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Student Grants and Awards

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies offers funding for undergraduate and graduate scholars to conduct research and creative endeavors as well as showcase their work. The following forms must be submitted through DocuSign.

Contact Kara Owens at 989-774-1318 with questions or issues with submission. 

Student funding

Undergraduate funding

Student Performance, Exhibition, Competition, or Presentation (PECP) Grant

Student Endeavors Grant

Undergraduate Summer Program for Arts & Research (SPAR) Grant

Graduate funding

Graduate Assistant (GA) Conference Grant

Student Performance, Exhibition, Competition, or Presentation (PECP) Grant

Student Endeavors Grant

Graduate Publication Grant

Graduate Summer Program for Arts & Research Grant

Student Creative and Research Endeavors Exhibition (SCREE)

SCREE is a celebration to honor students and provide them with the opportunity to share their research, scholarly, and creative endeavors with a professional audience and the university community at large.

Graduate student awards

Outstanding Graduate Project Award

The Outstanding Graduate Project Award was established to recognize scholarly activity by graduate students and the contribution made by their faculty supervisors.

External awards

The following graduate student awards are available through the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools. If you are interested in nominating a graduate student for one of these awards, please contact Kara Owens at 989-774-1318.

Distinguished Master's Thesis Award

Excellence in Teaching Award

Undergraduate student awards

President and Provost Undergraduate Student Awards

These awards are intended to recognize outstanding undergraduate students for their work outside the classroom. Accomplishments may include: 1) research such as research results presented at national meetings or published in the peer-reviewed literature; 2) creative work such as juried art exhibitions or music competitions; or 3) demonstrated excellence in leadership or entrepreneurship such as business, education, or other experiential learning opportunities and competitions.

Award recipients

President's Award
Lucy Forlastro - College of Business Administration
Jonathan Gregory - College of Science & Engineering
Faitmah Khan - College of Health Professions
Calvin Older - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Provost's Award
Isabella Andreski - College of Science & Engineering
Sara Schwind - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Amina Torres - College of Science & Engineering
Jade Walleman - College of Business Administration
Cody Wilson - College of the Arts & Media

President's Award
Alison Doolittle - College of Health Professions
Lindsay Fleck - College of the Arts & Media
Ishani Gaidhane - College of Science & Engineering
Michyah Jones - College of Education & Human Services
Angeline Petras-Gourlay - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Provost's Award
Ava Brewer - College of the Arts & Media

President's Award
Madeline Devantier - College of the Arts & Media
Skylar Duke - College of Education & Human Services
Grant Folkert - Neuroscience
Dakota Keblbeck - College of Science & Engineering
Eric Urbaniak - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Provost's Award
Johnathon Evers Smith - Neuroscience
Abbie Pinter - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Daniel Swanson - College of Science & Engineering

President's Award
Molly Damitio - College of the Arts & Media
Emily Lauzon - Neuroscience
Shashwat Maharjan - College of Science & Engineering

Kennedy Scott - College of Health Professions
Anna Wetzel - College of Education & Human Services
Meagan Williams - College of Business Administration
Edwin Williamson - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Provost's Award
Rosemary Guzman - College of the Arts & Media
Joseph Monetta - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Chloe Pestrue - College of Science & Engineering

President's Award
Yasmeen Duncan - College of the Arts & Media
Abigail Shepard - College of the Arts& Media and College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Katie Pulaski - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences

Provost's Award
Kiara Cushway - College of Science & Engineering
Paige Dombrowski - College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Julia Kalusniak - College of Health Professions & College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
Nick Malendowski - College of Health Professions
Elizabeth Scupholm and Lillian Tibbott - College of Business Administration
Julia Willsie - College of Science & Engineering

President's Award
Andrea Miller - College of Education & Human Services
Hanna Shoemaker - College of the Arts and Media
Lindsey Sharrard - College of Business Administration

Provost's Award
Yvon Bergner - College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Lauren Blake - College of the Arts and Media
Dana Gepford - College of Science & Engineering
Sydney Harless - College of Business Administration
Mallory Marshall, Samantha Mentus, Jacob Danek & Mary Catherine Mclaughlin - College of Health Professions
Joshua Muench - College of Health Professions
Anna Reynolds - College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
Savannah Swaitlowski - College of Science and Engineering