The Ellison Medical Foundation/Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (EMF/CTEGD) Training Innovations in Parasitologic Studies (TIPS) Program
The EMF/CTEGD TIPS program is funded through the generosity of the Ellison Medical Foundation
to provide international research training opportunities for UGA
undergraduates, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars, and research
training opportunities at UGA for advanced international trainees associated
with CTEGD overseas research programs. This unique bi-directional research
training grant will select trainees through competitive application processes
and offers trainees at various levels of research expertise project-related
training opportunities in international settings.
The undergraduate component of the EMF/CTEGD TIPS program is implemented
by the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities
(CURO) of UGA through CURO's well established Summer Research Fellowships
Program and is called the CURO/CTEGD Summer Research Fellowship. The
program is designed to provide international research opportunities with
overseas CTEGD collaborators, to UGA undergraduate students who already have
research experience with a CTEGD faculty member. Students will apply to CURO as
for other CURO Summer Research Fellowships. In addition, their applications
will require a supporting letter by a member of the CTEGD faculty and assurance
of acceptance by the proposed collaborating overseas laboratory. Further
information on the application process can be found at the CURO
website and below. The CURO/CTEGD Summer Research Fellowship will
provide a stipend, round-trip economy air fare, subsistence (meals &
lodging), and some incidental associated expenses, such as visa fees and
immunizations.
The UGA graduate student and post-doctoral scholar component of the
EMF/CTEGD TIPS program is implemented by the CTEGD, and is designed to provide
CTEGD graduate students and post-doctoral scholars with research training
opportunities of 2-3 months in the international laboratories of CTEGD
collaborators. The international trainee portion of the EMF/CTEGD TIPS
program offers trainees in CTEGD international collaborating laboratories
opportunities to spend 2-3 month periods of research training in CTEGD
laboratories at UGA. Competitions for these fellowships are held 3 times a year
(deadlines for applications are February 15, June 15 and October 15 each year),
and instructions and regulations for applications can be found below. Funding
provided can include round-trip economy air fare, subsistence (meals &
lodging), and some incidental associated expenses. It is important that you contact Erica Young at emyoung@uga.edu for assistance
with preparing your proposal budget in regard to costs for your visa fees and
other regulations to consider that are applicable to international visitors.
CURO/CTEGD Summer
Research Fellowships
(undergraduates)
Regulations and Instructions
The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities in cooperation with the
CTEGD will fund two undergraduate
research fellowships for the summer. The fellowship travel award of $2,500 will be made through the CTEGD at
the beginning of summer term.
The selection process is competitive. Applications will be reviewed by the
CURO/CTEGD Summer Research Fellowship Selection Committee based on the
following criteria:
- Students must have a 3.4 UGA grade point average.
Students are not required to be in the Honors Program to be considered for
this fellowship.
- Students must enroll in a minimum of six hours of
4000 level research courses for the regular summer term. (Maymester
students will not qualify.)
- An abstract of the summer research project must be
submitted for presentation at the CURO Symposium.
- Students must also adhere to other departmental or
program requirements in order to petition for credit in their major.
- Recipients will also be invited to make guest
presentations throughout the academic year to other UGA undergraduates.
- The quality of the international research opportunity
represented by the proposal
Students should submit a cover letter and a proposal describing the project with a letter of support from CTEGD faculty usually by the end of February to Dr. Pamela Kleiber, CURO Summer Research Fellowships, Honors Program, 203 Moore College, Campus. Recipient will be announced at the CURO Symposium, normally in mid-April. Only students who are registered for six hours of academic undergraduate research will be eligible for the fellowship. Students should call the CURO Honors Program office to check deadlines and verify current requirements subject to change by CURO, 542-3240. The CTEGD will administer the awards. Contact Erica Young at emyoung@uga.edu or 583-0861 if you have award administration questions.
Graduate Student and
Post-doctoral Fellowships
Regulations and Instructions
Eligibility
A USA-based applicant must be a member of a CTEGD faculty member's laboratory
and have been in the laboratory long enough for the faculty member to vouch
for, and therefore sponsor, their application. An overseas applicant must be a
member of a laboratory that actively collaborates with a CTEGD faculty member,
and have the full support of the Principal Investigator (PI) of that
collaborating laboratory.
Application
The applicant must submit an application (not more than 2 pages in length) that
they have written, with the assistance of their mentor, and this application
should address the following issues: the nature of the overall project of which
this training is a part; the research that will be done during the training
period requested; the time and location of the proposed training; the reason
why this training should be done in this location; how the requested training
will further the goals of the applicant; a proposed budget; and the source of the
funding that will support the actual research of the proposed training. The
applicant must also indicate their agreement to submit a written report of
their training within 30 days of their return, and if they are a USA-based
applicant to submit a presentation or poster abstract to the CTEGD Molecular
Parasitology/Vector Biology annual symposium the year following their training.
The
application must also include a letter of support (1 page should be sufficient)
from the trainee's direct mentor (either a CTEGD faculty member or the
overseas PI collaborator of a CTEGD faculty member). This letter should address
the quality of the applicant and the application, and how this research
experience will contribute to the applicant's research training.
The application must also include a letter of support (1 page should be
sufficient) from the proposed mentor at the site of the proposed training
(either a CTEGD laboratory or a CTEGD collaborating laboratory overseas). This
letter must indicate a willingness to accept the applicant in the laboratory
for a specified period of time, and a willingness to provide assistance to the
applicant with local living situations, as well as guidance and mentoring
during the research at the proposed site of training.
Timing of application submissions
Applications must be submitted to the Director of CTEGD (see below for address
information) by 5:00pm on the following deadline dates to be considered for
awards that will be initiated by 2-3 months following the deadline dates. If
the deadline date falls on a weekend or UGA holiday, applications are due by
5:00pm on the next business day. Deadline dates: February 15; June 15; October
15.
Selection Process
Application evaluations will be done by a CTEGD subcommittee comprised of the
CTEGD Director and 2 CTEGD faculty members selected for each evaluation session
by the CTEGD Director. CTEGD faculty members who are sponsoring an application
for that evaluation session will not be selected by the CTEGD Director for that
subcommittee. If the CTEGD Director is sponsoring one or more applicants he
will not participate in the evaluations of those applications that involve his
laboratory.
Evaluation of the application packet will be based on the candidate, the
project, the perceived research training advantage of the project to the
trainee and the support letters. Announcements of the awards for any given
evaluation session will be made by the CTEGD Director within 3 weeks of the
application receipt date. All applicants will be informed of the evaluation
outcomes, but individual critiques will not be provided.
Awards
Funding to be provided can include economy round-trip airfare, subsistence
(meals & lodging), and incidental associated expenses (ground
transportation, visa fees, immunizations, excess laboratory-associated baggage
charges, communication charges). The length of time of the award should be
between approximately 8 weeks and 6 months.
Post-Training Report
This report should be submitted within 30 days after research training
experience has ended. It should be between 1 and 3 pages in length (no more),
and must be submitted in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font size. The report should
contain the following information:
- Trainee name
- Dates spent
- Location of training
- Name of training mentor on site (if applicable)
- Overall costs incurred (total amount needed for
travel, subsistence, other expenses, etc.)
- Title of training project
- Less than 250 word summary/abstract of project and
findings
- Accomplishments during training -- level of detail is
up to the trainee, but needs to explain why they did the project, what
they did on the project (themselves), and what they think it means. It
could be written succinctly as a narrative or in a manuscript format.
- A statement about what opportunities this fellowship
provided that you would not otherwise have had.
Application and Post-Training Reports