Finding Assistance For Your Research
Prepare:
- Define the “help” you need on the continuum from task-based to nearly independent work on a project segment
- Name the skills and attributes a student would need to possess for this role
- Decide the amount of time needed per week or month and approximately when it should be (work day, weekend, etc.)
Identify potential students:
- Consider eager, attentive, capable students in your classes
- Ask current undergraduate or graduate student researchers in your department
- Consult with colleagues or your chair
- Approach the department Council of Majors
- Announce the opening in your class or a class taught by a colleague
- Ask April L. Householder, Ph.D., who hears regularly from students seeking research opportunities
- Post information on your web page
- Contact UMBCWorks
Make it known that you are open to mentoring a student in his or her own work.
- Communicate your own research and creative interests in class and on your web site
- Name students and projects you have mentored
- Offer to discuss the value of independent projects with students in your Council of Majors
Learn about campus-wide programs to support undergraduate researchers: