{"id":4621,"date":"2012-08-14T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/?page_id=4621"},"modified":"2020-09-12T22:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:51:26","slug":"research-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/research-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Augsburg have the opportunity to conduct economic research. The Capstone course (ECO 490) introduces students to econometric theory and the process of economic analysis. \u00a0Many Augsburg students have presented at conferences such as the MidWest Economics Association Conference, Posters on the Hill &#8211; Washington D.C., and the National Conferences for Undergraduate Research (NCUR). In addition, students can present their research at Augsburg&#8217;s annual Zyzzogeton Research Conference.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, students can conduct\u00a0collaborative research with faculty as a research assistant. This allows for students to try out research for the first time or focus on a specific aspect of a research project. The Office of Undergraduate Research and Graduate Opportunity (URGO) provides funding for both academic year research grants and summer research assistantships. \u00a0See the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/urgo\/on-campus-research\/\">URGO Research<\/a>\u00a0site for additional details.<br \/>\n<div class=\"row\"><\/div><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2014\/03\/photo-NCUR-2013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Joel Huting, Brianna Noland and Ugaso SheikAbdi at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2013) at the University of Wisconsin \u2013 LaCrosse.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joel Huting, Brianna Noland and Ugaso SheikAbdi at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR 2013) at the University of Wisconsin \u2013 LaCrosse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2014\/03\/photo-cropped-ncur-2011-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Nathaniel Schenheit, Gregory Kugler, and Bryan Anderson, Prof. Hofrenning at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR \u2013 2011) at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathaniel Schenheit, Gregory Kugler, and Bryan Anderson, Prof. Hofrenning at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR \u2013 2011) at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2014\/03\/new-cropped-photo-2010-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"D. Stephen Drott, Caroline Bredal, Christopher Purcell and Khalid Adam at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR-2010) at the University of Montana, Missoula, MT.\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D. Stephen Drott, Caroline Bredal, Christopher Purcell and Khalid Adam at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR-2010) at the University of Montana, Missoula, MT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Augsburg have the opportunity to conduct economic research. The Capstone course (ECO 490) introduces students to econometric theory and the process of economic analysis. \u00a0Many Augsburg students have presented at conferences such as the MidWest Economics Association Conference, Posters on the Hill &#8211; Washington D.C., and the National Conferences for Undergraduate Research (NCUR). &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4621","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40566,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4621\/revisions\/40566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}