Grants and Writing Resources for Trevecca Nazarene University

Trevecca's student research symposium reached its 33rd year in spring 2026 with 73 student presenters, a number the psychology professor it now honors called likely an all-time record. The first one, in 1993, had fewer than ten. The event has since been renamed the Carden Student Research Symposium. A year before that record, 24 Trevecca students took 13 projects in psychology, the social sciences, biochemistry and history to the 2025 National Conference on Undergraduate Research in Pittsburgh.

Research for Credit

Trevecca counts creative work in the arts and scholarship in the humanities as undergraduate research alongside lab and field studies. Students can join a faculty-led project through FLARE (Faculty-Led Academic Research Experiences), a 1-3 credit course with a required application. An independent project runs through three one-credit courses: a proposal with a literature review and methods outline, the completion of the work, and a final presentation, which can take the form of a submission for publication, a public talk or a performance. English, theology, music, the sciences, business and several other departments offer the sequence.

Graduating students with strong records can propose a project for the With Honors recognition. The minimum is a 3.65 GPA in the major and 3.00 overall. At the spring symposium, students present original research in 20-minute sessions, and listeners move between rooms to hear talks from many fields.

Department Awards

Departments name their own winners. Among the 2024-2025 student academic awards, the Department of English gave awards for Excellence in Writing and Excellence in Scholarship, Waggoner Library gave an ACL Research Award, and the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences gave a Psychology Research Award and a History Award. The School of Theology and Christian Ministry's list includes the William Strickland Church History Award and a Theological Studies Award. Trevecca calls membership in Phi Delta Lambda, the Church of the Nazarene's honor society, its highest academic honor.

Student Publications

The Cumberland River Review, Trevecca's national literary journal, is a quarterly online journal of new poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Undergraduates can serve on its staff, and students in the creative writing concentration take staff positions there.

Campus reporting runs in TrevEchoes Online, which covers news, features, sports and student life and has its own podcast.

Writing Help and Dissertations

The TNU Writing Center works on citation formatting and on writing in general, and its request forms are open to all students, graduate and nontraditional students included. Tutor.com, available around the clock, sits in the left-hand menu of each Canvas course. Students upload a draft there and get feedback within a day.

Doctoral work goes to Waggoner Library. Its dissertation guide covers the Ed.D. and the Ph.D. in Clinical Counseling, with print copies from Ed.D. cohorts since 2001 and from the Ph.D. program since 2010. Ph.D. dissertations stay in the Reference section for in-library use. Many are also searchable online in ProQuest's Dissertations & Theses @ Trevecca collection.

When a paper, thesis, or dissertation is ready for a final edit, our editors can help. See our Trevecca Nazarene University dissertation and thesis editing and Trevecca Nazarene University essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.

From Our Writing Guides

• The Lecture as a High-Stakes Professional Presentation
• ProQuest Readiness: The Final Mechanical Audit
• Navigating the IRB: Ethical Oversight as a Structural Requirement