?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> ?xml-model href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SAA-SDT/EAD3/master/ead3.rng" type="application/xml" schematypens="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/1.0"?>    RG40.30    Student Life. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center Records   Processed by Emily Houlditch    Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives  PO Box 7777  Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109   http://zsr.wfu.edu/special/   2023 October  RG40.30      Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives    English    L/languagedeclaration>  dacs  Describing Archives: A Content Standard    completed      2023-12-04T15:56:25-05:00   ArchivesSpace v3.0.1  This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on Monday December 4, 2023 at 15:56         Student Life. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center Records   RG40.30       Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives         English       1.3   Linear Feet     1 record carton       2006   2023       WFU's Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center promotes undergraduate research, facilitates faculty and student collaboration, and hosts an annual presentation of undergraduate scholarly activities. This collection contains documents related to its operation, including committee meeting minutes, program evaluations, executive reports, budgets, promotional materials, participant lists, and conference programs with abstracts.      Historical Note
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.
Sources "The URECA Center,"
    .  Available online .     Collection Overview
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.
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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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     Planning materials and program    2006  2010    2006 July-2010 July  1  1      Proposal and budget materials    2007  2009    1  2      Research Symposium program   2008 September 26   1  3      Executive committee minutes and materials    2010  2011    2010 August-2011 March  1  4      Executive committee minutes and materials     2011  2012    2011 March-2012 November  1  5      Student feedback reports   2013   1  6      Executive committee minutes and materials     2013  2014    2013 January-2014 March  1  7      Research Day program   2013 October 4   1  8      Executive committee minutes and materials     2014  2016    2014 August-2016 April  1  9      Research Day program   2016 October 7   1  10      Research Day program   2017 October 27   1  11      Research Day program   2018 September 28   1  12      Research Day program   2019 November 1   1  13       Class of 2020 Departmental Honors booklet with project descriptions , born-digital   2020 May 18        Class of 2021 Departmental Honors booklet with project descriptions , born-digital   2021 May 16        Research Day program , born-digital   2021 October 9        Research Day program , born-digital   2022 October 7        Research Day program , born-digital   2023 September 22