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• Discovery Award: This $2000 award recognizes one undergraduate student each year who has exemplified overall academic excellence, including exceptional achievement in research or creative activities.
  
  
• Undergraduate Research Grants: Undergraduate Research Grants fund a significant undergraduate research or creative project under the guidance of a faculty mentor.
  
  
• Alaska Heart Institute Fellowship: This award funds significant undergraduate biomedical research projects under the guidance of a faculty mentor. 
  
  
• Parasca Science Research Award: This award supports a significant undergraduate research project in any area of science or social science.
  
  
• Dr. Alex Hills Engineering Research Award: This competitive award supports one undergraduate engineering research project showing exceptional merit.  Research must be under the guidance of a faculty member.
  
  
•  Policy Research Internship Award: This award is presented to exemplary students in the social sciences and other applicable fields interested in the analysis of public policy issues.  Selected students are asked to contribute research and analysis skills to a forthcoming publication published by the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER).
  
• Research Internship in Ecology and Physiological Ecology Award:  This award is presented annually to an exemplary undergraduate student in the natural sciences interested in gaining research experience in the fields of ecology and/or physiology.  The successful candidate will participate in a 10-week summer research program coordinated by UAA's REU Program in Biological Sciences. 
  
• Undergraduate Research in the Community Award: This award supports projects that actively involve and meet the needs of community partners. 
  
  
• Discovery Grants: The Discovery Grants contribute support to ongoing undergraduate research and creative projects.
  
  
• UAA Consortium Library Prize: This prize lauds an exemplary undergraduate research project from any discipline which demonstrates evidence of significant scholarly investigation and utilization of library resources, archival as well as electronic.
  
  
• Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA): SCUSA is an annual conference devoted to international relations, economics, political science, and related social science fields that is held each fall at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. UAA can nominate two students to attend this annual conference. Full funding is available for two participants, who are selected in a competitive application process.