Research Generators are communities of inquiry that are designed to jumpstart new or expanded research led by teams of faculty, staff researchers, and students. RGs cultivate research thinking and enable students to complete their scholarly project requirement through course offerings and non-credit-bearing experiential learning. RGs each have a broad, interdisciplinary theme and welcome students from any major. Faculty/staff members in fields associated with the theme are invited each year to become affiliates. Initial funding of new research generators is for a three-year period.
PATTeRN: Print as Art, Text, Technology-Research, a JMHC Research Generator
PATTeRN (Performance, Art,Text,Technology Research Network) offers undergraduate students the opportunity to collaborate with established practitioners in the creative and industrial arts, on projects that confront social, historical and political contexts by traversing the line between elevated and informal culture. The research conducted in conjunction with PATTeRN addresses two primary questions: What are the forms of communication that define everyday life? How can art make use of these forms to offer new perspectives on our collective condition? While there are countless ways in which artists engage with the expressive power of common patterns, this interdisciplinary network of artists, designers, performers and writers coheres around a shared interest in the experimental possibilities of repetition and permutation.
TREKS - Transformative Research via Engaged Knowledge and Scholarship
The Transformative Scholarship Research Generator exists to bring local, regional, national, and international students. faculty, industries, and communities together to develop engaged undergraduate scholars equipped to change the world through the co-creation of knowledge and mutually beneficial projects, tools, and resources focused on improving the quality of life.
Interdisciplinary Sports Studies
ISS is an interdisciplinary network of scholars, practitioners, and students from Purdue University, the United States, and around the world whose research, teaching, practice, or learning interests intersect with sports. The community is undergraduate student-centered, where faculty and staff guide the direction of the generator. Our members examine sports from various perspectives including not limited to history, culture, media, science, engineering, technology, economics, politics, race, class, and gender.
HIFI Bioconservatory
The aim of the HIFI Lab at the John Martinson Honors College (JMHC) at Purdue University is to cultivate a vibrant undergraduate interdisciplinary community of JMHC undergraduate students interested in the science, technology and culture of conservation and sound.
HEalth Ambassadors with the LPRC (HEAL)
The Research Generator (RG) HEalth Ambassadors with the LPRC (LPRC stands for Eli Lilly and Company and Purdue University Research Alliance Center) is a community of practice of students, faculty, and staff interested in the pharmaceutical industry challenge of developing effective and affordable therapeutics to tackle the diseases that currently affect large portions of the world population from cancer to Alzheimer, to diabetes, and many more.
Tech Justice Lab
The Tech Justice Lab (TJL), housed in the Belonging, Equity, and Inclusion Unit of the John Martinson Honors College at Purdue, is a cross-college collaboration that prioritizes the development of interdisciplinary, justice-oriented undergraduate technology researchers and practitioners. The TJL builds on the Honors College’s mission of fostering well-rounded and highly engaged students, equipped with the interdisciplinary knowledge and skills to impact society for the better. Interested students from any discipline, with guidance from TJL affiliated faculty and peers, will develop their toolkits of critical frameworks for evaluating the ethics and social impacts of technology.
Computing for Community Collaboratory (C3)
Launching in Fall 2024, the Computing for Community Collaboratory (C3) offers undergraduates an exciting opportunity to join interdisciplinary research teams that use computing to tackle the real-world challenges facing communities. By getting involved with C3, you’ll work on impactful research projects and participate in hands-on events where you can build innovative solutions for social good.
