Keystone Project Resources

All Kilachand students, regardless of Keystone Pathway, are required to submit a one-page Project Statement and are invited to submit a budget proposal via the Keystone Project Information Form. See our Requirements page for more information.

Project Statement Guidelines

The Project Statement (max 600 words) is the primary means by which your project is reviewed by the Kilachand Keystone Committee. Excellent Project Statements and Budgets will be approved by the committee, whereas materials that need work will be sent back for revision, preventing you from moving forward on your Keystone work.

Successful Project Statements typically have these features:

• Topic: What is your Keystone about?
• Methods: What methods will your project use?
• Stakes: Why is your project important? What impact do you hope to make?
• Product: What will you produce at the culmination of your Keystone Project in addition to your Symposium presentation or poster? A scholarly paper? An object/design? A piece of literature, artwork, film, or performance?

Students enrolled in KHC HC451 are asked to prepare a Keystone Project Proposal that articulates their research question, methods, and anticipated deliverable. Below are examples of successful Keystone Project Proposals.

A book for children in preschool classrooms about children with sensory processing disorders or autism spectrum disorders.

A narrative proposing program improvements and changes that could be implemented by Behavioral Health at Boston University.

A period sitcom set in 1860s England that uses comedy and satire to bring to light the inequality of coverture laws and addresses the inherent sexism of the period.

BU researchers are responsible for the ethical conduct of research with human subjects. An institutional review board (IRB) is the committee that reviews, monitors, and approves human subject research. The purpose of the IRB is to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects and to assure clinical research is conducted according to federal regulations, state law, and IRB policies.

Do you need IRB Approval?
Submitting to the IRB
Contact the IRB

If you will be working with human subjects, your Keystone Project Advisor should be familiar with the IRB and should be able to guide you through the IRB process. Please make sure to note your Kilachand affiliation in your communications with IRB. The IRB team holds periodic workshops tailored to KHC students.