Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship

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What grabs your attention? What are you curious about? What problems do you want to solve in the world? Undergraduate research and creative scholarship offer opportunities to collaborate with faculty and peers as you make discoveries.

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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

Connect with a faculty mentor

Find a faculty mentor in your academic discipline or sign up for one of the many research and creative activities at UMKC, including paid research and creative scholarship positions available to students who have a federal work-study award.

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Apply for funding

Read about the grants available to undergraduate students in either the academic year or Summer session.

Learn more about student grants

Present your research

Showcase your scholarly, creative and research work by presenting posters, putting on a performance, reading your paper or other type of presentation.

Find opportunities to present your research

Pursue honorary designation

UMKC recognizes the important work accomplished by the undergraduate researchers, scholars and artists with the honorary transcription designation, Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Learn how to apply