The summer 2015 ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program (SFF) is the seventeenth funded by the Freeman Foundation to support collaborative undergraduate research in East and Southeast Asia. Over $278,000 will be allocated to twelve faculty mentors and thirty-seven students in four teams led by a single mentor and four teams led by two mentors. They will conduct research in Japan, the People’s Republic of China (six teams), and Vietnam. If one counts the 2015 recipients, the SFF program has awarded a total of 201 grants to 939 fellows from 105 different AN member colleges and universities.

ASIANetwork is grateful to the Freeman Foundation for its extraordinary commitment to fostering undergraduate research and providing the opportunity for college students to have a mentored, in-depth experience in Asia. We also express our appreciation to the faculty mentors, supported by their campus administrators, who lead their students to Asia each summer for these transformative experiences.

Those who have worked with this program from its inception have evidenced the growing strength of Asian Studies programs among participant colleges. Proposals are becoming more sophisticated, the credentials of students and faculty are stronger, and the range and depth of research is impressive. We wish to thank all applicants this year and in the past for their interest and support for the SFF program.