OUR Research Travel Awards

The OUR Research Travel Awards will provide up to $500 to undergraduate students for travel to conduct research, such as travel to consult materials in an archive or work with equipment in a national lab. Students may use these awards to pay for travel, parking, meals, and lodging, where permitted by University policy, while away from their home UConn campus. Travel costs incurred as part of UConn coursework are not eligible for this award.

Eligibility

To apply for these awards, students must meet the following requirements:

• Must be an undergraduate enrolled full-time at any campus of the University of Connecticut. Eligibility for funding through Office of Undergraduate Research award programs is restricted to students currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree at UConn. This includes students pursuing Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of General Studies, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, and Bachelor of Social Work degrees.
  Note: Part-time undergraduate students enrolled at any campus of the University of Connecticut may apply for these awards if they have completed at least 60 academic credits (including at least 12 credits at UConn). 
• Must complete the travel associated with this award before graduating from their bachelor’s degree program.
• Must be in good academic standing.
• Must have their faculty advisor on the project submit a recommendation form on their behalf as part of their online application.
• May receive no more than one OUR Research Travel Award during any given academic year.

Award Conditions

• Students engaging in international travel for academic purposes must register with UConn Global Affairs by the UConn Student International Travel Policy. Students will be automatically enrolled and covered by Cultural Insurance Services International (CISI) Health Insurance for the duration of their trips upon their completion of the Global Affairs undergraduate student travel registration form. Learn more about registration with Global Affairs.
• OUR Travel Award recipients must present at the Frontiers in Undergraduate Research Poster Exhibition in the fall or spring of the academic year in which the award was received.
• Recipients must submit the Research Travel Award Research Experience Completion Form by the deadline specified in their award letter.

Benefits

• OUR Research Travel Awards grant up to $500.

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Application Process

• The OUR Research Travel Award application is now open. The OUR Research Travel Award Application Outline.pdf provides a list of all the questions you will need to answer in the online application.
• For guidance on how to use the application management system, please review the Quest Portal User Tips. A complete application consists of the online application, an uploaded Budget Worksheet.docx, and a Travel Award (Conduct) recommendation form to be completed by the faculty advisor of your project.
• Please use the Research Travel Budget Worksheet.docx to generate an itemized budget for your travel; you will be asked to upload this in PDF format as part of the online application. Students applying to conduct research internationally must also complete a Supplemental International Travel Questions form as part of the online application. You will request that your faculty advisor complete a recommendation via the Quest online application system by entering his/her name and email address in the application. The system will send your faculty advisor a personalized link to complete the recommendation form.
• We encourage you to share your application – including your project description and budget – with your faculty advisor so s/he can refer to them when completing the recommendation.
• It is advisable to review the OUR Research Travel Award Application Outline.pdf before completing the online application. The outline lists all the questions you will need to answer and the types of information you will need to provide in the online application.
• Please note that the final question on the application will ask you to certify that you have prepared your application materials by University standards for academic integrity. Learn more about academic integrity.