Mission

Our mission is to encourage and facilitate undergraduate student participation in research, scholarship, and creative activities.

What is CURCE?

The Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Engagement (CURCE) is an integral part of the University at Albany in the advancement of the mission, vision, and priorities. We make a daily investment in students who are on their path to identifying and exploring opportunities that will help them to develop competencies necessary to become engaged citizens.

CURCE provides students with access to experiences that enhance student success. Our team engages students as they explore opportunities that compliment and reinforce their classroom learning through research, scholarship, and creative activities on campus, in the community, and around the world. We are partners to the campus community as we work to expand research at the University through experiential learning opportunities for undergraduates, and ultimately raise the profile of UAlbany as the nation’s leading diverse research university.

Through CURCE, we will help students define and author their success as Great Dane Leaders of the future.

Who Can Be Involved?

Whether you are an incoming freshmen, or entering your senior year, research, scholarship, and creative activities at the University at Albany is an option for all students, across all academic disciplines. You will be able to learn more about a specific academic field or career path all while building a long-lasting mentoring relationship with a faculty member or principal investigator.

How Can I Get Involved?

Use the Get Involved and the Explore Opportunities by Topic and Academic Department pages on this site to find out how you can become involved.  Students can explore the different opportunities for funding through CURCE by visiting our Student Awards and Funding page!