Independent Scholarship

TRAVEL GRANT

Travel Grants are intended to provide support for students going to meetings where they are presenting their work.  Applications will only be considered if the student is an author on, for example, a poster or paper/talk to be presented at a meeting.  The grant support can be used to cover the costs of travel to and from a conference, registration for the conference, and accommodation.  It is expected that the student will identify support for some portion of the costs from another source (e.g., the mentor, department, or OUR). Please note that food expenses cannot be covered.  Additional cost requests will be considered as detailed in the budget on the application.

Applications MUST be submitted and approved before the trip so that a Travel Authorization can be completed by the SCHC before the trip. State law forbids retroactive Travel Authorizations. Applications for Travel Grants are available at http://schc.sc.edu/Academics/Forms.html

SENIOR THESIS GRANT

The Honors College has a small fund available to support extraordinary expenses associated with a student’s senior thesis/project.  The SCHC will provide a maximum grant of $1,500.00 for students to purchase needed materials for their senior thesis/project.  Such items can include, but are not limited to chemicals, rats, equipment, the rental of exhibit space, and travel expense.  Items purchased through a senior thesis/project grant becomes property of the Honors College, and we request that a student purchase items covered by the senior thesis/project grant through the Honors College.

The Honors College cannot pay for items already purchased, nor for the typing or copying of a thesis or project paper, for photo duplication, or for purchasing books, periodicals, meals or routine supplies (e.g., computer or printer ribbons, computer or typing paper, notebooks, etc.).

To apply for a senior thesis/project grant a student will need to submit an application form, which can be downloaded from the SCHC website, and an itemized budget proposal with a written proposal explaining the thesis or project the you intends to pursue.  When writing the itemized budget, it is to the applicant’s advantage to give a brief explanation of why he or she needs the items in the budget.  It is also helpful to include an itemized account of what has already spent for the thesis or project.

The Honors College will not accept any late application; the application deadline can be found on the college calendar.  Students will be notified by mail if they receive a grant and instructed on how to go about receiving reimbursement.  If a student has any additional questions, he or she may contact the Director of Student Services in the SCHC office.  

1. Students who do group theses/projects should carefully consider the group membership. If SCHC students do group theses/projects with non-Honors students and submit applications for the Senior Thesis/Project Research Grants, only the Honors students' portions of the theses/projects will be funded if the application is approved.

2. For students who have received funding through the SCHC Senior Thesis/Project Research Grant during a previous semester, an explanation of why additional funding is needed will be required in order for subsequent requests to be considered. Regardless of how often a student requests funding, no student may receive more than the maximum amount that the Honors College awards to its students for the SCHC Senior Thesis/Project Research Grant.   

3. Students using animals in their thesis/projects must get approval from IACUC or be listed on an approved IACUA, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee protocol.

4. Students using human subjects or giving out surveys must get approval from the University Institutional Review Board, IRB, or be listed on an approved protocol.

5. Any work supported by the Senior Thesis/Project grant subsequently presented or published should cite the support as: "This work was supported in part by a South Carolina Honors College Senior Thesis/Project Grant (include initials of students)."

Applications for Senior Thesis Grants are available at http://schc.sc.edu/Academics/Forms.html