The Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center was established in 2008 and functions as an umbrella organization that promotes undergraduate research and facilitates collaboration between faculty and students. Each year the Center hosts an Undergraduate Student Research Day, during which students present their findings through poster sessions, oral presentations, and panel discussions. Audiences include peers, faculty, staff, and family members.
The URECA Center is governed by an executive committee, consisting of administration and senior faculty members who represent a range of disciplines, departments, and programs. The Center receives administrative support from the Office of the Dean.
The Center facilitates student and faculty participation in a range of programs and initiatives that support mentored, undergraduate scholarship. These programs have included: the Paul K. and Evalyn Richter Memorial Fund, the Wake Forest Research Fellows Program, the Atlantic Coast Conference Inter-institutional Academic Collaborative, and the C. V. Starr Foundation. The Center supports student participation in domestic and international conferences and symposia with funding opportunities and travel grants. The center also sponsors professional and career development workshops.
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This collection documents the operation of WFU's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center. The collection includes the center's early planning documents, initial proposals and budgets, executive committee meeting minutes and materials, research day programs, honors booklets, and a student feedback report from 2013. Executive committee materials often reflect specific programs and funding initiatives, including Richter Memorial Fund, Wake Forest Fellows Program, and ACC Academic Consortium. Materials in the collection are arranged in chronological order. Some materials in the collection have been digitized and are available here. Items may require a WFU log-in to access.
Student Life. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center Records (RG40.30), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
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Digitized materials from this record group are available in the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center (URECA) digital collection, ZSR Library Special Collections and Archives.