CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (Fall 2017)

Department Deadline: 10/9/2017
External Deadline: 10/27/2017 by 9:00PM EST

CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Awards Program recognizes undergraduate students in North American universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

Nominees must attend a university or college located in North America, be enrolled as an undergraduate for the entire 2016-2017 academic year (i.e. both semesters), and must be nominated by two faculty members and recommended by the chair of their home department. In the past, preference has been given to students in their senior year.

A cash prize of $1,500 will be awarded to each of two undergraduate students, one female and one male, for travel to a major conference. A small number of other outstanding candidates will be recognized as Runners-Up and Finalists.

No more than two male and two female candidates can be recommended by the same department chair in the same year.

See: http://cra.org/crae/awards/cra-outstanding-undergraduate-researchers/
http://www.cra.org/awards/undergrad-current/

Submission Details (by 10/9/2017)

Required Materials:

Your resume; list any publications. (2-page maximum length.) See guidelines at the bottom of the first link.
One page long description of your research and other achievements. Include a research title/subject and describe the significance of the work as well as your specific contributions. See guidelines at the bottom of the first link.
Unofficial transcripts. Unofficial transcripts can be obtained for free at: https://apps.uillinois.edu/selfservice/
Letters of support. Have your faculty research supervisor and a second faculty member (ideally, who can comment on your research) submit letters of support. (2-page maximum length.) Have them see the guidelines at the bottom of the first link.

Materials should be submitted by 5:00PM on 10/9/2017 to Samantha Hendon (2237 SC).

Note: Electronic documents are preferred and should be submitted as PDFs, Word documents, or plain-text files. Letters of recommendation should be sent from the letter writer directly to S amantha. Students, please include your NetID in your file names (e.g. netid_cv.pdf).