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Welcome to the 2024 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium ARCHIVE!

Loyola University Chicago’s Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium will be on April 20, 2024, and this resource is the ARCHIVE of student presentations including fall 2023 Engaged Learning class projects, summer 2023/fall 2023/spring 2024 research projects from LUROP fellows, learning portfolios, community engagement projects, and spring 2024 Engaged Learning class projects. During the week of April 15 - 20, 2024, Loyola celebrates student scholarship and community engagement with a variety of events in the Celebration of Student Achievement, Scholarship, and Creative Works. For 15 years, the Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium has been an anchor event as Loyola’s annual celebration of student scholarship and research, including research from a variety of disciplines, community engagement projects, and scholarly, creative works conducted by Loyola University Chicago undergraduate students. On behalf of the Loyola Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (LUROP) within the Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship (CELTS), we are excited to feature the archived work of Loyola University Chicago students as they share their learning from courses and co-curricular experiences, whether through completed projects or ongoing research "in the works."

As a celebration of students' scholarly work, this symposium archive provides space for reflection upon, as well as critical interrogation into, many topics from multiple disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Such scholarship actively animates Loyola’s mission to “expand knowledge in service to humanity through learning, justice, and faith.” Through student research projects, community-based learning projects in service-learning courses or academic internship courses, and reflective learning portfolios, students demonstrate their knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in formation as a result of the Loyola University Chicago Jesuit education through these archived presentations from 2023-2024.

During each summer and academic year, Loyola undergraduate students spend hours inside and outside of their classrooms, mentored by faculty and staff, to conduct hands-on, original research and to lead community-engaged projects. These scholarly projects not only engage learning differently but also transform student perspectives, as knowledge is generated or co-created and communities are strengthened. The breadth of multi-disciplinary projects are presented today in various multi-media formats from videos of narrated presentations to learning portfolios and research posters, as well as other creative presentation media. We encourage you to take advantage of the wide array of student presentations in the varied submissions presented in this archive of the 2023 Undergraduate Research & Engagement Symposium.

We hope you enjoy the culminating projects and featured scholarship of our Loyola students! For more information about Loyola’s Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship, a center that facilitates high-impact, engaged learning opportunities for students across the curriculum, visit us at www.luc.edu/celts. To learn more about the undergraduate research program (LUROP), please visit www.luc.edu/lurop. May the virtual symposium provide you with new insights, big ideas, and rich perspectives in learning!

In service,

Patrick M. Green, EdD
Executive Director, Center for Engaged Learning, Teaching, & Scholarship (CELTS)
Director, Engaged Learning University Requirement
Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Education

Browse the contents of Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium:

2020 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
2021 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
Beauty in Biology
2022 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium
2023 Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium Archive
Biology Through Art 2023
2024 URES Archive