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How to mentor undergraduate researchers

April 24, 2012 by John

The mentoring that I received as an undergraduate paved the way for my entrance to grad school and my future research. The Council on Undergraduate Research has a publication devoted to the topic of mentoring undergraduate researchers, summarized at the Undergraduate Research Laboratory. Among the suggestions:

  • Actively recruit students
  • Work on numerous projects together
  • Recognizing your limitations as a mentor

None of these are groundbreaking, but they may be particularly helpful for assistant professors who are just starting out and do not have a large number of students that they would be interested in working with.

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Posted in Sage Advice, Teaching Tricks | Tagged Council on Undergraduate Research, Memoirs of a SLACer, Mentoring, Undergraduate Research Laboratory, Undergraduate Researchers | 1 Comment

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  1. on April 7, 2015 at 9:05 pm Faculty mentoring | Memoirs of a SLACer

    […] institution regularly went out of her way to ensure that I knew what was going on. Unlike mentoring undergraduates or graduate students, at the faculty level I think that successful mentoring is mostly about […]



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