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Efforts from the West Virginia University Office 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:

December 7, 2024
Abstract submissions NOW OPEN!
Closing November 14th
ALL FIELDS WELCOME!

March 25, 2025, 9:00-11:00 am
Submissions NOW OPEN!
Closing November 22, 2024
ALL FIELDS WELCOME!

April 7-9, 2025
Abstract submissions NOW OPEN!
Closing December 6, 2024

For more information contact us at undergradresearch@mail.wvu.edu

Congratulations to the category winners and runners-up from West Virginia University's 8^th Spring Undergraduate Research Symposium held on Saturday, April 20, 2024. Thank you to all of our presenters for sharing your research and scholarship from this past spring semester!

Applications are now open for mentors/RAs for the 2022 Governor’s STEM Institute at WVU to occur over the summer. Application deadline is May 10th, 2022. 

Mentors/RAs are responsible for supervising the middle school-age students at GSI. During the day, mentors will be paired with a faculty member to assist with classroom and research projects and after class time will be required to supervise daily and evening activities. Mentors act as chaperones on field trips and as resident assistants in the evenings.