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Pulin Sampat Memorial Award for Undergraduate Research

 

IPFW students who have conducted undergraduate research may be eligible for the annual Pulin Sampat Memorial Undergraduate Research Award.

A five-member panel of judges, comprised of four faculty members from four different schools within IPFW as well as one undergraduate judge selected by the International Students' Organization, will select the winner. The recipient of this award will receive a $250 prize and will be recognized at the IPFW Honors Convocation in October 2006.

Following are the terms and conditions of the award:

  • The applicant must be an IPFW undergraduate at the time the research was conducted.
  • The research may be in any discipline and conducted with or without the supervision of an IPFW faculty member, and in or not in an IPFW course.
  • The research may or may not have been published.
  • The applicant must be an IPFW undergraduate or a graduate who earned an undergraduate degree at IPFW within the past year.

The applicant must explain the nature and significance of the research in sufficient detail to enable the faculty and undergraduate judges in unrelated disciplines to evaluate it accurately.

Call for Applications and the Application Form will be made available in the "Proceedings: Student Research and Creative Endeavor Symposium" publication in April of 2006.

 

Pulin Sampat

Pulin Sampat, an undergraduate student who took full advantage of the research opportunities here at IPFW and went on to conduct graduate research at Brandeis University, died tragically in 1996. Pulin's family and the many friends he made while attending IPFW, both student and faculty, created and funded an award in his memory.

Previous Recipients

2005
Jeremy A. Ganshorn

2004
Ryan G. Baird

2003
Linda C. Fox

2002
Elizabeth J. Quinn

2001
Heidi D. Saliba

2000
Aaron R. Wartenberg

1999
Steven F. Murphy

1998
Pamela B. Bell
First Award Recipient