Welcome to the Student Research Office
The Student Research Office at Purdue University Calumet exists to help students participate in research and scholarly activities, in collaboration with Purdue Calumet faculty. The Student Research Office was developed in the fall semester of 2005 to coordinate the many aspects and programs of student research at PUC. A mission of the Student Research Office is to expand research opportunities for PUC students through internal and external programs.
Research is performed in the many disciplines at PUC, where a student and his or her faculty sponsor work together on a project of mutual interest. The mentoring relationship developed through the research and scholarly process is beneficial to the student and to the faculty member. Students have the opportunity to participate in a research project from beginning to end, to go beyond classroom experience and to investigate an idea in great depth. Faculty enjoy being able to move beyond classroom examples with students who are actively engaged in the discovery process.
There are several programs coordinated by the Student Research Office, including the Undergraduate Research Grant Program (URGP) which funds equipment and supplies for a research project, the Student-Faculty Research Collaboration Award (S-FCA) which funds travel for students when they accompany a faculty member to present their research work results or perform research off-campus, the Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA) which gives awards to the top research projects done by undergraduates at PUC and the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) an NSF sponsored program which supplies a stipend to undergraduate students to do research in the fields of science, technology and mathematics for a spring or summer semester.
Other activities of the Student Research Office are to act as a clearinghouse of information for students to find research opportunities and conferences to present their results outside Purdue Calumet and to host the Purdue Calumet Student Research Day.
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