LOGAN – The Utah State University Undergraduate Research Program was created in 1975.
Since this is the 50th year of the program at USU — and because it is the second oldest such program in the nation after MIT — USU has declared 2025 the Year of Undergraduate Research.
The program strives to help students find, fund, and present research that the students feel passionately about. Undergraduate research enhances student learning through mentoring relationships with faculty and develops understanding of research methodology.
USU’s Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services is currently spotlighting the work of its undergraduate researchers and other campus-wide units will likely do the same throughout the year.
USU’s Office of Research reports in 2020 the school was a winner of the Award for Undergraduate Research Accomplishments which recognized USU as a national leader in undergraduate programs for research and creative activities.