Ashton Award for Student Research 2025 (up to $4,000)

Deadline: February 1, 2025

Applications are open for the Ashton Award for Student Research 2025. The Ashton Award for Student Research helps investigations by graduate and superior undergraduate college students engaged on Asian tropical forest biology. The Ashton Award for Student Research is made attainable by the generosity of Professor Peter Ashton and his spouse Mary Ashton by the Peter and Mary Ashton Training Fund.

Award

• Awards of up to $4,000 are granted to assist pupil analysis bills.

Eligibility

• Award out there to superior undergraduates and graduate college students.
• The award just isn’t restricted to universities within the United States or to US residents.

Selection Criteria

Awards are granted by a aggressive overview course of. Selection of recipient(s) will probably be based mostly on:

• the tutorial background of the scholar and their readiness to conduct the proposed analysis;
• the standard of the proposed analysis;
• the relevance of the proposed analysis to the mission of the Arnold Arboretum.

Application

To be thought of for an award, on-line functions ought to embody the next:

• Cover letter.
• Research assertion. The assertion needs to be 1 to 2-pages and describes your analysis challenge and the way extra funding by way of the Ashton Award would additional your analysis goals. Include the names of different collaborators (as well as to your advisor). References needs to be included however don’t rely as a part of the web page restrict.
• Research funds. Applicants ought to submit a easy, 1-page funds that itemizes the analysis and journey prices related to the proposed challenge.
• Project timeline. Applicants ought to submit a timeline of the challenge and anticipated begin and finish dates.
• Curriculum vitae.
• Two letters of advice. As a part of the net submission, you have to ship a request to the 2 referees to submit a letter of advice (by way of the request part). The referee will probably be robotically despatched an e mail with a hyperlink to an internet submission kind the place they’ll add a letter of advice. It is very really helpful that you simply contact your referee prior to sending the request. Inform the referee to anticipate an e mail from [email protected] with directions for submitting a suggestion letter. Each referee should add his/her letter of advice by way of the hyperlink by February 1.

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