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Professor
437F Wimberly Hall
nbakken@uwlax.edu
608.785.8665
Specialty areas:
Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminal Desistance, Prisoner Reentry, Diversion programs, Drug Treatment Courts, Substance Use and Health, Suicidology
Research Administration Manager
243 Graff Main Hall
brouse@uwlax.edu
608.785.8040
Specialty areas:
Internal faculty/staff grant programs, Student Research, Creativity, & Experiential Learning (SRCEL) initiatives, Undergraduate Research & Creativity (URC) grants, local/national undergraduate research conferences, UWL's Research & Creativity Symposium
Undergraduate Research and Creativity Committee
The Undergraduate Research and Creativity Committee consists of nine faculty members and up to two student representatives. Faculty members serve for up to three years. There shall be no more than four faculty members from any of the College of Business Administration, the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, or the College of Science and Health. Student members shall be selected from students who have received research funding from the committee in previous years. Students who submit research proposals during a given year shall not be members of the committee during that year. The committee elects its chairperson.
Duties and Responsibilities
According to the the faculty senate bylaw II, the duties and responsibilities of the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Committee include:
- Establishing evaluation procedures and criteria for funding undergraduate research and creativity proposals
- Establishing procedures for applying for undergraduate research funds
- Publicizing the availability of undergraduate research funds and the procedures for applying for those funds
- Apportioning institutional funds for undergraduate research
- Advising the consultant of student research and the Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs in the solicitation of grant monies to support undergraduate research
- Planning and conducting an annual Research and Creativity Symposium, as well as other means of disseminating undergraduate research and creativity results
2022-2023 URCC Members:
- Keith Beyer, spring only
- Wen-Chiang Chen
- Michelle Collyar
- Agatha Hultquist, fall only
- Anna Keefe, fall only
- Kristina LaPlant
- Tesia Marshik
- Amy Nicodemus
- William Ross
- Chad Vidden
- Robert Wilkie, spring only
- Alder Yu
- TBA, student representative appointed by Student Senate
- TBA student representative appointed by Student Senate
- Nick Bakken, ex-officio
URCC meeting minutes can be found on the Faculty Senate's URCC page
Upcoming events:
- Mon, Jan 22 - Registration for Research & Creativity Symposium opens
- Tues, Jan 23 - URC grant submission course access opens - request via Qualtrics
- Mon, Feb 5 @ 5:30pm - Grant Writing Workshop, Union 3314
- Tues, Mar 5 @ 4pm - Grant Writing Hunker, Union 3310
- Wed, Mar 6 - Research in the Rotunda
- Mon, Mar 11 - Registration for Research & Creativity Symposium closes
- Tues, Mar 12 - URC grant submission course access closes - request via Qualtrics
- Tues, Mar 19 - URC grant submissions due @ 11:59pm
- Wed, Mar 27 - Poster Making Workshop @ 5:30pm, online link TBD
- Wed, Apr 24 - Getting Started: Undergraduate Research & Creativity @ 5:30pm, online link TBD
- Fri, May 3 - 6th Annual Research & Creativity Symposium, Bluffs & 3rd Floor Student Union