Celebrating Students in Research: Fall 2023
December 20, 2023
Winter Undergraduate Research Mini-Grants
This fall, UREP awarded 16 Undergraduate Research Mini-Grants to Drexel faculty-student pairs to fund research projects during the Winter Term. Mini-grants of up to $2,000 will pay for necessary equipment, materials, and student pay.
Student and faculty recipients come from across the University, including the College of Arts and Sciences; College of Computing & Informatics; College of Engineering; Dornsife School of Public Health; College of Medicine; Pennoni Honors College (custom-designed major); School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems; and School of Education.
Students funded by mini-grants will present their work at the 2024 Week of Undergraduate Excellence in the Spring Term. In the meantime, read more about their projects here:
Winter Mini-Grant Recipients
STAR Scholars Application is Open
Applications for the STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) Scholars Program are now open! STAR Scholars engage in paid, full-time, faculty-mentored undergraduate research, scholarship, or creative work during the summer after their first year at Drexel. Students in the program receive a stipend, free on-campus housing, and workshops and programming to teach research skills and connect them to opportunities at Drexel. Applications are due on Monday, January 29, 2024 at 12pm noon.
Learn more and apply
Travel Grants & Conferences
During the Fall Term, we funded travel grants for students presenting their research at several conferences:
UREP Ambassador Suhani Dheer, psychology '26, at NAN 2023
- Three students attended the 34th Congress of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA) in New York, NY.
- Two students attended the MICCAI Computational Diffusion MRI Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
- Three students (including two UREP Ambassadors) attended the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN) Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Nursultan Zhanabay, chemical engineering '27, in Texas with Drexel's eclipse launch team
Additionally, Nursultan Zhanabay, a chemical engineering major and 2023 STAR Scholar, received a travel grant to participate in the Annual Eclipse Launch Expedition in Rocksprings, Texas from October 12-16, 2023. This trip built on his STAR research with Dr. Richard Cairncross (CoE) on high-altitude balloon measurements of atmospheric dynamics during eclipse events.
Read more about our students’ conference and travel experiences on our newly relaunched UREP Blog!
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