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Creating Opportunities
During the academic year, we will work to connect you with undergraduate students with educational backgrounds and interests that align with your research interests and needs.
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Academic Year Programming
Summer Programming
During the summer months, we coordinate a series of workshops, career mentoring speakers, and an end-of-summer culminating poster symposium for all undergraduates taking part in research at WVU.
We work with faculty and administrators of on-campus summer research programs (e.g., NSF-funded REU Sites, Center for Neuroscience SURI) to coordinate, organize, and advertise these activities to all interested parties.
We also work with the Honors College to administer the Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE) program involving 8-weeks of summer research mentored by WVU faculty members. We encourage you, as a faculty research adviser, and your undergraduate researchers to apply to the SURE program.
WVU Shared Research Facilities
Advice for Funding
Pre-funding
For faculty who are working to secure funding for research involving undergraduates, we've compiled useful resources to make your proposal writing easier.
Post-funding
We offer advice on how to administer an undergraduate research site or support just a few undergraduates in research.
Awards for Distinction in Mentoring Undergraduates in Research
2022 Award Winners (left to right, up to bottom): Angel Smothers, Brian Popp, Joel Beeson, Nicholas Turiano, William Walker, and Erin Hudnall.
Additional Information...
High School Students in Research:
297/397/497 Courses:
The Office of Undergraduate Research uses the institution-wide course offerings of 297, 397, and 497 (tagged as Research. 1-6 Hr. Independent Research Project) to track undergraduate research in different majors/departments across the institution.
If your department currently does not have the 297/397/497 course numbers offered as part of the undergraduate curriculum, it is easy to activate them. The 297/397/497 course numbers are "common course numbers that can be created/activated at any time. The requesting department should notify the Office of the University Registrar that they would like these created".