Grantee Responsibilities and Expectation

The Bruce and Brandon Lee Scholarship may be awarded to a student proposing to complete a project focused on human values or ethics in clinical settings. Though any clinically relevant project will be considered, preference is given to cancer-related research. The grantee is entitled to four fourth-year elective credits and an award up to $5,000 (depending on fiscal climate).

Proposals should be submitted electronically to humanities@uams.edu by April 14 of the M3 year. If the Scholarship committee identifies a worthy project, a grantee will be named before the beginning of the fourth year.

Responsibilities and Expectations

• The grantee is expected to begin preliminary work on his/her project by June 1 of the M3 year. Preliminary work includes
  • Identifying a project mentor. The grantee will check-in or meet with his/her mentor regularly throughout the M4 year.

• Identifying persons with requisite expertise to help the grantee complete the proposed project.
• A review of the extant literature related to the grantee’s project.
  • An annotated bibliography should be sent to the grantee’s mentor before October of the M4 year.
  • If the project includes empirical research, the grantee (with the help of his/her mentor) must
    • Identify or develop the empirical methods/tools to be used
    • Determine what regulatory processes must be completed (e.g., IRBapproval).
• During the Fall of the M4 year, the grantee is expected to
  • if the project has an empirical research component,
    • complete any regulatory processes.
    • begin data collection.
  • if the project does not have an empirical component,
    • continue to research and read relevant literature.
    • develop an outline for the written project.
• Starting in January of the M4 year, the grantee must
  • meet monthly (or more) with his/her mentor.
  • if the project has an empirical research component,
    • complete data collection.
    • begin analysis of data.
  • if the project does not have an empirical component,
    • begin writing early drafts of the written project.
• In March of the M4 year, the grantee must
  • If the project has an empirical research component,
    • write an empirical research paper of his/her findings.
    • Paper must include background, methods, results, and discussion.
  • If the project does not have an empirical component,
    • complete a final version of the written project.

The Project Is Due To Be Complete And Signed Off By The Grantee’s Mentor No Later Than April 30 of the M4 Year.

Failure to complete the project as proposed to the Scholarship Committee will result in one of three actions, to be determined by the grantee’s mentor in consultation with the scholarship committee:

1. No loss of credit or
2. Loss some portion of the academic credit to be reported to the Dean’s office, or
3. Loss of all the academic credit to be reported to the Dean’s office