Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Award
Academic Year 2024/2025 Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Awards
The application for the Spring/Summer-Fall 2025 award cycle has closed. Awards will be announced in April.
For information about program eligibility, see here.
The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) is please to annouce that 50 undergraduate students have been awarded funding to support their research projects for the Winter-Spring/Summer 2025 award cycle. These students will engage in research with the support of a faculty mentor and will have opportunities to present their research throughout the upcoming year. Congratulations to the awardees!
Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects Awards
What are Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects? Research is how the academic community communicates with the world. Taking multiple forms, research includes inquiry-driven scholarly and creative activities that can lead to new knowledge, improve our ability to solve problems, result in new theory, or in the creation of new art or an artistic performance.
Research occurs across the academic disciplines. Historians scrutinize archives, anthropologists conduct studies through fieldwork and ethnographic research, biologists work in laboratories, artists paint in studios, and filmmakers shoot, view, and assemble footage into films. No matter your course of study, researchers are working to expand the frontiers of knowledge and discover something new. Research is at the heart of great universities, and the knowledge research creates is part of the service to society that universities provide. Research can result in extraordinary outcomes: a new, more effective medical treatment, new knowledge about our past, a musical composition, or a better understanding of some natural phenomenon.
Undergraduate Research is a unique opportunity for students to work with faculty. Some students will work on part of a faculty member's current research project. Other students may develop an independent project of their own that is guided by a faculty member. Either way, students have opportunities in a variety of disciplines to engage in original hands-on research and creative projects.
What are the benefits of doing Undergraduate Research and Creative Projects?
- Provides an opportunity to go "backstage" to see where and how knowledge is produced.
- Learn more about your intended major/minor or explore a field you never thought of before.
- Connect with other undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and researchers who share similar academic and career interests.
- Apply what you learn in the classroom to actual research through experiential "learning by doing."
- Develop skillsets applicable to an array of careers, from critical thinking and problem solving to collaboration and effective communication.
How do I find a Faculty Mentor?
- Talk to faculty with whom you have taken a class.
- Attend lectures on campus to familiarize yourself with other faculty members outside your courses.
- Consider your interests and identify all relevant Wayne State University departments and read their faculty biographies. Don't limit yourself to the department of your major.
- Search faculty and posted projects on ForagerOne.
Questions:
E-mail urop@wayne.edu