Research
Tuesday March 10
URC-Sciences Office Hours with Assistant Director, Dr. Monica Gonzalez Ramirez
Tue 3/10 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
2110 Life Sciences Building
Have specific questions about your research journey? Join the Undergraduate Research Center for the Sciences for office hours with one of our directors.
Thursday March 12
FAIR and CARE Data Principles for Data Governance
Thu 3/12 • 1PM - 2PM PDT
When sharing data, researchers are often told be “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”. But what does this actually mean? How can researchers ensure their data complies with funder and publisher requirements and mandates while respecting data sovereignty, self-determination and privacy? Is “FAIR data” (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) the same thing as “open data”? This workshop will delve into these difficult questions and discuss how pairing the technical framework of FAIR Principles and the ethical framework of CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance can help ensure responsible stewardship of your research data. Instructors: Hannah Sutherland and Shelby Hallman
Wednesday April 1
URC-Sciences Office Hours with Dr. David Gray
Wed 4/1 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
Life Sciences Building, Room 2120
Have specific questions about UCLA Undergraduate Research Week or your research journey? Join the Undergraduate Research Center for the Sciences for office hours with one of our directors. These sessions are open to undergraduates who would like to discuss topics such as: Writing a STEM Abstract* Getting into research** Undergraduate research programs/opportunities Graduate school preparation Communicating your research *If your question is about writing your Showcase abstract, we recommend watching our Writing a STEM Abstract workshop before attending our office hours. **If your question is about how to get started in research, we recommend watching our Getting into Research workshop before attending our office hours.
Friday April 10
The Meaning of the American Revolution in 2026
Fri 4/10 • 9AM - 5PM PDT
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
This conference will gather a group of leading scholars to see where scholarship about the Revolution is on its 250th anniversary. Through their own research, they’ll address the many and exciting ways we’ve come to rethink this important event, including its broader continental and even global reach, and its racial and ideological underpinnings. Unlike a traditional academic conference, however, these talks will be addressed to a mostly non-academic audience of students and members of the public. In doing so, we hope to show non-scholars new ways historians are currently thinking about the meaning of this seminal event in U.S. and world history.
Tuesday April 14
URC-Sciences Office Hours with Dr. Monica Gonzalez Ramirez
Tue 4/14 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
Life Sciences Building, Room 2110
Have specific questions about UCLA Undergraduate Research Week or your research journey? Join the Undergraduate Research Center for the Sciences for office hours with one of our directors. These sessions are open to undergraduates who would like to discuss topics such as: Writing a STEM Abstract* Getting into research** Undergraduate research programs/opportunities Graduate school preparation Communicating your research *If your question is about writing your Showcase abstract, we recommend watching our Writing a STEM Abstract workshop before attending our office hours. **If your question is about how to get started in research, we recommend watching our Getting into Research workshop before attending our office hours.
Tuesday April 21
Wednesday April 29
URC-Sciences Office Hours with Dr. David Gray
Wed 4/29 • 2PM - 3PM PDT
Life Sciences Building, Room 2120
Have specific questions about UCLA Undergraduate Research Week or your research journey? Join the Undergraduate Research Center for the Sciences for office hours with one of our directors. These sessions are open to undergraduates who would like to discuss topics such as: Presenting STEM research* Getting into research** Undergraduate research programs/opportunities Graduate school preparation Communicating your research *If your question is about presenting STEM research, make sure to check out our Virtual Presentation Guidelines. **If your question is about how to get started in research, we recommend watching our Getting into Research workshop before attending our office hours.
Monday May 11
40th Anniversary Celebration of the Center fir 17th- & 18th-Century Studies
Mon 5/11 • 4PM - 6PM PDT
Royce Hall 314
Join us in celebrating the 40th anniversary of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, the nation’s first research center for early modern studies. At a moment when higher education is under siege, the study of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries might seem a luxury at best, irrelevant at worst. UCLA Professor of English Helen Deutsch, who served as the Center & Clark’s Director from 2017 to 2020, will present a review and celebration of the Center and its history, which refutes such assumptions. She will argue that the work of the Center and its partner the Clark Library—research, musical and theatrical performance, conferences, collaborations in many forms—is not a retreat to the past but rather an ongoing engagement with our present.
Tuesday May 12
URC-Sciences Office Hours with Dr. Monica Gonzalez Ramirez
Tue 5/12 • 11AM - 12PM PDT
Life Sciences Building, Room 2110
Have specific questions about UCLA Undergraduate Research Week or your research journey? Join the Undergraduate Research Center for the Sciences for office hours with one of our directors. These sessions are open to undergraduates who would like to discuss topics such as: Presenting STEM research* Getting into research** Undergraduate research programs/opportunities Graduate school preparation Communicating your research **If your question is about presenting STEM research, make sure to check out our Virtual Presentation Guidelines. **If your question is about how to get started in research, we recommend watching our Getting into Research workshop before attending our office hours.
Tuesday May 19
LIVE Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase
Tue 5/19 • 12:30PM - 4:50PM PDT
The Undergraduate Research & Creativity Showcase is Undergraduate Research Week’s main event. Hundreds of students will gather here on the Undergraduate Research Week website to share their work on student-initiated and faculty-led research and creative projects in livestreamed panels on May 19, 2026, and as recorded presentations and multimedia throughout the week.
Friday May 22
Undergraduate Research Week Awards Ceremony
Fri 5/22 • 2PM - 3:30PM PDT
Join us for the virtual Undergraduate Research Week Awards Ceremony, where we will celebrate the close of Undergraduate Research Week and honor winners of the Dean’s Prize and Faculty Mentor Award! Join Us on Zoom https://ucla.in/4rpBgS9