Faculty Resources

MSUB Resources

If you have students that are interested in research, but aren't sure how to mentor them through the process, there are several resources available on campus that can help get you and your students started.

Resources Relevant to Students

• Research & Creativity Symposium: Takes place every April on the MSUB campus. All students are welcome, no matter the major, to participate in our celebration of student scholarship.
• If your student(s) are planning to do any human subjects research, before they start any study, they must go through the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process.

Resources Relevant to Faculty

• Sign up for the MSUB Grants Bulletin: Sent out monthly
• Internal grant opportunities, some of which include funding for student workers, can be found on this website through the Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs.

External Resources

Mentoring Resources

• Mentor Agreements:
  • Create a Mentor Agreement - University of Colorado Boulder
  • Mentor-Mentee Contract - University of Georgia
  • Mentor-Mentee Contract - CSU Northridge
• ReMentURS: Seminar program that includes videos to use when mentoring remote researchers

Funding

There are many grants through private, state, and federal funders that provide monies to hire undergraduate student researchers. For more information and questions about how to fund your own project, please contact the Office of Grants & Sponsored Programs. Some common sources for funding are:

• NIH Supplements for Summer Undergraduate Research
• NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
• Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics

Patent Information

MSU: Strategies to Preserve Patent Protection when Writing Proposals and at Early Stages of Projects

Further Reading

• Bull, H., Giesbrecth, D., & Mills, S. (2021). From Student to Researchers (in one Term!). Undergraduate Research Blog, University of Saskatchewan. https://vpresearch.usask.ca/students/undergraduate/undergraduate-research-blog/undergraduate-research-blog.php
• D’Abate, C. P., Eddy, E. R., & Tannenbaum, S. I. (2003). What’s in a Name? A Literature-Based Approach to Understanding Mentoring, Coaching, and Other Constructs That Describe Developmental Interactions. Human Resource Development Review, 2(4), 360–384. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534484303255033
• Dooley, D. , Mahon, R. and Oshiro, E. (2004). An Undergraduate Research Opportunity: Collaboration Between Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Journal of Food Science Education, 3, 8-13. doi:10.1111/j.1541-4329.2004.tb00034.x
• Handelsman, J., Pfund, C., Miller Lauffer, S., and Pribbenow, C. (2005). Entering mentoring: A seminar to train a new generation of scientists. The Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching, University of Wisconsin.
• Schwartz, R. S., Lederman, N. G., & Crawford, B. A. (2004). Developing views of nature of science in an authentic context: An explicit approach to bridging the gap between nature of science and scientific inquiry. Science education, 88(4), 610-645.