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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
RESEARCH PREPARES
UNDERGRADUATES AS
Thinkers
AScholars
BY
n anc k / s tAn idea for a never-written poem Walt Whitman scribbled on a calling card
and an article Edgar Allan Poe wrote about photography were some of the treasures
Wyn Gregory uncovered in a search for never-published documents by 19th-century
American writers.
"It was detective work," says Gregory, who looked for materials for an anthol-
ogy of American Renaissance literature as a senior at the University of North Texas.
The anthology of works published between the late 1830s and 1860 is being edited
by Ian Finseth, assistant professor of English.
"I'd studied Poe and Whitman, but I also found works by a large number of
authors that I'd never heard of before," Gregory says. "These writers were very popu-
lar at the time."
Gregory, who received his bachelor's degree in English literature in May
2009, was one of seven students in the Department of English who received an
Undergraduate Research Fellowship for the 2008-09 academic year. The fellowships
provided each student with a salary to work 10 hours a week for a total of 100 hours
on a research project with a faculty member.UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH
INITIATIVE
UNT's Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Program, which funded projects in the
Department of English and the Department of
Foreign Languages and Literatures in 2008-09,
served as a pilot program for the university's
Undergraduate Research Initiative.
The new initiative is providing grant money
to seven academic areas for Undergraduate
Research Fellowships for 2009-10: the
Department of English and the Department of
Political Science in the College of Arts and
Sciences, the Department of Marketing and
Logistics in the College of Business, the
Department of Electrical Engineering in the
College of Engineering, the Division of
Composition Studies in the College of Music,
the Department of Design in the College of
Visual Arts and Design, and the School of
Merchandising and Hospitality Management.
The selected undergraduates are paid
for up to 100 hours of research, with a portion
of the funds available for field work or other
enrichment activities for the students and
their faculty mentors. Gloria Cox, dean of the
Honors College and head of the selection
committee, says 19 proposals were submitted
from across the university, "all of them of
excellent quality and worthy of funding."
"Undergraduate research is a win-win-win
situation," she says, "as research enriches
the intellectual experience of our students,
energizes and engages faculty members, and
enhances the quality of the university's
undergraduate program."Undergraduate Research Fellow Megan Trotter helped Kevin Curran,
assistant professor of English, with research for his edition of the
Samuel Daniel play The Tragedy of Philotas. The pilot program led to the
Undergraduate Research Initiative at UNT.S0o0o UNT RESEARCH
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