Research and Scholarship Defined
UGRASP at Southern Utah University defines undergraduate research and scholarship as those inquiry based activities/projects which satisfy the following criteria:
- The activity has clear pedagogical benefits to the student(s)
- The student(s) create/discover new compositions, knowledge, and/or applications
- The results of the activity/project have the potential to make a professional contribution to the field
- The results of the activity/project are formally disseminated to others in the field by the student(s)
To satisfy the last criteria, students may disseminate the results of their project/activity via any the following:
- Class presentation
- Department symposium
- SUU’s annual student-faculty scholarship day
- Local conference/meeting/expo
- Regional conference/meeting/expo
- National conference/meeting/expo
- International conference/meeting/expo
- Campus publication
- Off-campus publication (not peer-reviewed)
- Off-campus publication (peer-reviewed)
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