Participating in undergraduate research and creative scholarship not only helps you develop critical-thinking, artistic, experimental design and presentation skills, it can open a world of possibilities. You can take classes with a research focus, apply for research grants, share your research at campus symposia and earn recognition for your work.

What Is Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship?

  • Faculty and undergraduate researchers, artists and scholars are engaged in mentoring relationships, rather than traditional teacher-student relationships
  • Undergraduates use research, artistic and scholarly methods that are widely accepted in their fields of study
  • Undergraduate researchers, artists and scholars make contributions, however modest, to knowledge
  • Undergraduates disseminate the results of their research and creative activity beyond the classroom
  • Understanding and applying research methods and ethics while creating new knowledge

Plan Your Undergraduate Research Experience

Lunar Dust Research Is Out of This World

When humans return to the moon, UMKC research will help them avoid problematic interactions with lunar dust while mining that same dust for valuable resources.

UMKC Student Takes the Driver’s Seat With Her Involvement On Campus

Mya Thomas’s passion for interdisciplinary learning fueled her interest in STEM organizations such as Women in Science (WiSci) and Baja Buggy

This Child Psychologist is Breaking Through Adversity Walls

Erin Hambrick is changing the way we understand childhood trauma

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