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Eastern students conduct research in every major. Unlike at larger institutions, where faculty-mentored research is chiefly conducted by graduate students, Eastern students can start conducting professional research as early as their first year. Research projects can be team-based and part of a class or conducted as independent study. Students also have a host of presentation and publication opportunities to share their research and learn valuable professional/academic skills in the process. Faculty mentors in each academic department support student researchers, with overall coordination provided by the Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity.

Student Research/Creative Activity Highlights

Warriors at COPLAC

Another strong showing for Eastern at COPLAC

October 27, 2025

Fourteen students from Eastern Connecticut State University presented their undergraduate research at the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) annual conference from Oct. 17 to 18 at Keene State College in New Hampshire.

History student Emma Schafer and Prof. Balcerksi by Schafer's presentation poster

'Present from the Start' spotlights Black and Indigenous colonial history

September 29, 2025

More than 150 historians, graduate, and undergraduate students from across Connecticut filled the Student Center on Sept. 20 for a conference highlighting the forgotten histories of ethnic minorities in New England’s colonial era. “Present from the Start: People of Color in the Revolutionary Era” hosted a myriad of panels and presentations covering more than 200 years of legacy.

A student conducts research at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, CT.

EES professors publish research on Dinosaur State Park

August 26, 2025

Eastern Connecticut State University environmental earth science Professors Drew Hyatt and Peter Drzewiecki published several works in volume 66, issue 1, of the “Bulletin of the Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History” this spring, detailing their decades of work at Dinosaur State Park.