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The newspaper of The Johns Hopkins University January 30, 2006 | Vol. 35 No. 19
 
Applications Now Available to Students for 2006 PURAs

Last year, one winner of a Provost's Undergraduate Research Award used her funding to study 19th-century American iron truss bridges to determine whether they fit the definition of structural art. Another conducted epidemiological studies in a remote Indian village. Yet another headed to the Shetland Isles to explore Scottish folk music.

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.

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 from the office of Theodore Poehler, vice provost for research, at 265 Garland Hall, Homewood campus, or by phone at 410-516-8671. Summer 2006 proposals are due by noon on Monday, March 20.

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