Undergraduates

• The Summer Pre-Graduate Research Experience (SPGRE) Program – a ten-week summer research program accommodating a wide-range of majors for undergraduate students from institutions across the nation.  To date, 700 students have participated in SPGRE and more than 70 percent pursue graduate studies with more than 100 who have received the Ph.D. degree. 
• Research support stipends starting at $2,000/semester for PhD-bound undergraduates
• Matching of students with research at the renowned Odum Institute for Research in Social Science and the internationally known Carolina Population Center, as well as other participating departments (listed below.)

Graduates

• Up to $4000 in Research Assistantship Stipend Top-up or Supplement for entering PhD students
• Supplemental research stipend support for entering SBE Ph.D. students, and summer research support for SBE Ph.D. students between their first and second year
• Up to $6000 Research Assistantship Stipend
• Statistical Methods Summer Institute for Entering PhD students:  class and housing costs provided

Participating Departments

Anthropology

City & Regional Planning
Economics
Political Science
Psychology
Public Policy Analysis
Sociology
Odum Institute for Research in Social Science

Downloads

2007 SPGRE PDF Flyer

Valerie S. Ashby, Ph.D.      

Professor, Department of Chemistry

T) 919.962.3663
ashby@email.unc.edu

Kathy Wood, Executive Program Manager
Research Education Support Program
T) 919.962.2509

F) 919-843-2554
kathy_wood@unc.edu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Chemistry, CB#3290

Kenan Labs, Suite A207
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3290
         

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