2026 URWC Conference: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Our 14th Annual Conference will showcase a selection of the extraordinary undergraduate projects prepared for the Writing Program’s research writing classes during 2025. 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 2026 Co-Chairs: Debra Keates and Arete Bouhlas
Conference Planning Internship Course
355:396 course information page
The URWC 2026 internship course is currently accepting intern applications. CLICK HERE FOR THE APPLICATION LINK.
URWC 2025 Program and Speaker Schedule
This conference would not be possible without the work of:
Our Conference Interns:
Emma Baker, Natalia Blaziak, Ryan Chawla, Maya Geunnouni, Matthew Lai, Micayla Longsworth, Kira Muzafarov, Allison Oh, Adithi Santhosh, Eesha Singh, Sara Srinivasan, Anthony Younan
Writing Program Faculty Readers:
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
Writing Program Faculty Mentors:
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
Additional thanks to:
Grace Kincaid, Janice Park, Dennise Delafuente, Pooja Hiremath, MaryEllen Maguire, Ryan Gillen, Leslin Charles, Lily Todorinova and Isaiah Beard.
The URWC is supported by:
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.
Click here to visit the URWC Archive!
The URWC Archive is a companion site and repository of past conferences. The current archive hosts URWC papers, posters and presentations for 2020 - present.
For more information about the Writing Program's research journal, Dialogues@RU, contact Tracy Budd (email: