Undergraduate Research Awards___________________________
These awards provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. Students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply. Many Linehan Artist Scholars apply and receive this award. For further information, contact the Office of Undergraduate Research.
URA applications are typically due in early May.
- You need a mentor, typically from your art major department
- You’ll need to start working on your proposal in early February because you need time to discuss your research with your advisor and make revisions.
- URA awardee must enroll in a 0-credit, no-cost PRAC through the Career Center
- Attend required PRAC workshops during the semester
- Complete the required PRAC online check-in surveys
- URA requires that you present your research at URCAD (mid-April).
- Turn in a final report that summarizes the completed research and distribution of funds.
The application should describe a project that is valuable and feasible. The student should demonstrate appropriate baseline knowledge of the subject. The committee looks favorably on situations where the student has completed a literature review and demonstrates some mastery of the techniques to be applied.
Interdisciplinary work is encouraged. Students with interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged to have a mentor in each key discipline. Students may specify with which discipline their proposal should be evaluated, or ask that it be evaluated, by two or more discipline-specific sub groups.
URCAD (Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day) | Linehan Scholar PRESENTERS 2025
Ida Dierker | Taking Back the Piano (Music)
Jack Harvoth | Identifying the Impact of Restoration Through the Lens of Historical Musical (Music)
Petra Janka | Hungarian Folklore Motifs Study Instrument Repair (Visual Art)
Lilli Malone | The Salem Witch Trials: A Case Study for Cultural Disaster (Theatre / Humanities)
Mike Mentley | RDS-1, Reef, and Sarmat: Russia’s Ядерное (Nuclear) Weapons Then and Now (Visual Art – cinema)
Racheal Tyler | Artistic Growth: A Study Into Cultural Exposure and the Discovery of New Levels of Creativity and Expression (Visual Art)
Jonathan Veale | Monsters After Midnight: Known Vs Unknown Fear Within Film (Visual Art – cinema)