Spring 2025 Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP)
The Office of Student Research (OSR) is pleased to invite student-faculty teams to apply for the Spring 2025 Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP).
This program is open to all first-, second- and third-year full-time undergraduate students in all majors. URAP is a semester-long research experience where faculty introduce students to the research process and research topics in their discipline and supervise an independent student research and creative inquiry project. This program provides students with an opportunity to engage in preliminary research and creative inquiry projects, which may then form the basis for a continuing research or inquiry-based activity. Students will also be introduced to the process of designing and conducting independent research and inquiry projects through concurrent enrollment in a one-credit RSCH 200-Introduction to Research and Inquiry course. At the end of the program, students will summarize and share their research and inquiry projects through presentation at the 2025 Spring Student Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry, submission to Incite, or submission of a proposal for the Longwood Senior Thesis program. OSR has designated several spots for student projects focused on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) research topics.
This introductory experience is particularly valuable for students who may want to pursue more advanced research and inquiry projects during a summer or in-semester research experience in the future. Faculty will have the opportunity to mentor an undergraduate student one-on-one.
Students will register for 1-credit of research in their discipline AND RSCH 200- Introduction to Research and Inquiry (a 1-credit class). Students will be responsible for signing up for the 1-credit of research in their discipline, the 1-credit RSCH 200 class, and for meeting Longwood University requirements for academic credit. URAP students may not participate in another funded research and inquiry program simultaneously, such as Perspectives on Research in Science and Mathematics (PRISM) or Longwood Senior Thesis.
Faculty mentors will receive a $500 stipend.
Applications will be evaluated based on the criteria in the Spring 2025 URAP Application Rubric. The application deadline is Monday, October 14th by 5:00 p.m.
Spring 2025 URAP Call for Applications
Spring 2025 URAP Application Rubric
Eligibility
Faculty. URAP is open to tenured and tenure-track faculty members, clinical educators, and lecturers from all disciplines, programs, and colleges. Faculty-student teams are limited to one faculty member and one student. Faculty may mentor more than one student in a semester if the students are working on different projects.
Students. URAP is open to all first-, second-, and third-year full-time undergraduate students in good academic standing who will return to the University for the next academic year. Students graduating in the current academic year are ineligible.
This program is intended to be an introductory experience for students who may want to pursue more advanced research and inquiry projects in the future. The purpose of this program is to encourage new faculty/student pairs. While each faculty/student pair can only participate in the program once, we hope that faculty/student pairs will continue to work on research endeavors even after the conclusion of the program.
How to Apply
Students should electronically complete and submit a PDF (no larger than 2 MB) of the completed application to Dr. Shayla Walker, Director of the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (walkerse4@longwood.edu), by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 14th.
Questions? Please contact Dr. Shayla Walker, Director of the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, sewalker4@longwood.edu.