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Latest News
- Now planning: RU Student Research & Inquiry Symposium, April 7-11, 2025!
August 5, 2024Announcing: Plans are underway for the 2025 RU Student Research & Inquiry Symposium, April 7-11, 2025! All colleges, departments, programs and offices are welcome to offer activities. Visit the RSRIS 2025 program page to learn more and submit an interest form. Welcome to all! 
RU Student Research & Creative Scholarship Symposium
April 9, 2021The RU Student Research & Creative Scholarship Symposium April 19-23, 2021 is live! Join us for live virtual sessions and browse student poster, oral & performance studies presentations!
Discussion Series 2: Cross-Cultural Research
February 26, 2021The OSR's Amy Chen will be presenting on cross-cultural research as part of her discussion series on Thursday, March 4th at 3:00 PM CST. This presentation will go over four papers that examine the difficulties of research between cultures and the implications for future research in this area. This second installment of the discussion series…
February Newsletter
February 12, 2021Hello everyone! The OSR's newsletter is here for the month of February! Please click below to browse through it. Make sure to read about some of the summer research fellowships with upcoming deadlines in March, upcoming discussion series presentations, and our podcasts! We also appreciate any feedback or questions, so do not hesitate to reach…
Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium (CAURS)
February 8, 2021The OSR wants to make all undergraduate students aware of the upcoming deadline to submit oral or poster presentations for The Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium (CAURS). This is one of the largest annual undergraduate research conferences in the country, which brings together undergraduate students in the Chicagoland area from all academic disciplines to present…
OSR Drop-In Sessions
February 1, 2021The OSR will be providing daily drop-in sessions starting Monday, February 8th! These drop-in sessions will consist of an OSR staff member being available for two hours each day to answer any questions you may have regarding research, fellowship applications, and/or proposal development. Sessions will take place Monday-Friday and the schedule is as follows: Monday:…
Workshop: Reaching out to Professors
February 1, 2021Thinking about research? Need to reach out to a professor? From figuring out your research interests to maintaining a professional relationship with a professor, come join us at our virtual workshop about how to reach out to professors! This workshop will be presented by Elysia Soria on Tuesday, February 2nd at 12:00 PM CT. Please…- January Newsletter
January 25, 2021Hello everyone! We hope you are all having a great start to the Spring 2021 semester! The OSR's newsletter is here for the month of January! Please click below to browse through it. Make sure to read about some of the summer research fellowships with upcoming deadlines, a list of dates for upcoming OSR events,…