The Undergraduate Research Program is open to all interested undergraduates. University of Delaware faculty believe that exceptionally capable and highly motivated undergraduates should be given a chance, while they are still beginners, to participate in what is happening on the frontiers of knowledge today by serving as research assistants or junior members of research teams. Working closely with faculty, students learn to formulate significant questions, develop investigative procedures, gather and examine evidence, follow hunches, detect loopholes, evaluate results, and share their work with the larger community of scientists, scholars and artists. Most undergraduates receive academic credit for research activities. Students who hold college work-study grants may earn their grant money doing research.
Special scholarships are available for full-time research in the summer and winter sessions.
Undergraduate researchers are usually sophomores, juniors or seniors. Some are exploring research for the first time while others are already making original contributions to their chosen field of study. For more information, visit the Undergraduate Research Program web site.