Grants and Writing Resources for the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

On April 14, 2026, 143 UMHB students presented their research at Watson Scholars' Day, working with 26 faculty sponsors. Nineteen projects won awards in creative works, podium presentations and posters. The winners came from Christian Studies, Education, Health Professions, the Humanities, the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences and Exercise and Sport Science, and several of the winning posters were group projects.

Scholars' Day and Student Research

The Office of Research holds Watson Scholars' Day each April for research done at UMHB during the academic year. Undergraduate and graduate students both take part, with separate poster areas for each level. Work is entered as a podium presentation, a creative work or a poster, and the day ends with a lunch and awards session.

A student without a project yet can start at the Office of Undergraduate Research. It helps students join existing research or start a new project, can connect them with a faculty sponsor, and helps with presenting and possibly publishing the results. The Office of Research also oversees the Institutional Review Board, which takes applications through a Canvas course.

Writing Prizes and The Baylorian

The English department's scholarships and awards include the W. F. Hutmacher Scholarly Writing Award, an endowed prize for the best scholarly paper of the preceding calendar year. The overseers of the Undergraduate Research Program choose the winner with input from English faculty. English majors can also be nominated for the Cole-Taylor-Townsend Scholarship, and juniors and seniors for the Vann English Scholarship, which weighs need as well as merit.

The Baylorian is UMHB's student-produced literary and art journal. It has been in publication for more than 100 years and prints once a year in the spring, taking short prose, poetry and artwork from students, faculty, staff and alumni. Sending creative work to the journal counts as entering the Sigma Tau Delta Short Story Award and, for English majors, the Evelyn McFatridge Brashears Awards. The full-time English major with the best poem in the current issue receives the Bryan B. and Pauline Larimer Binford Endowed Scholarship.

Tutoring and Library Help

The Writing Cru works out of Suite 213 on the second floor of the Mabee Student Success Center. Tutors meet one on one, in person or online, on any writing assignment. They help with brainstorming, making sense of an assignment, grammar, punctuation and formatting. After each appointment the tutor sends a report to the professor. Workshops are held in person only.

Townsend Memorial Library publishes research guides and tutorials, keeps a Find Your Librarian directory, and answers questions through its Ask Us Now service.

Doctoral Dissertations

UMHB's graduate programs include doctorates in education, occupational therapy and physical therapy. The Doctor of Education is a 54-hour, three-year cohort program that meets on five Saturdays each semester. Its embedded dissertation model has students writing parts of the dissertation from the fall of their first year, with coursework and mentorship arranged around the research.

A dissertation chapter, a Scholars' Day abstract or a seminar paper can come to our editors for a last pass on grammar, consistency and format. See our University of Mary Hardin-Baylor dissertation and thesis editing and University of Mary Hardin-Baylor essay editing pages, or write to editors@editorsforstudents.com.

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