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is the largest undergraduate research conference in the country, and each year brings together thousands of undergraduate students from across the globe to present their research through posters, oral presentations, visual arts and performances.  The conference offers a unique environment for the celebration and promotion of undergraduate student achievement; provides models of exemplary research, scholarship and creative activity; and offers student career readiness development.  Unlike meetings of academic professional organizations, the gathering of student-scholars welcomes presenters from all institutions of higher learning across all disciplines.

The Hope student researchers who attended represent together each of the college亚洲色吧檚 four academic divisions: arts, humanities, natural and applied sciences, and social sciences.  Their participation reflects a decades-long tradition for which Hope has repeatedly received national recognition.

Hundreds of Hope students engage in research with faculty mentors part-time during the school year and full-time for several weeks each summer.  They regularly present their research at regional and national conferences and publish their research as co-authors with their faculty mentors.

The Hope students participating in NCUR, and their academic disciplines, research projects and (in parentheses) faculty mentors, are:

• Rachel M. Amicucci: French, 亚洲色吧淟e Chlord茅cone亚洲色吧� (Dr. Brigitte Hamon-Porter, professor of French);
• Shaynah Anderson: education, 亚洲色吧淓xploring Teacher Educators亚洲色吧� Practices and Challenges in Preparing Preservice Teachers for Emergent Bilingual Students亚洲色吧� (Dr. Mihyun Han, assistant professor of education);
• Steven Awad: biology, 亚洲色吧淭he More the Better? The Influence of Greater Genomic Material in the Stress Response of Related Organisms亚洲色吧� (Dr. Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, assistant professor of biology);
• Elizabeth I. Burchart: nursing, 亚洲色吧淓xploring Demographic Factors and Mental Health Personal Stigma Among Undergraduate Nursing Students亚洲色吧� (Dr. Anita Esquerra-Zwiers, associate professor of nursing);
• Grace Critchfield: education, 亚洲色吧淎n Exploration of Beliefs and Boundaries in the Classroom亚洲色吧� (Dr. Yooyeun Hwang, professor of education);
• Kate E. DeMann: neuroscience, 亚洲色吧淟oss and recovery of olfactory function following acute hypoxic exposure亚洲色吧� (Dr. Erika Calvo-Ochoa, assistant professor of biology and neuroscience);
• Margaret L. Hartman: education, 亚洲色吧淭he Taxonomy of Evidence-Based Practices for United States History Education亚洲色吧� (Dr. Jane Finn, the Susan M. and Glenn G. Cherup Professor of Education);
• Jacob Humbert: education, 亚洲色吧淎n Exploration of Beliefs and Boundaries in the Classroom亚洲色吧� (Dr. Yooyeun Hwang, professor of education);
• Sion Kang: education, 亚洲色吧淭he Transformative Impact of Translanguaging Pedagogy in Bilingual Read-Aloud Activities亚洲色吧� (Dr. Mihyun Han, assistant professor of education);
• Madeline Kenney: biology, 亚洲色吧淭he More the Better? The Influence of Greater Genomic Material in the Stress Response of Related Organisms亚洲色吧� (Dr. Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, assistant professor of biology);
• Sebastian Lema: sociology and social work, 亚洲色吧淏eyond Ethnicity: Experiences of Racism and Perceptions of Belonging Among Latina/o/x Students at an HWCU亚洲色吧� (Dr. Rodrigo Serrao, assistant professor of sociology);
• Jacqueline Rivera: dance, 亚洲色吧淭ap, Music, and Dance History: Shifting Tap Pedagogy by honoring Oral Traditions亚洲色吧� (Heather Cornell, assistant professor of dance instruction);
• Nereyda Sanchez Gama: neuroscience and biology, 亚洲色吧淥lfactory system alterations in a model of dopaminergic bulbar loss by 6-OHDA in zebrafish亚洲色吧� (Dr. Erika Calvo-Ochoa, assistant professor of biology and neuroscience).

The students were accompanied by Hope faculty members Dr. Mihyun Han, assistant professor of education, and Dr. Rodrigo Serrao, assistant professor of sociology.

Hope has received national recognition in a variety of ways through the years for its success in teaching through collaborative faculty-student research, and for the high quality of the research itself.  As one current example, the most recent Best Colleges guide published by U.S. News & World Report, published this past fall, ranks Hope 31st nationwide among all of the country亚洲色吧檚 4,000 degree-granting postsecondary institutions for student research experiences.  In February, the 亚洲色吧�2025 Research Activity Designations亚洲色吧� report released by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching included Hope among the top 30 undergraduate-only institutions in the nation for extensive research activity.

Among other acclaim historically, in 1994 Project Kaleidoscope named the program in the natural applied sciences a 亚洲色吧淲hole Program That Works亚洲色吧� 亚洲色吧� a model for other institutions to emulate, and in 1998 Hope was one of only 10 liberal arts institutions in the nation to be recognized for innovation and excellence in science instruction by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with an 亚洲色吧淎ward for the Integration of Research and Education亚洲色吧� (AIRE).   Based on the college亚洲色吧檚 proven history of excellence, CUR chose Hope to present the national webinar 亚洲色吧淭ransformational Learning through Undergraduate Research and Creative Performance亚洲色吧� in April 2011. In 2017, Hope was one of only three colleges or universities nationwide to receive a Campus-Wide Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments (AURA) from CUR, and one of only nine to have received the recognition since the award was established in 2015.