About GURC
The Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (GURC) itself strives to serve students and faculty in the Southeastern United States as the region’s premiere undergraduate research and creative endeavors conference. The once-yearly conference promotes the dissemination of original student scholarship conducted in partnership with a faculty/staff mentor. Further, GURC serves as a networking conference providing undergraduates with connections to career and graduate school opportunities.
GURC is hosted each year by a member of the Georgia Undergraduate Research Collective, an organization dedicated to promoting high-quality undergraduate student-faculty collaborative research and scholarship across the state of Georgia and the surrounding region.
Previous Conferences
- 2013, 2014 – Columbus State University
- 2014, 2015 – Georgia Southern University
- 2016, 2017 – Georgia College & State University
- 2018, 2019 – University of North Georgia
- 2020, 2021 – University of West Georgia
- 2022, 2023 – Valdosta State University
Next Conference
Executive Board, Georgia Undergraduate Research Collective
- President, Lavonna Lovern, Valdosta State University
- Immediate Past-President, Kate Theobald, University of West Georgia
- President-Elect, Dan Walter & Chris Blake, Oxford College/Emory University (GURC 2024 & 2025)
- Secretary, Kymberly Harris, Georgia Southern University