OVPR OUR Undergraduate Research Awards

Thank you for participating in the FY 2025 Undergraduate Research Award program sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) through the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR).

The guiding principle of these awards is that the funding is to follow the undergraduate researcher – i.e., the awards are solely to support the undergraduate researcher’s activities. While the Colleges have discretion on how the funds are spent, OUR has established allowable expenditure guidelines as follows:

OUR recommends that funding be made through both Payment Request Document (PRD) and Payments on Behalf of Students (PBS) forms. If the award is $50 or more, the PRD must contain the name of the award (VPR Undergraduate Research Student Award), the award reference code (VPR-1), and a description of the criteria the College used to select the student.

Recall that no carry-over will be available, and any FY 2025 funds not spent by June 30, 2025, will be pulled back from the account when new funds for FY 2026 are made available.

Three data collection actions, each submitted via webform, are required for every undergraduate research award:

• Pre-award undergraduate researcher and mentor metrics to be completed by a College representative. You will receive either an Approval or Request for More Information email from OUR. 

• OUR Award Account Reconciliation report to be completed by a College representative 

• Post-award undergraduate researcher and mentor reports to be completed by the respective undergraduate researcher and mentor

• Long-term undergraduate researcher and mentor questionnaires to be completed by the respective undergraduate researcher and mentor