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The Summer Undergraduate Research Guided Experience (SURGE) program provides stipends and flexible programming for WashU undergraduates pursuing faculty-mentored, project-based inquiry across all academic disciplines during the summer. Submissions for SURGE open on December 15, and materials are due March 1, 2026, including a required nomination from a faculty research mentor.

The symposium will showcase the diverse range of research and creative inquiry conducted by WashU undergraduate students. Presenters will participate in one of multiple sessions between 10 am - 4:30 pm on Friday, April 17, in Frick Forum (1st floor) and other locations in Bauer/Knight Halls. All WashU undergraduate students are welcome to present their faculty-mentored, inquiry-based projects, including works in progress, and all community members are encouraged to attend!

Has a professor sparked your interest in a topic during a course? Is there a project or an area of research that you have been dying to explore? If so, you may want to consider research as an undergraduate. Undergraduate research gives you a chance to dig deeper into a discipline with the guidance of a faculty mentor.

Undergraduate Research has partnered with academic departments and programs to understand the different contacts, policies, and opportunities regarding undergraduate research in their units, which we host in this central inventory.