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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">It is that time of the year again when the Thompson call goes out to faculty. In keeping with tradition, I'll give faculty approximately ten days for full proposals, and set the deadline
to next Wed (3/27), by end of day. More details below about the Thompson follow. In brief, you may have ongoing projects and conversations with students; and this is indeed what the proposals are intended to accomplish. However, please refrain from naming
intended students in the proposals itself. These proposals will subsequently be shared with our graduate student body. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Due Date: March 27<sup>th</sup> </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Attention Faculty, Great Opportunity for Summer Research Support: </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Faculty wishing to become Thompson Research Scholarship Mentors can apply now for this summer’s program. Selected faculty will receive at least one graduate assistant to work in collaboration
with to further summer research goals. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Interested f</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">aculty only need to provide the graduate committee with a short proposal
indicating research interest and a plan for the research assistant (see more details below under Faculty). I encourage you to read the full description of the program (below). The program will be advertised to graduate students shortly after faculty have submitted
proposals. If you have any questions, please contact me: <a href="http://navdan@ku.edu/" target="_blank" id="OWAbedbc083-4ef3-d870-4a94-0839f58d182d" class="OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">navdan@ku.edu</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><b>Faculty Guidelines </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">1. Proposals for program will be evaluated by the graduate committee. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">2. Proposals should be no more than one page and should include: </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">a. <i>
Topic:</i> what will you be researching? </span></p>
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Need:</i> what tasks do you need graduate student assistance to complete? </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">c. <i>
Presentation:</i> what are the political science conference(s) where you intend to present the supported research? </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">3. <b>
Please do not name specific students in your proposals.</b> The process for the Thompson fellowship has two parts: faculty propose prospective projects and graduate students apply to participate in those projects. Graduate students will be encouraged to select
projects when they apply to the Thompson fund based on their subfields and research interests. These applications will be evaluated based on need and interest. Priority will be given to graduate students that have not received Thompson funding before. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">4. If more faculty proposals are submitted than the number we can accommodate, faculty that have yet to receive scholars will be given priority. In addition, if the number of faculty
proposals outnumber student applications, then proposals that can be matched with student applications will be the only proposals supported. Please also see my email for further criteria that the graduate committee will use to determine which proposals receive
funding. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">5. <b>
Scholarships can be used for student travel as well.</b> If you have travel plans to another country and would like support from a graduate student, please apply for a Thompson. The 3K can be used for graduate student travel, in-country expenses, etc. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">6. Finally, if your work requires knowledge of a new methodological skill or refinement of an existing approach, Thompson scholarships can be used for student educational conferences
-- examples include The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Summer Program in Quantitative Methods in Ann Arbor Michigan or The Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (QRM) in Syracuse New York. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">I look forward to seeing your proposals. Feel free to share them with me and/or with Jess, cced here on the email. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Best,<br>
Naz</span></p>
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