University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Undergraduate Student Awards for Academic Excellence
For the seventh consecutive year The University of Texas at Austin, with the generous support of the University Co-op, will recognize up to nine UT undergraduates for superior scholarly or creative achievement. Five students will receive awards of $2,000 each, three students will receive awards of $5,000 each, and one student will be awarded the grand prize of $20,000. The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost provides a concurrent award of half the value of each student's award to the academic department in which the scholarly work was supervised. Recipients will be chosen by the Co-op Awards Selection Committee composed of University faculty.
Faculty members nominate students who have demonstrated superior scholarly or creative achievement through a notable paper or thesis, research project, creative or artistic endeavor, or other product of the student’s academic work. To qualify for an award, nominees must be either a junior or senior currently enrolled at UT Austin or have received their undergraduate degree in December 2008. Submitted work should be finished or close to finished (e.g. a complete draft of a thesis or research paper). Previous University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Award recipients are eligible only if the submitted work is a completely different project.
Nomination form available February 1, 2009.
