Benefits of UExplore

• Graduate school preparedness
• Professional and life experience
• Contact with faculty
• Develop writing skills
• Experience the excitement of discovery and innovation
• Explore a topic of personal interest
• Summer stipend and housing

Student or Faculty Generated Grants that include

• Money for equipment and supplies
• 10 weeks of housing and stipends for summer grant awardees
• Honorarium upon presentation of project or publication of results for Faculty Advisor
• Travel funds to conferences to present research
• Information on opportunities for externally funded off-campus internships

Examples of Research Proposals

• Biology: Determination of phytogenic relationship between Unionicola foili and Unionicola Formosa: Does DNA sequence analysis support a two-species model?
• Business: Perceptions of trustworthiness and legitimacy of e-commerce ventures
• Chemistry: Isolation and Identification of a Pneumocystis carinii protein with affinity for 8-Aminoquinolines
• Engineering: Innovative designs for an assistive technology device to perform wheelchair simulations for patients
• English: F. Scott Fitzgerald and the evolution of the American dream
• Finance: Issues surrounding Direct Purchase Plans - DPPs
• Foreign Languages: Refusal strategies: Comparison of three Spanish dialects and American English
• Interpersonal Communication: Attraction factors involved in Internet relationships
• Music: Analytical study of the compositional techniques used in Richard Faith's opera Beauty and the Beast
• Physical Therapy: The effects of exercise on land and in the water to reduce low back pain during pregnancy
• Physics: Modeling of Plasma Fluctuations in the Earth's Ionosphere
• Political Science: From critique to consensus: In pursuit of Post-Modern Politics
• Psychology: Influence of judge's instructions and vior dire questionnaires on juror memory
• Religion: Investigation of the literary structure of Luke-Acts.