Initial Publication Date: September 26, 2025

Cohort 5 Funding Request

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Participants in AK UNiTE's Cohort 5 can apply for funding to support travel for mentoring-related professional development and/or support for designing and implementing a CURE or research vignette at their institution.

Rolling Application Deadlines:

October 13, 2025
December 1, 2025
February 2, 2026
April 6, 2026

As part of participating in this program you agree to complete reflections on your work via online forms sent by the project evaluator.

Contact InformationFirst Name:
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Last Name:
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Email Address:
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Career Level:

Which part(s) of AK UNiTE did you previously participate in?
Incubator: 2020-22
Cohort 1: 2022-23
Cohort 2: 2023-24
Cohort 3: 2024-25
Cohort 4: Summer 2025

Institution/Organization:

Institution Type (check all that apply)
government agency (local)
government agency (state)
government agency (federal)
non-profit organization
tribal entity
academic (public)
academic (private)
for-profit organization

Voucher Application Type:

Please see the Guidelines below for more information * required

*Option 1: Mentoring Professional Development - attend a conference, webinar, workshop, etc. related to mentoring
Option 2: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience - develop and/or implement a full CURE in the classroom
*Option 3: Research Vignette - Convert research into a classroom or lab experience, something smaller than a full CURE

* Options marked with an asterisk are good options for undergraduate students in research projects.

Proposal Information

Please provide a short title for your request that is descriptive of what you're trying to accomplish.
(For example: "Travel to X for a Mentoring Workshop" or "Book Y for CURE participants" or "Materials to run Z activity with my students")
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Please provide a detailed description of the activity or material resource you are requesting funding for. * required

If the funding is to participate in an event, please provide the date(s) of the event.

How does this funding support your engagement as a mentor or mentee? * required

Please provide the total amount being requested.
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Proposal Guidelines

Option 1: Mentoring Professional Development - attend a conference, webinar, workshop, etc. related to mentoring:

Identify the specific professional development opportunity, its relevance and importance to mentees,
Description of the specific activities that you will perform (such as presenting a poster, giving a talk, exploring future research collaborations),
A statement of anticipated impact on development of your inclusive mentorship practices.

Option 2: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience - develop and/or implement a full CURE in the classroom:

An outline/timeline of your CURE project, with the supplies and/or equipment that you will need
A description of your class research goals and specific resources you will use,
A plan on how you will assess student learning and incorporate mentoring into the plan.

Option 3: Research Vignette - Convert research into a classroom or lab experience, something smaller than a full CURE:

How would your mini-CURE support student learning in research?
What course(s) do you think this mini-CURE would be well suited for?
What knowledge and skills would students learn? What supplies and or equipment are necessary?
If you were a near-peer mentor in this lab experience, how would you support (mentor) others in the classroom?

Documentation

In order to process your funding request, AK UNiTE will need to have documentation of your costs. Please provide a budget for the planned use of funds as well as documents or screenshots that demonstrate the event or material being purchased. Our preference is to have all this information in a single PDF, but if you need to upload more than one file, you can do so. If you need to submit more than 3 files, please contact uaa_akunite@alaska.edu.

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Title: A descriptive, human readable title.

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Select the file: Make sure it has an appropriate suffix (e.g. .doc) or specify the type in the Optional Fields below

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File Type:

The system will attempt to determine the correct file type based on the name of the file you've selected. Choosing the correct file type here will override that.

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Who is the original creator/copyright holder of the information in this file?

Provenance/Acknowledgements

A short description of where the material came from. Include names and institutions of authors and contributors as well as acknowledgment of any work from which this was derived.

Reuse License

If none of the above licenses apply describe the conditions under which this material appears on this site as well as any information about reuse beyond this site.

More Information about reuse and choosing a license

Without permission you should not upload the file. There are several options in this case:

You can contact the original author to get permission.
You can provide a link to (or a description of how to get) the original material rather than uploading it here.
You can find a substitute that isn't encumbered by copyright.
You can create a substitute yourself. Remember, ideas can't be copyrighted, only particular expressions of those ideas. Of course you'll want to give credit the original author.

The Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center has more good information about copyright as it applies to academic settings.

Agreement:

As a cohort member of AK UNiTE,

I understand that due to the federal situation regarding the National Science Foundation canceling funding, the money for this award may be terminated at any time.
I understand that when sharing work from this project, I am required to acknowledge the original authors, AK UNiTE, and NSF as funding sources in any publications or other presentations.
With the exception of Voucher Option 7, I understand my application materials may be shared with other cohort members to build the network.
If awarded funding, I agree to submit deliverables that will be shared publicly on the AK UNiTE website.
I will support AK UNiTE's mentoring project by completing any surveys administered by this project in a timely manner.
Finally, I understand that most participant support funding will be reimbursed according to the University of Alaska Anchorage guidelines.

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