Last year, one winner of a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award used her funding to investigate the origins of a mysterious carving from the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Collection. Another traveled to sub-Saharan South Africa to participate in a clinical study on measures to prevent the spread of HIV-AIDS among women in that region.

This year, another group of undergraduates in the schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Nursing and in the Peabody Conservatory will have the opportunity to conduct original research, guided by a faculty sponsor, through the PURA program. The maximum amount of the awards is $3,000, which can be used to defray costs associated with the project, such as expendable supplies and related travel. The research is conducted in either the summer or the fall, with the option of receiving academic credit, and any freshman, sophomore or junior is eligible to apply. In 2006, 45 awards were granted.

Students from all disciplines are encouraged to submit proposals; sponsors must be full-time faculty but can be from any division of the university. Applications are now available online at www.jhu.edu/pura.

Summer proposals are due by noon on Friday, March 9, and fall proposals by noon on Wednesday, April 11, in the office of Theodore Poehler, vice provost for research, 276 Garland Hall, Homewood campus.

For more information, call 410-516-8671.

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