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Award Information and Eligibility

Applications expected to open in Fall 2024.

 

Eligibility

All awards:

  • Current Rutgers University-Camden student working towards undergraduate degree in any school
  • Individual or team entries accepted (award split evenly between team members)
  • Project should be original work completed for a semester-long, credit-bearing course
  • Project completed anytime from Spring 2023 to Spring 2024
  • Winners agree to a short, public presentation of their research (lightning talk) and to having project added to RUCore

New Researcher Award:

  • Project should be original work completed by a first-year student(s)

Awards

  • First place: $1,000
  • Runner-Up (two awards): $500
  • New Researcher: $250

Applications should include:

  • Your research paper or project in PDF or Word format;
  • a bibliography of sources used in your project in PDF or Word format;
  • and a reflective essay (250-500 words) in PDF or Word format.

Reflective essay (250-500 words) should include:

  • The strategy you used to find resources (e.g. search terms, databases used, etc.);
  • your process for evaluating the resources;
  • and your reasoning for including the specific resources you used.

The Spring 2024 award application is open January 22 through March 17, 2024. Please apply at the application site: https://go.rutgers.edu/PRLresearchaward.