Message sent on behalf of Dr. Harriett Romo, Director of the UTSA Mexico Center:

The Mexico Center is pleased to announce the 2014-2015 competition for the UTSA Mexico Center Educational Research Fellowship.

This fellowship provides financial assistance for student/faculty research projects on Mexico-related topics that need time in Mexico to do field work or consultation at a university or research center. The student grants, funded by the Carlos and Malú Alvarez International Study Fund, are worth $3,000. They pay for student travel to Mexico, food, lodging, local travel, and supplies/materials needed to complete the project (i.e. data sets for quantitative analysis, transcribers/recorders for fieldwork, etc.) To encourage teams of faculty and student researchers, the Mexico Center will supplement the student grant with up to $1,000 for faculty members working with students on the projects (one faculty member per project). The funds from the Mexico Center for the faculty member supervising the project will pay for faculty travel to Mexico, food, lodging, and supplies/materials needed to complete the project. The grant cannot support faculty research alone. Funding is contingent upon travel approval by the UTSA International Oversight Committee (IOC) (Travel to borders states in Mexico is highly restricted).

Eligibility:

• Current UTSA faculty members and currently enrolled students in any department or discipline.
• Graduate and undergraduate students.
• Previous recipients of the Mexico Center fellowship are eligible to apply.

The UTSA Mexico Center requests copies of the finished work by the spring semester of 2016, a financial report of expenses, and a presentation of the research project at a UTSA Mexico Center Brown Bag lecture.

Proposals are due byMonday, December 1, 2014. Please send the completed application form (in word or pdf format) as an attachment (via-email) to: Olivia.Lopez@utsa.edu. An e-mail confirmation will be returned upon receipt of the proposal. Proposals will be reviewed by the UTSA Mexico Center Advisory Board.

Awards will be announced in January 2015.

The application form can be downloaded from: http://utsa.edu/mexicocenter/fellowship.html

I would appreciate if you could share this announcement with prospective candidates in your colleges and academic departments. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you have any questions.

Thank you,

Harriett Romo

Director, UTSA Mexico Center

University of Texas at San Antonio

Mexico Center

501 West César E. Chávez Blvd MNTB 2.260

San Antonio, TX 78207

mexico.center@utsa.edu

210.458.2849