Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate research at Mercer provides students with hands-on experience that complements the breadth of their education.
At Mercer, students are given the opportunity to take the lead in top-level research endeavors, which transforms them into scholars who answer tough and relevant questions. Our students work closely with faculty members, not graduate students, in state-of-the-art facilities to complete projects that contribute new knowledge to their fields of study.
Featured Project
Research aims to identify earlier signs of disorders like ADHD, autism
A Mercer University professor is conducting cutting-edge research that could lead to earlier screening for children with suspected learning disabilities, behavioral problems or neurological delays.
Additional Projects
Professor’s tick and mosquito research aims to reduce occurrence of disease in humans
A Mercer University professor is working to reduce incidence of tick- and mosquito-borne illnesses through his ongoing research and public education.
Students design, develop space-themed arcade game
Juniors Rajwol Chapagain and Maret McWhorter created Starship Showdown, an arcade game, as part of the communication theory research lab at Mercer University.
Research project examines mental health of revived music festival community
A collaborative project between Mercer and Northeastern universities revealed a surprising commonality among the attendees of a revived music festival: life trauma.
Innovative program aims to decrease teen pregnancy through storytelling
A Mercer University professor is reaching Middle Georgia teens through a unique pregnancy prevention program that is tailored to them and harnesses the power of storytelling.
Mercer project digitally preserves history of small northeast Georgia county
Towns County lies nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of northeast Georgia. Home to about 12,500 people, the county is rich in heritage, yet little of its people’s stories have been preserved.