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Saint Mary's College offers students and faculty a unique and extraordinary opportunity to conduct research and engage in creative activity, on a one-to-one basis, through the Student Independent Study and Research awards. These prestigious awards are given to student-faculty partnerships to support research and study for two months during the summer. The student, usually a rising senior, pursues her research as a junior colleague with the faculty partner. The student's research may complement the faculty member's in a similar area, or the team may share a project. Even if the projects are closely related, the student is encouraged to develop her own agenda and pursue her own investigations independently. Alternatively, the project may be distantly related in subject matter but very closely related in method or intellectual field. The student's SISTAR experience is a model for graduate work for her career after college, and fosters her personal development as a confident independent scholar. The faculty member benefits from the opportunity to engage in a high level of cooperative learning with an advanced student. One of the awards, the Maryjeanne R. Burke and Daughters SISTAR, supports an untenured faculty member in her/his student partnership. 2008 Application deadline: Monday, March 10, 2008, 5:00 p.m. in the Center for Academic Innovation 146 Madeleva Hall Application Guidelines • Previous SISTAR Awards Eligibility: The SISTAR Program is open to full-time faculty and students in all disciplines. The student and faculty member should apply for the SISTAR program as a team in the spring of the student's junior year. Exceptional sophomores might also be considered. Time commitment: The teams are expected to collaborate for two months during the summer. We encourage innovative approaches for study that afford as much student-faculty interaction as possible. The interaction should be direct and face-to-face rather than remote (e.g., e-mail). Funding: The student will receive a taxable stipend of $3,500 plus lodging for eight weeks residence on campus. The faculty member will receive a taxable stipend of $3,500 to support the faculty member's own research. The grant will also support travel for the student to attend a professional conference in the next academic year. Project description: Collaboration and cooperation are necessary throughout the process, with faculty and student sharing drafts of the application and preparing for the interview. The proposal should be four to six typewritten double-spaced pages for items 1-3.
Interview: The SISTAR Committee, which consists of the CFAI Grants Committee plus two students, interviews the SISTAR applicants, faculty and student together, following the initial application. The interview, which lasts about 30 minutes, assesses student and faculty interaction, preparation for, and commitment to the project. Saint Mary's College and the Center for Academic Innovation supports up to three SISTAR teams and an additional SISTAR, the Maryjeanne R. Burke and Daughters SISTAR, is funded separately through the generosity of the Burke family.
If you have any questions, please call Deborah McCarthy at #4584. Previous SISTAR Award Recipients:
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