We are now accepting applications for Fall 2024 for both PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research and PSHSJ. Application forms and more details can be found here: https://www.pennscience.org/apply. Applicants are welcome to apply to multiple committees; please be sure to rank the choices in your email.
PennScience Journal of Undergraduate Research is a student group committed to promoting and raising the visibility of undergraduate research. This fall, we are newly launching PSHSJ, an open-access, peer-reviewed research journal committed to spotlighting the incredible research efforts of high school students.
Conducting research has become a standard part of many science majors' interests, and many students go above and beyond the call of the minimum requirements, spending long hours and summers in the lab. Some even begin their research careers while still in high school. Yet too often, this work goes unnoticed and unreported.
By creating a scientific forum for and by students, we hope to bring together young researchers, helping to make students feel that rather than participating in a disjointed and isolating endeavor, they are becoming a part of a true community of scholars. We also seek to raise the awareness of the outside community to research performed by undergraduates.
A key goal of our journal is to make publication more accessible to college students, providing a peer-reviewed journal dedicated solely to their work. Publication in academic journals is a time-consuming process which is not always suitable for the duration and scale of projects done by undergraduates; we seek to create another option will allow more students to publish their research.