Abstracts for the COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge due Feb 15!

Undergraduates are invited to participate in the COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge! This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students to leverage the NSF-funded COVID Information Commons (CIC) research and collaboration hub to learn about COVID research and develop a paper with their own insights.

Undergraduate students from around the world and of all academic interests are encouraged to participate. Winning papers will have the opportunity to be published on the CIC website, added to the Columbia University Academic Commons, and presented at a future CIC event. Please visit the Challenge webpage for further details and to sign up, and to view a demo video of how a student may use the CIC to do their research for a paper. Paper abstracts are due February 15 and the final paper April 1. 

Proposals for the 2021 Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference due Feb 10

We are happy to announce that the 2021 Scholarship and Social Justice Undergraduate Research Conference will be held (virtually!) on April 8th  & 9th, 2021.  We are soliciting proposals from undergraduates who are conducting independent research. Here is a link to the request for proposals (RFP): Link to RFP: SSJ Request for Proposals or https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6GAWBBxqqRx2C21

For 2021, we are primarily interested in research that focuses on groups, communities, or issues underrepresented in research. This year, we are looking for proposals that address health, education, and political access.  Below are some examples of previous successful proposals. 

  • The Politics of Representation: A Study on the Impact of Electoral Systems in the United States- Mills College
  • Incorporating Native Hawaiian Knowledge, Community, and Culture in Health Research: The Challenges of Multicultural Settler Colonialism- Harvard College
  • Speaking for Ourselves: The Evolving Activism of Black Psychiatry from Integration to Black Power- Harvard College
  • Whose Schizophrenia? How Race, Class, and Gender Intersect with Conceptions of Psychiatric Diagnosis-Wesleyan University