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    Student-Faculty Collaborative Mini-Grants

    The Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (CURCA) offers mini grants of up to $1000 to student-led teams in all academic areas. The CURCA Student-Faculty Collaborative Mini-Grant is designed to provide undergraduate students with the necessary materials to complete their undergraduate research and creative projects.

    What to Expect

    Funding from this grant may be used to support necessary expenses (materials, supplies, or travel) for conducting your outlined research project. Mini-Grants cannot be used for presenting research at conferences. (For funding to present research, learn about CURCA's Student Travel Grants program.)

    Grantees are required to:

    1. Work closely with their mentor who will submit purchase requests on their behalf to CURCA.
    2. Present their research at either UNG’s Annual Research Conference (ARC), another CURCA-sponsored event, or a disciplinary conference within one year of the close of grant.
    3. Submit a post-award report summarizing the outcomes and products of the funded project by May 1.

    2022 Student-Faculty Collaborative RFP and Rubric (PDF) 

    Am I Eligible?

    The CURCA Student-Faculty Collaborative Mini Grant is open to all currently enrolled UNG undergraduate students in all disciplines and across all campuses.  However, preference will be given to students who are not graduating before spring of the current academic year.

    Application Deadline

    Fall 2023 (date to be determined)

    Apply for Student-Faculty Collaborative Mini-Grant

    Mini-Grant Workshop

    CURCA will host a virtual workshop explaining the mini-grant application process.

    Date: Fall 2023 (date to be determined)

    Recently Funded Mini-Grant Proposals

    The CURCA Mini Grant Program was restructured in 2020 as a collaborative project that is student-led with a faculty mentor.

    • 2022
      • College of Arts & Letters

        • History, Anthropology, & Philosophy

          • Samantha Leach with Dr. Kendy Altizer: Walton Mill Plantation.
        • Political Science & International Affairs

          • Jessica Case and Nathanael Hines with Dr. Bibek Chand: Analyzing Political Rhetoric during War: A Case Study of the Conflict in Ukraine
      • College of Science & Mathematics

        • Biology

          • Callie Mauersberg with Dr. Nancy Dalmanand Dr. Dobrusia Bialonska: Assessment of Vibrio Bacterial Load in Oysters from the Georgia Coast.
          • Brady Cline with Dr. Margaret Smith and Dr. Shane Webb: The effect of pH on the molecular basis of sea urchin arm abnormalities.
          • Ranah Ocampo with Dr. Jo Qian and Dr. Swapna Bhat: Introducing Immunofluorescence Microscopy of Tetrahymena Cells in Cell Biology Lab
        • Biology & Chemistry/Biochemistry

          • Haley Menees and Hannah Menees with Dr. Cathy Whiting: Determining Histological Changes Associated with Vaping Exposure Over Time in the Murine Model.
    • 2021
      • College of Arts & Letters

        • History, Anthropology, & Philosophy

          • Angela Ohler, Ansley Hargreave, Laura Leigh Miller, Jacob Sales with Dr. William Balco: Pollen & Phytolith Analysis of Soil Samples from Rice Farm: Where Archaeology meets Science.
      • College of Science & Mathematics

        • Biology

          • Jared Oenick with Dr. Alison Kanak: Novel technique for the isolation of bacteriophage from environmental samples.
          • Chloe Meewes and Logan Pearson with Dr. Ryan Shanks: Ethogram Development for Trichoplusia ni.
          • William Reeves with Dr. Abby Neyer: Testing North Georgia Pond and Stream Surface Water Quality.
          • Jenna Myers with Dr. Michael Bender: Proposal for CURCA’s Support to Conduct a Novel Railroad-Wildlife Study.
        • Chemistry/Biochemistry

          • Haley Menees and Hannah Menees with Dr. Nichole Hollabaugh and Prof. Andrew Thomas: Chemical Characterization and Reaction Studies of Acetal Formation in Simulated E-Cigarette Liquids by GC/MS and UV-vis.
    • 2020
      • College of Arts & Letters

        • English & Psychological Science

          • Haley Shea Barfield with Dr. Jim Shimkus: Adventures in Transhumanism Demo v3.0: Developing a brain-computer interface (BCI)-controlled interactive hypertext fiction game to educate players on potential issues of emerging technologies and cyber-augmentation.
        • History, Anthropology, & Philosophy

          • Alexandra Correa with Dr. William Balco: Rice Farm Grant Proposal.
        • Psychological Science

          • William Loudermilk and Veronica McClanahan with Dr. Wei-Lun Sun: Studying the Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Carbaryl in Male and Female C57BL/6J Mice.
        • Music

          • Tamara "Tami" Stroup with Dr. Joanna Kim-Doyle: Effective Virtual Music Lessons: Investigating and Adapting Piano Teaching to the Online Setting.
      • College of Science & Mathematics

        • Biology

          • Taylor Berry with Dr. Alison Kanak: Characterization of pleomorphic bacteriophage using Arthrobacter globiformis.
          • Jose Izaguirre Garcia, Lilia Saber and Briana Sargent with Dr. Ghulam Hasnain: Side directed mutagenesis studies of PyrD and PyrR genes involved in riboflavin biosynthesis.
          • Neil Patel and Melanie Majors with Dr. Linda Purvis: Molecular characterization and bacterial strain differentiation of songbird Mycoplasma gallisepticum isolates.
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        • Physics

          • Rebecca Corley with Dr. Sonny Mantry: Probing Nuclear Structure and Dynamics at the Electron-Ion Collider.
        • Chemistry/Biochemistry

          • Isabelle Pobanz with Prof. L. Zane Miller and Dr. Eric Huddleston: Forming a Copper Peptide-Based Hydrogel Through Flow Chemistry.
          • Meghan Richter with Prof. Ryan Meier: N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes of Nickel: An Examination of Synthetic Options and Targets.
    For faculty-led mini-grants funded in the past, review our funded mini-grants archive.
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