Research Skills and Opportunities

As Virginia's largest public research university by enrollment, we encourage all our students to add to the world's knowledge through their own research projects.

Here are resources that are meant to help you improve your research abilities and give you opportunities to showcase your research.

Resources for Developing your Research Skills

University Libraries

The University Libraries provide a host of in-person and virtual resources: 

  • Digital Scholarship Center: Data & Digital Scholarship Services (DDSS) partners with students, faculty, and staff by providing research support to facilitate data-focused research and teaching across the university in all disciplines. 

  • Printing Arts Lab (PAL): offers research poster printing services, design instruction, and two PC workstations for in-lab use. 

  • Research Development Academy:  These workshops are tailored to enhance your research management and data skills. Sessions will focus on using Zotero for citation management, understanding how to use data in your work, and the process for completing and submitting your dissertation. Students who complete three workshops in this series may be eligible to receive conference funding via the Graduate Division's Travel Research Incentive Program. 

  • InfoGuides: subject and discipline specific research guides 

  • Digital Humanities : A guide to the concepts and tools of the expanding field of digital humanities 

Office of Research Integrity and Assurance (ORIA)

The Office of Research Integrity and Assurance (ORIA) carefully curates and provides resources related to research ethics and research requirements: 

Research Development Services

The Research Development Services (RDS) offices provide many services and resources to both faculty and graduate students designing external grant proposals: 

Graduate Research Funding

Graduate Research Opportunities

  • Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE): housed in the School of Business, CIE supports students across programs and schools at Mason in their entrepreneurial endeavors and interests. Launch a business with their Patriot Pitch Competition or imagine solutions to industry problems in their Student Design challenge! 

  • Global Education Office: The Global Education Office facilitates the study abroad application and scholarship processes. Check which programs cater to graduate students and apply!

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