National Awards

Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program
http://www.dreyfus.org/th.shtml

Opportunities for Students

National Science Foundation, Research Experiences for Undergraduates (NSF REU):
http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/reu/

Tahoe-Baikal Institute's Summer Environmental Exchange
http://www.tahoebaikal.org
This is a 10-week international program for upper-division undergraduates to study environmental science and policy located at Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia and Lake Tahoe in California and Nevada. Application Deadline: February 10, 2004.

The American Physiological Society, Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships
http://www.the-aps.org/education/ugsrf/index.html

Conferences

Proceedings: Reinvention Center Conference: Undergraduate Research and Scholarship and the Mission of the Research University
November 14-15, 2002, College Park, MD

Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS): http://www.abrcms.org

Council on Undergraduate Research: http://www.cur.org

National Conferences on Undergraduate Research: http://www.ncur.org

Project Kaleidoscope: http://www.pkal.org

Sigma Xi Student Research Conference: http://www.sigmaxi.org/meetings/student

Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research: http://www.sccur.uci.edu

Journals

Journals accepting submissions from all campuses:

Journal of Young Investigators: http://www.jyi.org
Online peer-reviewed national journal of undergraduate research

Caltech Undergraduate Research Journal: http://www.curj.caltech.edu
Online journal accepting submissions from undergraduate students at all institutions

American Institute of Physics, Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics: http://www.aip.org/education/sps/ultraviolet/jurp.htm

Department of Energy, Journal of Undergraduate Research: http://educationlink.labworks.org/edulink/journal/

Journals for students at specific campuses:

MIT Undergraduate Research Journal: http://web.mit.edu/murj/www/index6.html
Publishes articles by MIT students with the intent of educating a general MIT undergraduate audience about their peers' work

University of Arkansas, College of Agriculture, DISCOVERY Undergraduate Research Journal: http://www.uark.edu/depts/agripub/Publications/Discovery/2000/index.html

University of Rochester, Journal of Undergraduate Research: http://jur.rochester.edu/index2.html

University of Utah, Undergraduate Research Abstracts: http://www.lib.utah.edu/epubs/undergrad/

Evaluation of Undergraduate Research

The American Physiological Society, Planning an Effective Program Evaluation: http://www.the-aps.org/education/promote/promote.html

Foertsch, J.A., Alexander, B. and Penberthy, D.L. (1997). "Evaluation of the
UW-Madison's Summer Undergraduate Research Programs: Final Report,"
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison, LEAD Center.

Hathaway, R.S. et al.(2002). "The Relationship of Undergraduate Research Participation to Graduate and Professional Education Pursuit: An Empirical Study." Journal of College Student Development 43 (5): 614-631.

Kardash, C.M. (2000). "Evaluation of an Undergraduate Research Experience:
Perceptions of Undergraduate Interns and Their Faculty Mentors," Journal of Educational Psychology 92: 191-201.

Nagda, B.A. et al. (1998). "Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Partnerships Affect Student Retention." The Review of Higher Education 22 (1): 55-72.

Rauckhorst, WH (2001). "Measuring the Impact of the Undergraduate Research
Experience on Student Intellectual Development," Project Kaleidoscope
Summer Institute, Snowbird, UT.

Ward, C. and Bennett, J.S. "Content Analysis of Undergraduate Research Student Evaluations." Unpublished report. (http://www.udel.edu/raire)

Zydney, A., Bennett, J.S., Shahid, A., and Bauer, K. (2002) "Impact of Undergraduate Research Experience in Engineering." Journal of Engineering Education 19 (2): 151- 157.

Zydney, A., Bennett, J.S., Shahid, A., and Bauer, K. (2002). "Faculty Perspectives Regarding the Undergraduate Research Experience in Science and Engineering." Journal of Engineering Education 19 (3): 291-297.

Mentoring

Bender, C. "Advance Science - Mentor an Undergraduate!" The Pharmacologist 42 (3), 141-145. 2000.
http://www.aspet.org/public/educ_resources/mentoring_an_undergraduate.pdf

Frierson, H.T.,Jr., ed. Examining Protégé-Mentor Experiences. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1998.

Frierson, H.T.,Jr., ed. Mentoring and Diversity in Higher Education. Stamford, CT: JAI Press, 1997.

Gonzalez, Cristina. "Undergraduate Research, Graduate Mentoring, and the University's Mission." Science 293 (August 31, 2001). http://www.sciencemag.org.

Other Topics

Allen, R.C. "Why Professors Should Learn to be Fund Raisers." The Chronicle of Higher Education. B4-5. November 13, 1998.

"Forecast in the Lab? Chance of Rain..." Quantum, College of Engineering Newsletter, Boston University. Spring 2000.
http://www.bu.edu/eng/magazine/spring2000/contents/feature050.shtml

Hammer, S. "Enhancing Biological Understanding Through Undergraduate Field Research." The Journal of General Education 50 (3), 192-201. 2001.

Nikolova Eddins, S.G. and Williams, D.F. "Research-Based Learning for Undergraduates: A Model Merger of Research and Undergraduate Education." Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 8 (3), 77-94. 1997.

Nikolova Eddins, S.G. and Williams, D.F. "Strategies for Sustainable Integration of Research Activities With an Established Curriculum." Journal on Excellence in College Teaching 8 (3), 95-108. 1997.

"Report on Integrating Research and Education" A Special Edition of Report on Research. The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ. 14 (2). Spring 1998.

Strassberger, J. "Embracing Undergraduate Research: It's a National Trend." AAHE (American Association for Higher Education) Bulletin 47 (8), 3-5. May 1995.

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