Application Requirements

To complete your application for the program, you must submit the following:

• The online application
• An unofficial transcript (usually a download or screenshot from your college or university)
• Resume or curriculum vitae
• Two letters of recommendation from a faculty member, an advisor or a supervisor who knows you well and can outline your strengths
• Proposal
• Two-page personal statement that includes responses to the following questions:
  1. Why are you interested in participating in this program (1-4 paragraphs)?
  2. What specific research area you are interested in and why?
  3. What relevant work or class experiences have prepared you for this program? Have you had previous research experiences? If so, please describe them.
  4. What are your career objectives?
  5. Are there any relevant details about your background that you wish to provide?

After submitting the online application, you must email your supplementary documents to Dr. Anne Osano at aosano@bowiestate.edu  and copied to research@bowiestate.edu

Proposal

Phase one

Interested students apply by submitting a three-page proposal broken down into multiple sections including project theme (identifying at least one US and Kenyan mentor from the list of PIs as posted on the website), background/rationale, methods and experimental design, expected outcomes, management applicability and anticipated venues for dissemination. All US proposals must have a letter of support from an advisor indicating the student’s ability to support travel to an appropriate international conference so the student can present their findings after the ASI. Once all proposals have been received, they will be reviewed by PI, Osano, the program organization committee and project PIs according to the proposed PI on each proposal. The reviews will be completed within one month after the close of the RFP.

Phase two

Kenyan students Recruitment will consist of posting the accepted proposals to the IRES website and inviting students from Kenyan Universities to apply to the program by submitting complementary proposals to one of the 10 accepted proposals from our US-based students. The Kenyan professors that are collaborators will also help with advertisement of the program. While priority will be given to students from the Kenyan institutions that are collaborators on this proposal; we will, invite students from across Kenya to participate. In their proposals, the Kenyan students will be asked to summarize their current project, to describe their career goals, and to explain how their collaboration with their US counterparts and the project’s US and Kenyan PIs will be beneficial to their current thesis or dissertation project and long term research goals. The students will work with each other as well as with their mentors to determine how to divide the workload of their proposed project and which student will be responsible for which specific aspect.