What’s New? Spring 2025
Spring 2025 UGRC Workshop Series
Local Undergraduate Research Presentation Opportunities
Call for Committee Members: UGRC Faculty Mentor Awards
Spring 2025 UGRC Workshop Series
Please see the schedule for this spring’s workshop series, which offers sessions for students at various stages in the research process, from beginner to advanced. Workshops are set to begin Thursday, February 13.
We are also still in need of some faculty presenters and student researchers. Please complete this form if you would like to support UGRC in this way.
Local Undergraduate Research Presentation Opportunities
KU Composition Conference Writing your Way Home
Conference Date: Monday, April 14, 2025
Proposal Deadline: March 14, 2025; access proposal form here
KU Inspires, A Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creativity
is an on-campus (held in Rohrbach Library) low stakes conference where undergraduate and graduate students can share their ideas in a friendly environment. It runs from 9:00 am to around 4:00 pm with a poster and artwork gallery all day in the library and individual panels on the hour throughout the day. Formats include: paper presentations, posters, artwork, original creative writing, comics/zines, performances, and short films.
Conference Date: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Proposal Deadline: Saturday, March 15, 2025; access proposal form here
The annual Berks County Undergraduate Research & Creativity Conference allows students to share their research and creativity with each other and the community. The conference is open to any undergraduate student seeking an opportunity to share their expertise with other scholars.
Conference Date: Saturday, April 26, 2025
Proposal Deadline: Friday, April 4, 2025 by 4pm; access proposal form here
Mentor Directory
Purpose: As a way to make finding faculty research mentors easier for potential student researchers, UGRC is working on a searchable Faculty Research Mentor Database. This initiative is part of the Title III grant, the main aim of which is to expose as many KU students as possible to transformational learning through High Impact Practices (HIPs). Please see all the information in one place here.
The Ask: Please update your faculty profile in myku Legacy. Instructions are here: https://www.kutztown.edu/about-ku/administrative-offices/web-and-digital-media/directory-resources.html
UGRC Faculty Mentor Awards
The awards recognize excellence in faculty engagement with undergraduate researchers and are sponsored by Kutztown University's Undergraduate Research and Creativity Faculty Advisory Board and the Office of Grants and Sponsored Projects. Each award carries $500 in professional development funds.
The twofold purpose of the awards is to raise awareness of all the outstanding undergraduate research that is taking place on campus and beyond, whether in local forests or streams, or much farther away, and to reward, recognize and celebrate these impressive achievements. Each year there can be up to four faculty recipients.
You may self-nominate or nominate a colleague. Please see the application form here.
Ceremony Date and Time: Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 11am (as part of the KU Inspires celebration); recipients will be notified at the beginning of April.
Application Deadline: March 1, 2025.
UGRC Faculty Awards Committee
If you would like to serve UGRC by being on the faculty awards committee, which reviews applications and determines the recipients, please complete the form linked here.