But instead of high impact, I'd like to talk about the heft of these moments. In our pixilated and digitized lives, undergraduate research transforms us because there's something about discovery and innovation that feels substantial. Weighty. Real. That sense of substance: of a lasting and authentic intervention in the age-old human work of meaning-making and comprehension…. Even here, in this digital journal hosted within the evanescent medium of the Internet, that sense of heft can be felt.
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