Science, humanities faculty sought for URSA review board
November 16, 2018
Are you looking for service opportunities? Want to learn more about undergraduate
research at UAF? Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a proposal funded by
URSA? Here's your chance to find out!
URSA is seeking full-time and term faculty members to join the URSA review board.
This group receives student project and travel proposals during the academic year
and provides reviews. Each 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
5-10 applications, and each one 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.