Students
Pack Research Experience Program
The Pack Research Experience Program (PREP) is a research award that directly benefits historically underrepresented and first-generation students with an academic standing of freshman or sophomore. Get paid to work on a research project or creative activity under the guidance of a faculty mentor!
Benefits of participating:
- Get paid while learning about research.
- Apply what you learn in the classroom to real issues.
- Develop skills and knowledge that can help you be a better student.
- Build a supportive community around you that includes faculty, staff and fellow students.
- Contribute to a team of researchers that are developing new knowledge.
- Build experience to apply for other undergraduate research opportunities, the McNair Scholars Program or even graduate school.
Mentors and projects for spring 2024
Applications for these projects are due on November 20, 2023. Visit the PREP student information page for details.
Christopher Barile
Dynamic Windows based on reversible metal electrodeposition
Laura Blume
The violence against public figures project
Shannon Burleson
Investigating barriers and facilitators to the Indigenous population's access to secondary education
Gina Delgado
What is student success? Investigating and understanding undergraduate student success through self-efficacy and sense of belonging
Bob Ives
Academic Integrity in Higher Education
Brad Johnson
Local government policy and the construction of public organizations
Dan Jones
Do we hide who we really are during interviews? Self-presentation and personality
James Leonhardt
Psycholinguistics in marketing: Shaping consumer behavior
Lesley Morris
Historical Ecology in Rangelands (HEIR Lab)
Jenny Ouyang
Effects of artificial light at night on organismal function
Elnaz Esmaeilzadeh Seylabi
Developing machine learning models for analyzing engineering systems