Early Undergraduate Research Opportunity (EURO) program

Faculty program to help get early-career students started in undergraduate research

The Early Undergraduate Research Opportunity (EURO) program provides Buffalo State students with an early undergraduate research experience by assisting a faculty member on a scholarly project. Recruited students may support more advanced students (undergraduate and/or graduate) or the faculty member's research/scholarly/creative activities.  Applications from faculty are generally accepted during the first month of each Fall and Spring semester.

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Description

Program Details

Students are eligible to receive a stipend of $1000 (EURO) or $500 (micro-EURO) for participation in research, scholarly, or creative activity conducted by a faculty mentor (up to $200 may be awarded for necessary supplies). Applications must be completed by faculty and identify a project task (or set of tasks) to be performed by the student within a time frame of approximately ten (10) weeks/EURO or five (5) weeks/micro-EURO during the course of the semester. When the registration site becomes available, EURO students are required to submit an abstract to SRCC 2024 describing the scholarly outcome of the project.  All EURO awards are subject to IRB restrictions. 

Proposals will be reviewed for completeness, quality of the experience for the student (based on their level of engagement with the project, other students (if applicable) and the faculty mentor), and faculty mentoring plan and prior experience mentoring undergraduates conducting research/scholarly/creative activities.

Eligibility Requirements and Expectations

  1. For the current round of the program, faculty members are limited to a single application involving one student.*
  2. The identified student must be classified as a Freshman or Sophomore with at least 12 credits awarded from Buffalo State and less than 60 total credit hours completed by the end of the Spring 2024 semester (note: any AP or similar credits from high school should be excluded from this calculation).
  3. A student may participate in EURO only once. However, micro-EURO project recipients will remain eligible for Fall 2024 full EURO funding if other eligibility requirements are also met.
  4. The recruited student should contribute to the faculty member's research/scholarly/creative activities and conduct a modest project of their own that complements the research/scholarly/creative activity for which they are providing assistance.
  5. The student are strongly encouraged to submit an application and present at the 2025 Student Research and Creativity Conference (SRCC) being held at Buffalo State (May 2, 2025) so that they may share their experiences as a research assistant and any findings from their project.
  6. Student projects should be planned for a time frame of approximately ten (10) weeks for EURO or five (5) weeks for micro-EURO awards (subject to the discretion of the faculty mentor) and must be completed within the Fall 2024 semester.
  7. Faculty are required to communicate with the research student a minimum of once every week and remain in close communication with the student throughout the experience.

* If funding is available, faculty members may be allowed to recruit a second EURO student. Contact the Office of Undergraduate Research.