Program Overview

The purpose of the OURE Fellows Program is to increase the quality of experiential learning for Missouri S&T students, funding has been made available to support interdisciplinary research projects for undergraduates. "Interdisciplinary" constitutes the combination of two or more academic disciplines or fields of study.
Note that this is a competitive program and only up to 6 fellowships will be awarded per academic year.

OURE Application

Applications close March 21st

Read instructions & requirements below carefully:

  • Research must be interdisciplinary
  • Group projects are not allowed
  • Previous OURE Fellow participants are eligible
  • Interested students should contact their research advisor
  • Research advisor and student must discuss their project and come to an agreement

Students are required to:

  • Have a cumulative grade point of 2.50 or higher to participate in this program
  • Be a full time student with a least 12 credit hours per semester
  • Have successfully completed or successfully complete by April 1, 2025 an OURE or OURE Fellows project to apply for the OURE Fellows Program
  • Meet criterion by oral presentation of final report
  • Submit final report and reflection to their research advisor by April 1, 2025
  • Have their research advisors approval to submit an application

Note:

  • Late applications will not be accepted
  • Projects start at the beginning of Fall Semester and end at the conclusion of Spring Semester each Academic Year (no exceptions)
  • The research advisor agrees to supervise the work and certifies the educational value of the proposed project

OURE students will be awarded a scholarship of $2000.00

Payments will be offered in two installments:

  • 1st payment will be in December ($500)
    • Upon research advisor confirmation of working
  • 2nd payment in May ($1500)
    • Upon approved submission of final report & reflection by their research advisor
    • Participated in the spring S&T research conference

Note for international students regarding OURE payments:

Generally, a foreign person is subject to U.S. tax on its U.S. source income.  Most types of U.S. source income received by a foreign person are subject to U.S. tax of 30%.  A reduced rate, including exemption, may apply if there is a tax treaty between the foreign person's country of residence and the United States.  The tax is generally withheld (NRA withholding) from the payment made to the foreign person.  The term NRA withholding is used in this area descriptively to refer to withholding required under sections 1441, 1442, and 1443 of the Internal Revenue Code.  Generally, NRA withholding describes the withholding regime that requires 30% withholding on a payment of U.S. source income and the filing of Form 1042 and related Form 1042-S.  Payments to all foreign persons, including nonresident alien individuals, foreign entities and governments, may be subject to NRA withholding.

Each funded project must provide a final report and reflection.

Research advisor must submit approved final report & reflection electronically by April 1 to Dedie Wilson at dediewilson@mst.edu

Proposal Guidelines
Arts and Humanities Report & Reflection Guidelines for 2025-2026
Engineering, Sciences and Social Sciences Report & Reflection Guidelines for 2025-2026
Example Reflection

  • Section 1: Student must have successfully completed an OURE project and must have advisor approval to submit application, there are 5 sections in the form.
  • Section 2: Student Information - First and Last Name, Id Number, S&T Email, GPA, Department, Have you successfully completed or will successfully complete an OURE project by April 1, 2025, Will you graduate FS, Will you be a full time student both semesters.
  • Section 3: Research Advisor Information - First and Last Name, S&T Email, Department.
  • Section 4: Project Title, Short OURE fellows Abstract, Description of Students Role.
  • Section 5: Offer Letter, Scholarship, and Final Report Information.

The Writing and Communication Center is a tremendous source for feedback and assistance about your OURE reports and reflections. From brainstorming to polishing, the Writing Center can help you at any stage of your writing process. Please visit their website for more information: https://writingcenter.mst.edu/. You can also email them at writing@mst.edu

The OURE program encourages students to seek research support at the Curtis Laws Wilson Library. Research librarians are available to help applicants conduct research in any subject area. Please schedule an appointment here.

Proposal and Oral Presentation Judging Criteria
Final Report and Oral Presentation Judging Criteria

  • Individual will orally present their research proposal before a panel of judges via ZOOM on April 15 or 16, 2025 (student & research advisor will be notified by April 18, 2025)
  • Individual will orally present their research findings before a panel of judges via ZOOM April 9, 2025 (student & research advisor will be notified by April 11, 2025)

Note that that judges do not have to award all 6 fellowships, and proposals that are not awarded for the OURE Fellows Program will automatically qualify for consideration of the traditional OURE Program.

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  • A Method For Treating Certain Cancers Using Radioactive Nanoparticles
  • Accessing the Production and Feasibility of a Modern Biofuel Reactor
  • Alternative Materials for pistol and rifle cartridges.
  • Amorphous Oxide Semiconductors with high crystallization temperature for CMOS applications
  • Analysis of 1,4-Dioxane in Plants for advanced applications of phytoforensics
  • Analysis of Detonator Efficiency in Initiating Sheet Explosive Based on the Fragmentation Energy
  • Antibacterial Properties of Bioactive Materials
  • Assessment of soil development indicators after revegetation of highly degraded mine tailings
  • Binary Addition/Subtraction Emulator for K-12 Education
  • Biochemical Reactors for Metal Removal
  • Bio-digester
  • Bioremediation of nutrient pollution in urban ponds
  • Building the USSR: State Feminism during the New Economic Policy (1921-1932)
  • Change of material properties over the radiation
  • Characterizing High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete for 3D Printing
  • Comparison of Laboratory grade Mesoporous Bioactive Glass to a Production Batch
  • Consumption trends
  • Correlation of the Nanomorphology of Aerogels to their Drug Uptake and Release Profiles
  • Cost Effective Synthesis of LFP
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis of Electric Cars in the Kansas City Area
  • Curve Ball Bullet
  • Cytokinesis & Dbf2
  • Data Analysis for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
  • Deconstructed 555 Timer and Application Circuits for Interactive Educational Experiences
  • Deep Learning for Skin Lesion Structure Assessment
  • Deep Spiking Neural Networks
  • Density fluctuation measurements in supersonic flow
  • Design and Development of an Elbow Exoskeleton for Intuitive and Comfortable Human-Machine Interaction
  • Design of FPGA Development Board I/O Expansion Daughter Board(s)
  • Developing a Database for Individual Outputs of WormPop
  • Developing a Database for Individual Outputs of WormPop
  • Developing Computational Model of Competitive C. Elegans Population Dynamics
  • Developing Hamiltonian Simulation Algorithm
  • Development of Force Perturbation Handle for Physical Interaction Research in Humans
  • Development of superconducting circuit-based qubits
  • Discrete Electronic Design of a Guitar Pedal
  • Disrupting Dephosphorylation of Iqg1 in Budding Yeast
  • Drosophila Sleep Modeling Project
  • Eating Color: The Importance of Food and How it Looks
  • Eavesdropping on the Microbial World: Quorum Sensing in Plant Microbe Interactions
  • Economic Policies For Low Carbon Technologies
  • Educational Display of Wireless Power Transfer
  • Effects of Ally Confrontation on Target Outcomes
  • Enhanced Bioremediation of Mine Tailings
  • Evaluating wildland firefighter dispatcher operational errors
  • Evaporative Cooling
  • Exploring STEM Barriers for Rural Students: Perceptions from Caucasian and African American High School Students
  • Feeding C. Elegans: are indigenous bacteria preferred over E. Coli?
  • Fire dispatch cognition analysis
  • From Medical Necessity to Fad: A History of the Gluten-Free Diet
  • Fungal communities and stress streams
  • Gas Separation due to Adsorptive Materials
  • Ground states of rare earth metal digermanides.
  • Hamiltonian Simulation
  • Hemipteran and Coleopteran diversity at Fort Leonard Wood
  • Hybrid (Additive and Subtractive)
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  • Hysteresis Loops in 3D Color-Space of Oscillating Reactions: Exploration of Generality and Mechanistic Interpretation
  • Identifying genes expressed with biological aging
  • Implementing Gripper System With Drone
  • Improve labeling-efficiency of neural network models
  • Improving Gamma Ray Detection with Interferometry
  • Improving Wind Tunnel Performance with Machine Learning
  • Industrial Methanol Production Evaluated by Nuclear Magnetic
  • Resonance Relaxation
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  • Interactive Building Modeling for Experiential Architectural Engineering Education
  • Investigating the Impact of Environmental Policies in the Energy Sectors
  • Investigating the Potential of Blended Feedstocks for Biofuel Production via Pyrolysis Process
  • Ionizable Lipid Nanoparticles Characterization for Gene Delivery
  • Irradiation disorder effects on magnetic Weyl semimetal
  • Isotropic versus Anisotropic Strength in Concrete 3D Printing Based on
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  • Low Form-Factor Wind Power Turbine
  • Machine Learning Circuit Component Recognition
  • Magnetic Properties of Materials via Classical Molecular Dynamics
  • Microwave Materials Characterization for Reduced Carbon Footprint
  • Geopolymer Concrete
  • Missouri S&T Satellite Research Team - M3
  • Missouri S&T Supersonic Wind Tunnel Flow Characterization
  • Modeling climate resilience of rural populations in Missouri
  • Modeling Fairness Preferences Across Diverse Stakeholders in Kidney Placement
  • M-SAT Research in Cislunar Nanosatellite Applications for Search and Rescue
  • Music and Autobiographical Memory Across the Lifespan
  • Nanoparticle Removal of Endotoxins
  • Neutron Doping of Silicon
  • NMR Relaxometry as Performance Measure of Aging Asphalt
  • Novel Supercritical Biodiesel Plant Design and Process Scale Up
  • Optical Analysis of Ultracold Atomic Samples
  • P. pacificus and aggressive behaviors
  • Passive Intermodulation Effects On RF Desense In Cellphones
  • Phylogeography of the Bigmouth shiner, Notropis dorsalis, using nuclear gene loci
  • Pollution Prevention Research
  • Power and Systems
  • Powering the Future: A Comprehensive Review on the Economic and
  • Technological Impact of EV Extreme Fast Charging
  • Research and Improvement of a Metal Additive Manufacturing Process
  • Research Experience in Computational Hypersonics
  • Research of Semi-Autonomous Loader and Shovel Operations
  • Role of native mycorrhizal fungi to facilitate establishment of compatible prairie plants on mine waste
  • Scalable Algorithms to counter persistent threats for large Cyber Deception Games
  • Searching for the Magnetic Signature​ of the Liquid-Solid Phase Transition in Metals
  • Simulations of Hamiltonian Evolution Over Time Using Quantum Computation
  • Sleep Analysis of Drosophila
  • Sleep Biology Fly Project
  • Small scale demonstration of the automation engineering process
  • Solving for Tomorrow: A glimpse into drought tolerance in Soybean-Bacteria Symbiosis
  • Strain Rates and Geodesy of Faults
  • Structural integrity of lattice structures before and after ballistic deformation
  • Synthesis of Phosphite-based Cathode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries
  • Synthesis, Characterization and Crystal Structures of the Unsymmetrical (E,E) 4-halophenyl-1-phenoxy-1,4-dimethylbutadienes
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  • The Divergent Writer: Outcome-based Writing Instruction for
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  • The Gender Bias in the Billboard Top 100 Charts
  • The Human Mind
  • The Potential of Laser Additive Manufacturing Processes
  • Thermal Conductivity of High Entropy Alloys
  • Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis(TGA) on Scale During The Heating Process
  • Towards Understanding Dust Attenuation of Emission Lines with Illustris TNG Galaxies
  • Tuning physical properties of magnetic Weyl semimetal
  • Uncertainty quantification of thermal capacitance calorimeter for high-enthalpy flows
  • Understanding f-electron contributions using Laser Ablation-Equipped,
    Chirped Pulse FTMW spectroscopy
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  • Wireless LEDs
  • Megan Benkendorf, a senior in applied mathematics, advised by Dr. Yanzhi Zhang professor in mathematics and statistics.
  • Erik Bergstrom, a senior in biological sciences, advised by Dr. Andrea Scharf assistant professor in biological sciences.
  • Grace Duong, a senior in environmental engineering, advised by Dr. Mark Fitch associate professor in civil engineering and Dr. Dev Niyogi professor in biological sciences.
  • Jessica Frame, a senior in psychology, advised by Dr. Amy Belfi assistant professor in psychological science.
  • Steven Karst, a senior in physics, advised by Dr. Shun Saito assistant professor in physics.
  • Clare Koerkenmeier, a senior in biological sciences, advised by Dr. Andrea Scharf assistant professor in biological sciences.

Proposals that are not awarded for the OURE Fellows Program will automatically qualify for consideration of the traditional OURE Program.