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Writing is not just about conveying information; it’s a mode of thinking and self-expression. For those of you who are musicians, it’s like playing the piano or violin, or for those who are artists, it’s like painting or composing a photograph; or for those who are athletes, it’s like maneuvering for a jump shot. It’s a different way to engage the world. Writing is its own kind of activity, the following of a line across the page, a movement of thinking through time. 

Writing is often thought of as being solipsistic, something you do by yourself, in your own mind. And there’s some of that, but it’s also a way to forge connections with the best that has been thought and said, of reaching out to connect with other people, scholars, thinkers, ideas.  

It’s always retrospective and prospective, reaching back to the past, making new for the future. Writing changes the world—changes it, most immediately, for the writer, but then also for anyone who reads what the writer says in the future. It rearranges the network of human interaction. 

The emphasis at the URWC is the WP's skill in teaching students research writing skills that enable them to find success in classrooms university-wide, and in professional situates postgraduation. Synthesizing and conveying knowledge is an important component of that. But that’s not the endpoint. The endpoint is represented by the exceptional work you’ve done for the class, as represented in the presentations held during the 2025 URWC.

Thank you to Debra Keates and Arete Bouhlas for organizing the URWC, and to the faculty who taught our WP students. They individualized time to help students believe that they can read and analyze difficult source materials and use them to develop independent stakes in the world.  

Our 13th Annual Conference showcases a selection of the extraordinary undergraduate projects prepared for the Writing Program’s research writing classes during 2024. We think you will enjoy our student-led team’s highly competitive selection, and wish to wholeheartedly applaud all work done by the program’s students and faculty as beacons that point us toward the future. 

URWC 2025 Co-Chairs: Debra Keates and Arete Bouhlas

Emma Baker, Natalia Blaziak, Ryan Chawla, Maya Geunnouni, Matthew Lai, Micayla Longsworth, Kira Muzafarov, Allison Oh, Adithi Santhosh, Eesha Singh, Sara Srinivasan, Anthony Younan

Alex Buzick, Anthony Alms, Brie Ashley, Carla Caponegro, Chaz Freeman, Claire Celi, Dawn Lilley, Donald Dow. Elif Sendur, Erin Kelly, Ian Bignell, Jacqueline Loeb, Jacqueline McDaniel, Janet Ansine, Joann Messina, Jonathan Bass, Jordanco Jovanoski , Lauren Kimball, Liz Decker, Lynda Dexheimer , Michael Masiello, Michael Monescalchi, Mike Duffy, Nancy Martin, Peter J. Morrone, Peter Molin, Raluca Musat, Reagan Lothes, Snow Lee-Jones, Tara Malanga, Tim Hedges, Trisha Egbert, and Will Schwartz

Donald Dow, Dawn Lilley, Raluca Musat, Carla Caponegro, Claire Celi, Peter J. Morrone, Snow Lee-Jones, Jordanco Jovanoski, Mike Duffy, Will Schwartz, Erin Kelly, and Peter Molin

Grace Kincaid, Janice Park, Dennise Delafuente, Pooja Hiremath, MaryEllen Maguire, Ryan Gillen, Leslin Charles and Lily Todorinova

The Rutgers Writing Program, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers Department of English, the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers Business School, the School of Engineering, and the Ernesto Mario School of Pharmacy.