Science, humanities faculty needed for URSA review board

September 10, 2020

University Relations

The Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Activity Office is seeking full-time and term faculty members to serve on the URSA review board. This group receives student project and travel proposals during the academic year. Each student or mentor proposal is reviewed by four faculty — two from the sciences and two from the arts and humanities. There are five funding opportunities each academic year.

Each proposal round, we email the timeline, ask for reviewer volunteers, and allow three weeks for the reviewers to complete their scores. All the work is done online — no meetings to attend, no paper is wasted, etc. On average, each person receives five to 10 applications, and each application takes 5-10 minutes to evaluate. If you are unavailable for a proposal round, we’ll ask again for the next round. All reviews are double blind, and we do not send applications from a mentor’s department to reviewers to avoid conflicts of interest.

If you are interested ​or would like more information, ​please visit www.uaf.edu/ursa/, call 450-8772 or stop by Bunnell 301.