UNDERGRADUTE RESEARCH
The university is a place of both teaching and research. Research by faculty informs and enriches the classroom experience and allows students to progress from the fundamentals in a field to its advanced and more nuanced branches of inquiry, and on toward the production of new knowledge. Faculty instruct students not only in the content of an area but also its methods of independent inquiry that will lead to new insights and discoveries. Undergraduates engage in research themselves to increasing degrees as they move from foundational courses to more advanced courses and more closely defined topics. Advanced students in a major can engage in independent, supervised research sometimes as juniors, usually as seniors, possibly for departmental honors, as a way of demonstrating their mastery of both content and methods in the field and their ability to formulate and pursue a line of inquiry, which may lead to new knowledge.
Undergraduate research gets done in the respective departments. This webpage along with the awards, events and publications here listed attempts to present an overarching perspective on Undergraduate Research across the disciplines at Hofstra University. The presentation of research, the sharing of knowledge, is the life-blood of the academic enterprise, and we all benefit from knowing what our hardest working, most advanced students have accomplished.
Hofstra Horizons for Undergraduate and Graduate Research
Hofstra Horizons for Undergraduate and Graduate Research serves as complement to the existing Hofstra Horizons that focuses on faculty research at Hofstra University.
Opportunities
Alumni
Help fund undergraduate research
Your support could contribute to important discoveries and vital educational experiences.
Research
Find funding for your presentation
If you’re seeking to present your research at a professional conference, we can guide you to the right resources for securing financial support.
Careers
Become a research assistant
Qualified Honors College students can serve as paid research assistants to faculty across different fields and programs at Hofstra.