Student Life. Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center Records

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      <abstract id="aspace_73b2a44bf34616255b6503c1525268e3">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.</abstract>
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      <p>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.</p>
      <p>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.</p>
      <p>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.</p>
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"The URECA Center," <title render="italic"><part>Wake Forest University</part></title>. <ref actuate="onrequest" href="https://ureca.wfu.edu/about-us" show="new">Available online</ref>.</p>
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      <p>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 <ref actuate="onrequest" href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/96876" show="new">here</ref>. Items may require a WFU log-in to access.</p>
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      <p>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.</p>
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      <p>The nature of the WFU Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The Archives and Special Collections of ZSR Library claims only physical ownership of most materials. The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to the U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.</p>
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      <p>Digitized materials from this record group are available in the <ref actuate="onrequest" href="https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/96876" show="new">Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Center (URECA) digital collection</ref>, ZSR Library Special Collections and Archives.</p>
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