Undergraduate Research Week starting April 19 spotlights inquiry as Educational infrastructure across the United States, raising Awareness that original work starts before grad school. The observance showcases Education through poster symposia, three-minute thesis sprints, and dataset releases where students defend methods, not just results. Offices of undergraduate research map pathways from IRB training to conference travel, while faculty share mentorship models that scale from archive dives to zebrafish husbandry. Libraries teach citation managers and data repositories, treating scholarship as a pipeline with versions and peer review. By funding summer stipends and publishing undergraduate journals, the week argues that research literacy is general literacy, and every discipline benefits when students ask questions with data behind them.
