Stamps Impact Prize

Help our students grow

The Stamps Impact Prize is a competitive award to enhance undergraduate academic experiences by supporting student-initiated research scholarship, creative works, community outreach projects, technology development, or other innovative experiential learning projects. Faculty mentorship is an essential component of these experiences and students will work closely with their mentor during the development and execution of their student projects.

The Stamps Impact Prize program is open to students enrolled on the Oxford and Regional campuses.

The most competitive applications are ones in which 1) the research scholarship, creative works, etc. are clearly student-generated ideas, 2) the student makes a substantial independent contribution to the project and 3) the activities result in, or contribute to, a significant finished product for the student—for instance, authorship on a publishable manuscript, creation of an artistic or scholarly work, exhibition, technical (white) paper, etc. The Stamps Impact Prize does not support ongoing faculty-initiated research or creative achievement projects.

Stamps Impact Prize recipients typically conduct their projects across academic semesters and/or summer terms.

The maximum award amount is $5,000. Allowable expenses include direct project/experience supplies, any travel-related costs (outside of the study abroad or Study USA programs), student stipends (if the project does not coincide with a period of for-credit enrollment, i.e., typically summer), etc. Project support during the summer after graduation is not eligible. A $2,000 before tax stipend is paid to the faculty mentor at the completion of the student project.

Stamps Impact Prize proposals will be evaluated by a review panel convened by the Office of the Provost and selected on the quality of the written proposal, the extent that the project is student-initiated, the clarity of the plan/achievability of results, the student’s expected independent contribution, the enrichment potential/impact on student’s academic and/or professional career, and the strength of the faculty/mentor’s endorsement. Approximately 13-15 Stamps Impact Prizes will be awarded in each of two application cycles (Fall and Spring).

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