Founded in January 2020, Curiosity is an interdisciplinary academic journal featuring articles by outstanding undergraduate and graduate students, and emerging and established scholars (affiliated or independent). We welcome submissions from authors around the globe.
Curiosity is an open access and peer-reviewed journal produced and edited by Utah Tech Faculty and Students. Enrolled in an internship-style class, student editors get to engage in real-world active learning opportunities in digital journal production. Curiosity is also managed through the Utah Tech Research Office with financial and administrative support provided by the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs at Utah Tech University.
Utah Tech is the first open and polytechnic comprehensive university in the country with the lowest tuition cost in the state of Utah. We are open in all ways: open enrollment; open educational resources; open exploration in undergraduate research; home to an open at-cost Makerspace for the university and community; open innovative pedagogy; and, open access scholarship.
“Theory surely leads to practice. But practice also leads to theory. And teaching, at its best, shapes both research and practice. Viewed from this perspective, a more comprehensive, more dynamic understanding of scholarship can be considered, one in which the rigid categories of teaching, research, and service are broadened and more flexibly defined.” –Ernest L. Boyer
As a polytechnic university in the 21st century, we believe interdisciplinary conversation and collaboration is more important than ever to think critically about innovative approaches for solving today’s complex problems. We believe in a human-centered approach to technology and engaging undergraduate students in research as a transformative learning experience.
In this way, Curiosity builds bridges and opens the conversation by bringing voices of intellectuals from diverse backgrounds with wide-ranging expertise to a historically insular world of academic publishing. We encourage collaborations between students and faculty that enable mentorship and new research.
We seek to publish works across the spectrum of academic disciplines. Our readers can expect material that is original yet firmly rooted in research and scholarship. This journal highlights pieces that are thought-provoking, insightful, and inventive.
So from all of us to you—welcome—we are sure you will find something to spark your curiosity.
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road