• Though they may be less experienced and skilled than graduate students in your field, undergrads who seek out research work are often enthusiastic and ready to be shaped into productive, insightful workers. They provide you an opportunity to become a mentor, and perhaps impart a lifelong impression on a person just entering a productive career.
• Undergrads may bring experiences from outside your discipline into your work, and thus enrich your own perspectives.
• Undergraduate students can open possibilities for you to become more involved in the university community and its surroundings, thus helping to raise the profile of VCU as a center for active learning.
• The VCU 2020 strategic plan calls for “the development and maintenance of faculty and student learning communities, the development and maintenance of opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student interaction and research initiatives[.]” You can help move VCU toward its vision of excellence by developing opportunities for undergraduates to get research experience.]

POTENTIAL SOURCES OF FACULTY OR STUDENT FUNDING FOR UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

NSF – Research Opportunities for Undergraduates Program

The Honors College has research programs for undergraduates that provide support for honors students to work in faculty labs  

Summer Research and Training Opportunities:  VCU also has some special undergraduate research training programs for which students who work with you might be eligible.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE EVALUATION TOOLS

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