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LVJ Visiting Academic Scholarship Application

  • The Lyle V. Jones (LVJ) Visiting Academic Scholarship provides financial support to help offset costs associated with established scholars (at least five years post-Ph.D.) serving as an invited visitor to the L.L. Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The 2020 submission due dates are March 1st (for consideration for the fall semester of 2020) and August 1st (for consideration for the spring semester of 2021). To learn more about the award, including expectations, visit us here.
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  • Please briefly summarize your research interests and describe how you would benefit from visiting the Thurstone Lab and how you might contribute to our existing intellectual community. Please be specific about the activities you plan to engage in during your stay in the Lab (i.e., what and with whom) and how they would benefit both yourself and the Lab. See the LVJ visitor page for more details and examples of activities scholars might engage in to enhance the intellectual community of the Lab.
  • Please briefly indicate the award amount (per month of visit) that would make it possible for you to visit the Thurstone Lab (maximum of $2,000/month pending available funds) and the anticipated travel and living expenses that this award would help to offset (e.g., I plan to fly back to my home institution once per month and request $350/mo to help offset airfare costs, I plan to rent an apartment from January to April and request $1000/mo to help offset rent, etc.).
  • Accepted file types: pdf, Max. file size: 98 MB.
    Please upload a copy of your curriculum vitae as a PDF.