Connecting students to hands on learning
MURACE, or Mentored Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors, is a program which helps undergraduate students at Georgia College & State University with their research through funding and mentoring.
From tracking timber rattlesnake movements to land and wildfire management, our research opportunities connect you with the real world.
Get Started
A good place to begin with your MURACE experience is to come to a Student Research Circle meeting! Here you can chat with other students monthly in a casual setting led by students experienced in research.
Fund your Research
Undergraduates researching through MURACE can apply to receive up to $500 to go towards travel costs in order to attend conferences around the country.
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View MoreWhat is Undergraduate Research?
The Council of Undergraduate Research, or CUR, defines undergraduate research as, "An inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original, intellectual, or creative contribution to the discipline(s)." MURACE adopts and adheres to the Council on Undergraduate Research by being committed to inclusivity and diversity in all of our activities, therefore MURACE will increase and nurture participation of individuals and groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in undergraduate research.
What does successful research look like?
Successful undergraduate research involves:
- Mentorship: collaborative; serious interactions; clear goals; focus on the student; focus on the student learning process; intellectual engagement of the student and disciplinary socialization.
- Originality: meaningful contribution by the student; it should be entirely or partially novel; it is OK to reveal more questions than answers.
- Acceptability: employs techniques and methodologies that are both appropriate and recognized in the discipline; includes a reflective/ synthetic component that is appropriate to the discipline.
- Dissemination: ideally there needs to be a final, tangible product for which both the process and results are peer-reviewed, critiques, juries, judged, etc.; but we recognize that undergraduate research is a continuum between student (process centered) and outcome (product-centered) activities and we value and recognize all student-initiated participation in inquire in and outside of the classroom.