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Undergraduate research facilitates intellectual agency, invites students to practice critical thinking and problem-solving skills, and prepares them for the leadership responsibilities of professional careers and graduate and professional school training.

Since its founding in the 1960s, the J. N. Andrews Honors Program at Andrews University has fostered enthusiastically the challenges and discoveries of undergraduate research. By means of the Honors Thesis, the Honors Program requires its students to engage in substantive primary investigations in which students take an active role in posing research questions, designing and refining methodologies, collecting data and results, and critically analyzing the significance of their conclusions.

The Undergraduate Research Scholar Award was established in 2002 to facilitate more opportunities for students to engage in research and creative scholarship in greater depth than required by their individual programs of study. The Award enables students to work closely with faculty mentors, participate in disciplinary conferences, and develop important professional skills.

The Honors Program gladly joins hands with the Office of Research and Creative Scholarship in sponsoring the annual Honors Scholars and Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium, which recognizes the achievement of Honors Thesis scholars as well as other undergraduate students engaged in substantial research projects. A team of highly engaged faculty research mentors makes possible a rigorous program of undergraduate research.

The J. N. Andrews Honors Program and Office of Research and Creative Scholarship thank heartily the Andrews University faculty members and Honors Council members who give willingly of their time and energy to support and evaluate undergraduate research. The Honors Council Members include: Sonia Badenas, Karl Bailey, James Hayward, Ante Jeroncic, Katherine Koudele, John Markovic, Beverly Matiko, Lionel Matthews, L. Monique Pittman, David Randall, Tiffany Summerscales, Trina Thompson, Bruce Wrenn, Robert Zdor, Givan Hinds, Nelson Starkey. We also thank our administrative assistants, Maria Sanchez-Martinez and Sarah Burton, as well as our student assistants, Alaryss Bosco and Matthew Chacko, for their hard work in helping to make this event a success.

Many thanks for working together!

L. Monique Pittman
Director of the J.N. Andrews Honors Program
Associate Professor of English

Gary Burdick
Associate Dean for Research
Professor of Physics