IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1654 
Expressing support for designation of the week of October 24, 2010, as 
‘‘Undergraduate Research Week’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 
Mr. HOLT submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and Labor 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for designation of the week of October 
24, 2010, as ‘‘Undergraduate Research Week’’. 
Whereas close to 600 colleges and universities in the United 
States and thousands of undergraduate students and fac-
ulty pursue undergraduate research every year, providing 
research opportunities that will shape the trajectory of 
students’ lives and careers and researchers’ and institu-
tions’ purpose and contributions to academia and the re-
search enterprise; 
Whereas students and faculty engaged in undergraduate re-
search contribute to research across many disciplines, in-
cluding arts and humanities, biology, chemistry, health 
sciences, geosciences, mathematics, computer science, 
physics and astronomy, psychology, and social sciences; 
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Whereas research at the undergraduate level provides both 
students and faculty members opportunities for improv-
ing and assessing the research environment at their insti-
tution, develops critical thinking, creativity, problem solv-
ing, and intellectual independence, and promotes an inno-
vation-oriented culture; 
Whereas undergraduate research is essential to pushing the 
Nation’s innovation agenda forward by increasing the in-
terest and persistence among young people in the crucial 
science, 
technology, 
engineering, 
and 
mathematics 
(STEM) disciplines, and to cultivating the interest of 
would-be researchers who pursue a new aspiration of 
graduate education after participating in undergraduate 
research; 
Whereas the combining of two national organizations that ad-
vocate for important investments and support for under-
graduate research and undergraduate researchers, the 
Council on Undergraduate Research and the National 
Conferences on Undergraduate Research, have come to-
gether to support the endeavor warrants recognition; and 
Whereas the week of October 24, 2010, would be an appro-
priate week to designate as ‘‘Undergraduate Research 
Week’’: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) supports the designation of ‘‘Undergraduate 
Research Week’’; 
(2) recognizes the importance of undergraduate 
research and of providing research opportunities for 
the Nation’s talented youth to cultivate innovative, 
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creative, and enterprising young researchers, in col-
laboration with dedicated faculty; 
(3) encourages institutions of higher education, 
Federal agencies, businesses, philanthropic entities, 
and others to support undergraduate research and 
undergraduate researchers and their faculty men-
tors; 
(4) encourages opportunities, including through 
existing programs, for females and underrepresented 
minorities to participate in undergraduate research; 
and 
(5) supports the role undergraduate research 
can and does play in crucial research that serves the 
Nation’s best economic and security interests. 
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