Summer semesters

USRA
Undergraduate Student Research Award
Ten awards of $300 each will be presented to undergraduate students in recognition of their research efforts associated with PUC. Students who are nominated will submit their research paper or scholarly project for evaluation. This award is open to all academic fields.

SFRCA
Student - Faculty Research Collaboration Award
Awards of up to $300 will be available to students when they travel with their faculty mentor to a conference to give a presentation of their research. Awards up to $1000 when a student travels with their faculty mentor to do research work outside of PUC. This award is open to all academic fields and has a rolling application process.

SRD
Student Research Day
A day long event honoring and presenting the research work of PUC students. Sessions include: Oral presentations, USRA presentation, poster presentations, symposium on research topics for students and faculty.

Purdue System Research Symposium
A research competition for graduate and undergraduate students from the five Purdue University campuses, Calumet, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, North Central and West Lafayette. Each campus will select 12 students to give presentations before a panel of faculty members from each campus.