The Summer Student Research Program is a UNK activity that gives undergraduate students opportunities to conduct original research, scholarship, and creative activity in their disciplines. It is open to projects from all academic areas.
Students spend about 10 weeks in the summer designing and conducting their projects, and writing papers reporting on their results.
The key characteristics of the program are:
The multi-disciplinary theme provides an opportunity for student-scholars to recall their general studies education and reinforce the integrated nature of knowledge and learning. In some cases this comes through weekly discussion groups, and in others students have been known to cross disciplinary lines and help each other on projects.
Upon completion of the project, students disseminate their results in three ways. Students:
Faculty and Students who are interested in participating should either attend one of the information sessions (Oct 13 and 14, Nebraskan Cedar Room, 2pm) or contact
Dianne Holcomb or John Falconer at 865-8496.