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Banner with text Undergraduate Research Fair, :00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., October 14, 2025, ARC Ballroom. The banner features vibrant, colorful abstract artwork, blending a mix of blue, yellow, green, and red hues. In the foreground, there are visuals representing a person with sensor headset, researcher with plants, and a researcher looking through a microscope.

Undergraduate Research Fair

On Oct. 14, discover research opportunities and learn about ongoing research projects on campus.

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A person wearing a white lab coat, safety goggles, and blue gloves uses a pipette at a lab workstation. The workstation is filled with colorful lab supplies including microcentrifuge tubes, racks, pipette tips, and various containers. The individual is smiling slightly and appears to be in the middle of an experiment.

Early research opportunities accelerate career options

  • by Ginger M Welsh

From funded scholar programs to an annual research conference, the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Center connects students to hands-on research experiences.

Last year, more than 1,000 students participated in the center’s programs, courses, workshops and annual research conference.  With the start of the fall quarter, the center offers new ways students can build skills that go far beyond the classroom — such as learning transferable research skills — and may open doors to career pathways.

A person wearing a white EEG cap covered with numerous electrodes and wires sits facing the camera. Additional sensors are attached to their face, including one on the forehead with a circular black-and-white target design and another near the cheek. The person is wearing a light-colored sweatshirt and is seated against a dark background,

UC Davis puts student researchers in the forefront

  • by Ginger M Welsh

Undergraduate students find pathways to research in traditional and avant-garde ways at the University of California, Davis. For many undergraduates, early exposure to research sculpts their career journeys in new direction. Every year, the Undergraduate Research Center introduces and connects students to hands-on research through programs, conferences, workshops, awards and mentor-mentee opportunities.

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