Dominican Research Opportunities

The work of moving research and creativity from an ambitious mission to an operating unit is still ahead of us. However, the programs below already provide Dominican students with rich opportunities to develop their abilities as independent and collaborative scholars.

Rosary College's Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Investigations (URSCI) offers undergraduates the opportunities to work as faculty research assistants and engage in intensive independent research projects. For more information, visit URSCI or contact Professor and URSCI Director. Irina Calin-Jageman.

The Dominican University Honors Program invites incoming students with a record of high achievement and faculty-nominated sophomores to take part in a program that both provides its students with challenging and discipline-crossing seminars and challenges them to pursue an independent research or creative product over the course of their junior and senior years. For more information, visit the Honors Program or contact co-Directors Mickey Sweeney, at msweeney@dom.edu and Clodagh Weldon, at cbrett@dom.edu.

The Office of Research and Creativity will complement the rich intellectual culture these offices foster. This new office will provide programs that make the sometimes hard to imagine work of research and expression imaginable and tangible for students and expand opportunities for them to engage in well-crafted scholarship and self-expression. We invite all of the Dominican University community to help us give shape to these initiatives.

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Projects for Research and Creativity in the months and years to come include:

  • Developing new curricular and extracurricular opportunities for students to collaborate in research with faculty members
  • Providing students opportunities to collaborate in research with one another across both disciplinary and undergraduate / graduate boundaries
  • Sponsoring workshops and group discussions that allow students to enjoy meaningful interactions with potential mentors who work in literature, the arts, natural sciences, social research or other areas of scholarship
  • Fostering new forums for students to investigate their intellectual interests independently and share their research or display their artistic expressions publicly
URSCI Expo 

The Office of Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Investigations (URSCI) hosts an annual Exposition the first week of April.

This day-long event has become a highlight of Dominican’s academic year. Over the past two years, approximately 10 percent of the undergraduate population has participated by:

  • Giving oral presentations
  • Poster presentations or
  • Exhibiting their artwork 

Fellow students can support the presenters and look for inspiration for their own research projects. For more information, please contact Professor and URSCI Director Irina Calin-Jageman.

Global Learning Symposium

During the Global Learning Symposium, graduate and undergraduate students, faculty and staff will showcase global learning experiences they have enjoyed at Dominican University.  The Global Learning Symposium takes place in Parmer Hall, in conjunction with the URSCI Expo. The Symposium will include poster presentations, oral presentations and student panels. If you're interested in applying to participate in the Global Learning Symposium, apply now. If you have any questions about this new program, please contact Paul Simpson.