Act on Ideas

• Any current TAMIU undergraduate full-time students with a 3.2 minimum GPA.
• All majors and concentrations are welcome.

Unfortunately, students are not eligible to participate in the URF once they have graduated from TAMIU.

• Encouraged to disseminate their results at a professional conference.
  • For students awarded during the Fall semester, you may consider presenting results at the Texas A&M University System (TAMUS) Annual Pathways Student Research Symposium
  • For students awarded during the Spring semester you may consider presenting at the LBV Conference at TAMIU.

• Travel funds to facilitate conference presentations resulting from these research, scholarly, or creative projects may be available for fellows and faculty through a separate application process.
  • Download a Travel Application at: http://www.tamiu.edu/actonideas/

• Required to submit periodic Progress Reports.
• Required to present findings of the project to a multidisciplinary group of TAMIU faculty toward the end of the semester when the URF funding was awarded.

If awarded with the URF, students will be hired as Student Research Assistants (SRAs) working up to 19 hours per week at $10 per hour. Students receive travel funds to present their research findings at local, regional, state, national, and/or international conferences. $500 stipend is awarded to the faculty member for mentoring and guiding the fellow throughout the research project.

Students can apply by completing a Student Travel Fund Request form. To access form click on the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/TQbExcyMYP

For Student Travel Fund information go to: http://www.tamiu.edu/actonideas/travel.shtml.

All undergraduate students can apply for the URF. Students that are part of the Honors program must show in the URF application that the proposed research to be conducted has been approved by your Faculty Mentor.

All current TAMIU Full-time Faculty and Instructors are eligible to mentor a project as part of the URF.

Mentors will help guide students through their research project and should work with you on a regular basis to help guide you through your project.

Both, students and their mentors, are required to submit an application for consideration in the URF. This is done to ensure that students and their mentors are each committed to the proposed project and appear to have a common understanding of the work that will be done to complete the project as part of the URF. If your mentor is supporting the application of two students, he/she should complete a separate Mentor Application Form for each applicant.

Yes! Students who successfully complete the first awarded semester are encouraged to continue their URF project. Students who are making satisfactory progress on their project may continue in the program until the project is complete and/or they graduate.

If you wish to receive funding for subsequent semesters, you must formally reapply to URF and submit a new proposal every semester.

This should not be an exact copy of your previously successful proposal but a continuation of it.

The committee has higher expectations for repeat proposals and generally gives preference to new students.

Typically, students are not funded more 2 or 3 times from this program.

Contact the QEP-ACT on IDEAs

by sending an email to honors@tamiu.edu

or stop by our office in Killam Library 419-H.