What is the Drinko Center for Undergraduate Research?
The Drinko Center is an on-campus resource dedicated to promoting and providing students with a variety of research, scholarly, and creative opportunities in all academic disciplines. Conducting research is one of the best ways to gain hands-on, "real-world" knowledge of your field while you are here at Westminster.
What qualifies as "Undergraduate Research"?
Research looks a little different in each discipline so it's important that you work closely with a faculty member in your chosen field who can guide and mentor you during the process.
The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) defines undergraduate research as "inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline." If you are an undergraduate and you have conducted an experiment, written a research paper, created a piece of art - you've engaged in "Undergraduate Research"!
Here at Westminster, we value collaboration and relationship building - the "WE" in Westminster. To that end, the Drinko Center defines Undergraduate Research as "scholarly projects in which both faculty and students are collaborative partners in examining, creating, and sharing new knowledge or works in ways consistent with practices in the discipline."
How can the Drinko Center help?
The Drinko Center currently supports Undergraduate Research at Westminster College by:
