Undergraduates Advise National Nonprofit as Part of Honors Capstone Course
Students at Bentley University serve as consultants for a cancer care startup--Cancer Help Desk
Undergraduate Research Stories
An Interdisciplinary Team of Researchers Confronts Hunger on Campus
This VIU third-year course is entirely student-led, with research projects designed and carried out by the students over the academic year.
Meet the ‘Nanostars’ of Pasadena City College’s Synthetic Biology Research Program
This group of undergraduate researchers and their professor are working in DNA nanotechnology and using the tools of biology to build materials of the future.
Undergraduate Combines Science and Music in His Research Journey
The University of Missouri’s dynamic undergraduate research program helps student find harmony between his passions for music and research.
Combining Field, Lab, and Paper Work to Save an Endangered Flower
A small flower with yellow and cream petals is on the edge of extinction in Canada and a VIU research team is fighting to save it.
Communicating Technical Research in an Understandable Way Isn’t Always Easy
Ava Beaudin, a Virginia Commonwealth University junior and aspiring doctor, sees her recent summer internship in cancer research as a lesson in communication.
Undergraduate Researcher Asks How May Swenson’s Unpublished Art Reframes Her Poetry
Utah State University undergraduate researcher explores an overlooked part of poet May Swenson’s legacy.
Hooked on Salmon: One VIU Student Follows His Passion For Fish Into Local Waters
Tristen says the fieldwork helped him develop competence as a leader managing a team as well as skills in data computation, all applicable to working in the sector after graduation.
Study into UREs Shows the Impact of Undergraduate Research
Over the past 13 years, 1,300 students at Arizona State University have participated in various UREs. Faculty in the school are studying how these social science UREs compare with UREs that have been historically offered in STEM fields. The researchers studied how three different UREs compare. They examined course-based undergraduate experiences (CUREs), individual research experiences (IREs) and lab-based undergraduate research experiences (LUREs).
How I Found My Research: “This is Where I Truly Belong. I Can’t Imagine Doing Anything Else.”Â
What I most find fulfilling about the research process is just how much information we still don’t know yet. Throughout human history, we have gained so much general knowledge but there is so much we have yet to explore ... Knowing that my research could help provide insight into what our future may look like is very fulfilling.