2023-2024 ICB Undergraduate Research Program starts recruitment
ICB Undergraduate Research Program (URP) has been running for 17 years. A total of 832 students graduated from ICB URP and many of them have been successfully enrolled by postgraduate schools around the globe with the strong support of their experience with and publications from URP.
After the URP Research Projects have been approved by the URP Management Team of ICB, the ICB Application Guide for School Year 2023-2024 has been finalized for students as follows:
No. | Title of Project |
1 | Analysis on the market response to the investment value of ETFs tracking indices of Central-SOEs shareholder return，technology lead and modern energy |
2 | Research on the value and stock market price of Chinese listed company |
3 | Research on Low-carbon Agricultural Policies at Home and Abroad and their reference values |
4 | Exploring the opportunities and threats of Agri-product e-commerce in China--models and case studies |
5 | Finance in rural China |
6 | ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) performance and corporate value |
7 | Research on model monitoring in the international corn industry under the background of Russia-Ukraine conflict |
I Candidate qualifications
Year Two and Year Three students of UCD and OSU Programs (exclusive of those who have completed URP before), and UK Program Year Two Students can apply for URP membership of their own accords.
Language requirements: minimum TOEFL 71 or IELTS 6.0 or Duolingo 95
Candidates who meet the above requirements will be selected against the multiple topic choice and ranking of GPA until all positions are filled.
II Policies and Disciplines
a. URP grades will be recorded on the ICB CAU transcript under the course title of “Practice for Research Methods” (4 credits) at the end of 2024 spring semester. The grades break into three parts:
l midyear presentation (end of 2023 fall semester) and final presentation (end of 2024 spring semester) (30%);
l attendance to supervising (about 5 times each semester) (40%);
l supervisor’s evaluation (30%)
b. URP member students can withdraw from this program with the consent of the supervisor and the ICB URP Management Team by the end of week 17 of 2023 fall semester, beyond which the withdrawal cannot be accepted and unsatisfactory performance will be marked 0 credits.
c. Attendance will be taken for each supervising session. Those who are absent for two sessions without approval by the supervisor (for the supervising sessions) will be expelled from URP team and new member will be admitted to fill the position.
d. Required outcome from each group ONLY includes the reporting PPT at the end of two semesters. At the end of the school year, URP member students are RECOMMENDED, but NOT REQUIRED, to publish their research paper either in group or individually, on the ICB URP Proceedings (E-Version).
III Application procedure
Please log on http://10.2.151.135/jsxsd/ find “学籍成绩”-“学籍管理”-“URP信息填写”, then complete the form and submit the application information by 1pm Sep. 21 (Thu).Please send email to icb7@cau.edu.cn if any question during the application process. Late applicants or those with missing documents will not be short-listed.
After the qualification verification, the selection results will be publicized on ICB website by Sep. 22 (Fri), together with the URP schedule for 2023 fall semester. All students accepted are required to attend the Kick-off Meeting at 12:30 pm, Sep. 25(Mon) at the Reporting Hall of ICB office building.
ICB URP Management Team
Sep.15, 2023