Students at UNC Greensboro don’t have to wait until graduate school to form close bonds with researchers. The professors frequently take undergraduates under their wing, letting them experience all the practical work of compiling data in the lab and even publishing in academic journals.
Lee Phillips, director of the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creativity Office (URSCO), says students get to be part of the development of knowledge across their preferred professional field.
“Research or scholarship takes place in every discipline. Training students in the approaches to understanding new areas, creating new knowledge, creating new expressions of knowledge and understanding through the arts, is valuable.”