MARQUETTE, MI-- Northern Michigan University is celebrating the academic achievements of students and faculty this week.
Thursday the school is hosting its first-ever presentation for PRIME—or Progressive Research and Innovative Mutual Exploration—in conjunction with the annual Celebration of Student Scholarship.
Erica Goff is the Director of the Grants and Contracts Office at NMU. She says PRIME is an internal funding mechanism that offers time and resources for faculty to engage in scholarly activity, and also helps them prepare for seeking external funding.
“It’s sort of, you know, getting your toes wet in the process, and it’s a little less intimidating than going after millions of dollars from the National Science Foundation, for example,” she says.
PRIME projects must include faculty from different disciplines.
Two teams of professors and students will discuss their projects Thursday beginning at 5 p.m. in the Jamrich Hall auditorium.
About 100 students are also displaying posters explaining their work from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Jamrich. An awards ceremony will be held at noon.
