Student Guide to Research, Fellowships and Graduate Study
Explore summer research Opportunities!
NSF-GRF Applications are due in mid-October!
Meet with your advisor or mentor and start planning!
Undergraduate Students
All Mizzou students can participate in research with a faculty mentor to begin building their research careers. The Office of Undergraduate Research can help you find and apply for undergraduate research opportunities. Contact us at 573-882-5979 or send us an email to make an appointment.
Students with advanced research interests and established faculty mentors can begin creating a body of work to support applications for presentations, summer programs and prestigious awards and fellowships. Students interested in a research career should be working closely with a faculty mentor.
Steps
It's never too early to start thinking about graduate school.
Steps
Graduate Students
Graduate students with a growing body of work should begin thinking about doctoral and postdoctoral work. All graduate students should build applications for prestigious and highly prestigious awards and fellowships to find funding for their education and advance their academic progress. Contact the graduate student adviser in your department or program or connect with an adviser in the graduate school to get started.
High School Students
Mizzou is a premier research institution — and our faculty and students work together every day to answer big questions that improve our world and how we live in it. And it’s more than just lab science — scholarship comes in all shapes and sizes and degree programs. Do you want to add to the body of human knowledge? Apply to the Honors College when you’ve been accepted to Mizzou!