West Virginia University is proud to host the 18th Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, open to undergraduate researchers across West Virginia University and the region who are participating in research programs during summer 2025. Undergraduates can present their research, scholarly, and creative efforts in one of two poster sessions in a variety of disciplinary categories. All presentations will be reviewed and judged by faculty and graduate students.
Symposium will be held in person on Thursday, July 24, 2025 from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the WVU Mountainlair.
Cinthia Pacheco, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, joins Leo Peele, a computer science major from Rockville, Maryland, and Dena Lin, an exercise physiology major from Queens, New York, to highlight the abundance of University research opportunities. The Office of Undergraduate Research is located in Eiesland Hall.
On Thursday, April 24, the Office of Undergraduate Research hosted our ninth annual spring undergraduate research symposium in the Mountainlair on the WVU Downtown Campus. A huge congratulations to our category winners and runners-up below, and an enormous thanks to all our presenters, mentors, judges, and attendees who made this symposium such a success! Winners and runner-ups
Five West Virginia University faculty members and
one graduate student were recently named recipients of the Travis Stimeling
Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research.
Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate
Research and the Office of
the Provost, the award serves to recognize and reward faculty and graduate students
who encourage and support undergraduates in making an original intellectual or
creative contribution to their discipline.
Efforts from the West Virginia UniversityOffice of Undergraduate Research
to connect undergraduate students with research opportunities and
faculty mentors are being recognized nationally by the Council on
Undergraduate Research with its Award for Undergraduate Research
Accomplishments.
Announced on March 11, the award
recognizes institutions with exemplary programs that provide high
quality and collaborative research experiences for undergraduates.
Sixty-five West Virginia University students representing the Morgantown and Beckley
campuses will participate in Undergraduate Research Day at the
Capitol from 8 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, March 25, in Charleston.
Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol provides students the opportunity to present
their original scholarly works during a poster session and to talk with legislators
about their findings. More than 115 student researchers from eight institutions will
present in the areas of creative arts, education, health sciences, humanities,
STEM and social and behavioral sciences.
On Saturday, December 7, the Office of Undergraduate Research hosted our Seventh
Annual Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Mountainlair on the WVU Downtown
Campus. A huge congratulations to our category winners and runners-up below, and
an enormous thanks to all our presenters, mentors, judges, and attendees who made
this symposium such a success!
WVU Student Editors Publish MURR, Vol 9, Fall 2024 Academic Year
A compilation of undergraduate research being conducted at WVU is now available in Volume 9 of Mountaineer Undergraduate Research Review. In this edition of WVU's student-led undergraduate research journal, you'll find the following papers:
