This timely book presents undergraduate research as a powerful vehicle for engaging students in addressing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Hensel begins with a comprehensive foundation on the SDGs and higher education's evolving role in advancing them and then examines specific goals through detailed case studies and exemplary programs that showcase cross-disciplinary student research in action. These narratives illuminate the complex challenges and innovative solutions that emerge when students engage directly with pressing global issues: from climate action to poverty reduction to health equity. Both a call to action and a playbook for any faculty member involved in undergraduate research, this text also functions as an important resource for administrators and policymakers seeking to support student discovery and innovation.

Nancy H. Hensel has had an extensive career as a professor, university president, executive officer of the Council on Undergraduate Research, and President of the New American Colleges and Universities. She is now an independent scholar.