Undergraduate Research Program
Kandice L. Salomone, Director
329 Hall of Languages, 315-443-7192
ilearn.syr.edu
The Undergraduate Research Program (URP), housed in the College of Arts and Sciences but open to qualified participants from other colleges, exists to provide nonclassroom, credit-bearing educational opportunities to undergraduate students. Interested qualified students work closely with faculty members in faculty-generated research projects, or other projects representing the faculty member’s professional and academic interests. The program features the apprenticeship model, and students gain firsthand experience in creative and investigative academic processes, participate in alternate learning environments, translate theory into practice, explore the cutting edges of particular disciplines, develop closer working relationships with faculty members, and enhance their own career and educational credentials.
FACULTY PARTICIPATION
The program offers faculty members a chance to extend and expand the character of their teaching in the undergraduate context, to work closely with self-selecting, highly motivated students, to attract excellent students to continued study in their particular field of study, and to open both internal and external funding possibilities by way of undergraduate involvement in their work. Faculty projects open to this involvement are invited and listed on a semester-by-semester basis, although individual projects may extend beyond a semester in length or be repeated or relisted as need be. The character and requirements of these projects, as well as the number of credits involved, vary greatly, since they come from across the disciplines of the College of Arts and Sciences, and sometimes from other colleges as well. The common criterion for all, however, is appropriateness to an educational credit-bearing experience for qualified undergraduate students.