Funding Sources

Macalester has several programs that provide funding for student summer research. These include:

Beltmann Endowment: The Beltmann Fund provides support for student-faculty research in the Physical Sciences (Chemistry, Geology, Physics) during the summer by providing stipends for students and faculty. These endowed funds were given to Macalester by Mr. Albert Beltmann, who was a student at Macalester in the post World War I era.

Student-Faculty Summer Research Collaboration (SFSR): The Student-Faculty Summer Research Collaboration enables teams of Macalester faculty and students to engage in significant projects over a ten-week period during the summer. Projects must be related to the faculty member's curricular, pedagogical, scholarly, or creative interests and should be planned and executed by the student and faculty member working together. The projects should be designed to permit completion of a substantial portion of the work during the summer.

Individual Faculty Grants: Individual faculty members are frequently awarded external grants to support their research programs. Faculty members may use some of this funding to support summer students in their research.

The Beltmann and SFSR program require a faculty/student application that is due in late February. Ask the faculty members with whom you hope to work whether they may wish to apply for these funds.

Resumes
Macalester’s Career Development Center has information about developing a resume and sample resumes. Go to

http://www.macalester.edu/cdc/resources/jobs/#resume

and click on Resume Guidelines.

Save your resume as <resumeyourname>. For example, resumeJones.doc. Either pdf or doc format is fine.

Cover Letter
You must include a cover letter that should be thoughtful and communicate your ideas. Write a separate letter to each faculty member with whom you would like to work. Letters should be about a page in length and include:

• Research interests
• Career goals
• Description of why you are interested in this professor’s research projects

The CDC has information about how to write a cover letter. Go to

http://www.macalester.edu/cdc/resources/jobs/ and click on Cover Letter Guidelines.

Save each cover letter as <coverletteryournamefacultyname>. For example coverletterJones.Hoye.doc. Either pdf or doc format is fine.

Transcript

To download your transcript go to 1600 Grand. Access your Academic Tab and click on transcript. Open your transcript and copy it into a Word document. Label the document as <transcriptyourlastname>. For example, transcriptJones. Either pdf or doc format is fine.

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