2016-17 HURA APPLICANT INFORMATION
Primary Student Investigator:
First name
Last name
Preferred Telephone Number
NAU email
Anticipated Date of Graduation: Semester select
Year select
Academic Major:
Co-Investigator 1 (if applicable)
First name
Last name
NAU email
Anticipated Date of Graduation: Semester select
Year select
Academic Major:
Co-Investigator 2 (if applicable)
First name
Last name
NAU email
Anticipated Date of Graduation: Semester select
Year select
Academic Major:
PROJECT INFORMATION
Title of Project:
Project Start Date:
Project must begin after July 1, 2016
Project End Date:
Project must end by April 30, 2017
Project Budget Total Request:
Maximum amount: $3,500
Does your project involve human subjects? select
If yes, has the IRB determined whether your project is likely to be subject to review/approval? select
Does your project involve vertebrate animals? select
If yes, have you contacted the IACUC to find out what the requirements will be? select
ABSTRACT (maximum 1000 characters):
Applicant’s Certification
My electronic "signature" below indicates my understanding that any funds paid directly to me (i.e.,
via payroll) under the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award (HURA) may have the effect of
reducing amounts that may be otherwise payable to me through Financial Aid.
Sign by entering 7-digit Student ID No.
STUDENT APPLICANT SECTION OF THIS COVER SHEET ENDS HERE.
Student now sends ALL required documents (the complete application proposal saved as a
MS Word document: description, timeline, references cited, resume(s), and budget) AND a
PDF of the student’s unofficial transcript to the faculty mentor for review and completion of
Faculty Mentor Recommendation section below. The mentor saves the Word application
document as a PDF.
The Faculty Mentor must forward the complete application portfolio (2 PDFs: application and
unofficial transcript) to ug-research@nau.edu by the 11:59pm March 1 deadline.
NOTE: It is the student applicant’s responsibility to confirm that the faculty mentor has
completed this process.
FACULTY MENTOR RECOMMENDATION (TO BE COMPLETED BY MENTOR AFTER FINAL REVIEW OF APPLICATION)
First name
Last name
NAU email
Title (e.g., Assistant Prof)
College
select
Department
Campus Phone
Please respond to the following questions.
Describe your assessment of the student’s ability to conduct the proposed project.
Describe the relationship between the student’s project and your own research, scholarly, or creative
activities, if any.
Describe your role in assisting the student in planning and conducting the proposed project.
Describe your past or present experience supervising this student as a research assistant, in a
course, or in a directed study project. Describe the quality of the student’s work in that capacity (if
applicable).
Provide any additional comments that are relevant.
Responses to the following are mandatory:
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I spoke to the student about this project. select
I read the student’s final proposal. select
This project takes place during summer. I agree to actively mentor the student during this time.
select
I agree to mentor the student throughout the project period. select
The student has sufficient budgetary support from all sources to complete this project. select
The timeline proposed by the student is realistic. select
Project Description:
Timeline:
Time Period
Summer Session II
September-October
October-November
NovemberDecember
Winter Break
January-February
February-March
Activities, Accomplishments, Outcomes
# of
Personnel
Hours
Nonpersonnel
Expenses
March-April
References Cited:
Qualifications of the Applicant(s):
BUDGET:
FY2016-17 HURA Budget Template
Date:
Applicant:
Project Title:
HURA
BUDGET
Budget Summary
Funding
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[SOURCE]
Funding
#3
[SOURCE]
Funding
#4
[SOURCE]
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$0
$0
$0
$0
$0
Personnel
Student Wages:
All students are paid at the rate of $10.00 per hour
Number of Hrs Per Week
Name of Student
Summer
Fall
Spring
Number of Weeks
Summer
Fall
Spring
0
0
0
0
0
Subtotal Wages
$0
Operations
Itemize expendable supplies and contractual services, as appropriate.
Unit Cost
Quantity
Widgets
Thingamajigs
Fuzzy things
Copy charges
0
0
0
0
0
Subtotal Operations
$0
Travel [may not exceed $500]
Enter all values associated with travel costs only in the colored cells below.
Allowance
per mile
In-State Mileage
In-State Lodging
In-State Registration
Out-of-State Mileage
Out-of-State Lodging
Out-of-State Registration
Out-of-State Airfare
Number
of miles
Lodging
per night
Funding
#2
[SOURCE]
Funding
#3
[SOURCE]
Funding
#4
[SOURCE]
Number
of nights
0.445
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0.445
Subtotal Travel
$0
$0
$0
$0
Total Costs
$0
$0
$0
$0
Budget Justification
Examples:
Personnel
During the first four weeks of my project I will be acquiring seismic data from USGS archives and investigating other sources. I will be doing a preliminary
analysis of each data set acquired from the USGS and other sources. After all the acquired data has been analyzed I will organize it into time series maps of
seismic activity. This will take a total of 48 hours.
During the next seven weeks I will be acquiring and organizing the ASTER data provided by my mentor. There will be a series of weeks where I will be
collecting new ASTER data and organizing the data chronologically. This will take a total of 84 hours.
After all the sufficient amount of data has been collected and organized a preliminary analysis will take place for the last three weeks of the semester and I
will need to analyze and interpret all the organized data. This will take a total of 36 hours.
After winter break, I will be analyzing and interpreting ASTER data for five weeks which will take a total of 60 hours.
The following five weeks I will be synthesizing data analysis from both data sets from seismic activity and ASTER. This will take 60 hours.
The last four weeks I will be preparing for a final report, poster, and presentation. This will take a total of 48 hours.
Operations
The budget for supplies will include ten 7.5" topographic base maps at $15 each ordered online from the USGS. 100 photo copies for other printed sources of
spring and site localities at $0.10 per copy, and one full color poster at $36 from the Physics Department printing service.
A case of 50 six-well plates available from Sigma-Aldrich is to be used in my in vitro cell experimentation. Human and mouse TLR 1-9 agonist kits are available
from invivogen life sciences and is more cost-effective compared to purchasing individual TLR ligand reagents. Roughly 19 different primer sets are anticipated
to be ordered or designed. If this value changes, budget modifications will be sought out. The Qiagen RNeasy mini extraction kit provides RNA extraction for up
to 50 samples; sufficient for my entire project. cDNA synthesis kit is to be purchased from Fermentas and is necessary for the eventual use of PCR in my project.
Traditional and real-time (qPCR) PCR master mixes are incorporated into the budget for use in PCR methodologies. Disposable reagents budget includes
RNase/DNase free pipette tips used in PCR, as well as pipette tips used in cell culture work.
Travel
Driving to Sunset Crater location is about 50 miles round trip. I expect to be driving out there about 11 times to collect root samples and to measure seedlings
and tree growth.
I will also be travelling to San Francisco, California to present my findings at AGU. I will fly there and stay 2 nights at a hotel not hosted by the conference.