[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1654 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1654

Expressing support for designation of the week of October 24, 2010, as 
                    ``Undergraduate Research Week''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2010

Mr. Holt submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing support for designation of the week of October 24, 2010, as 
                    ``Undergraduate Research Week''.

Whereas close to 600 colleges and universities in the United States and 
        thousands of undergraduate students and faculty pursue undergraduate 
        research every year, providing research opportunities that will shape 
        the trajectory of students' lives and careers and researchers' and 
        institutions' purpose and contributions to academia and the research 
        enterprise;
Whereas students and faculty engaged in undergraduate research contribute to 
        research across many disciplines, including arts and humanities, 
        biology, chemistry, health sciences, geosciences, mathematics, computer 
        science, physics and astronomy, psychology, and social sciences;
Whereas research at the undergraduate level provides both students and faculty 
        members opportunities for improving and assessing the research 
        environment at their institution, develops critical thinking, 
        creativity, problem solving, and intellectual independence, and promotes 
        an innovation-oriented culture;
Whereas undergraduate research is essential to pushing the Nation's innovation 
        agenda forward by increasing the interest and persistence among young 
        people in the crucial science, technology, engineering, and mathematics 
        (STEM) disciplines, and to cultivating the interest of would-be 
        researchers who pursue a new aspiration of graduate education after 
        participating in undergraduate research;
Whereas the combining of two national organizations that advocate for important 
        investments and support for undergraduate research and undergraduate 
        researchers, the Council on Undergraduate Research and the National 
        Conferences on Undergraduate Research, have come together to support the 
        endeavor warrants recognition; and
Whereas the week of October 24, 2010, would be an appropriate week to designate 
        as ``Undergraduate Research Week'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the designation of ``Undergraduate Research 
        Week'';
            (2) recognizes the importance of undergraduate research and 
        of providing research opportunities for the Nation's talented 
        youth to cultivate innovative, creative, and enterprising young 
        researchers, in collaboration with dedicated faculty;
            (3) encourages institutions of higher education, Federal 
        agencies, businesses, philanthropic entities, and others to 
        support undergraduate research and undergraduate researchers 
        and their faculty mentors;
            (4) encourages opportunities, including through existing 
        programs, for females and underrepresented minorities to 
        participate in undergraduate research; and
            (5) supports the role undergraduate research can and does 
        play in crucial research that serves the Nation's best economic 
        and security interests.
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