Faculty
ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ing to STARS
Application Closed
The faculty application for the 2025-2026 school year is now closed. The program is expected to start on August 29, 2025. Check back at the end of the year for the 2026 Summer REU and 2026-2027 school year. For questions, please contact us below.
To Our Faculty Mentors
The goal of this program is to ensure exposure to undergraduate research early and throughout the student’s university and college career with support services that ensure students develop a sense of STEM self-efficacy, receive timely information, receive proactive advising and mentoring, and foster students’ sense of belonging to both higher education and the STEM community. We ask that faculty members strongly encourage students from traditionally under-served groups in postsecondary education, such as low-income students, first-generation students, and other disconnected students to apply for the STARS Program/
Mentor Eligibility & Requirements
We are recruiting faculty members interested in supporting the undergraduate research mentorship under Engage. Faculty participating in the Engage Undergraduate Research Experience will:
- Establish a mentoring relationship with the student(s) accepted into their labs.
- Design a research project that allows CPP and community college students to be engaged in several of the following:
- Literature Review
- Experiment Design
- Data Collection
- Data Analysis
- Research Presentation.
- Articulate structure for the research experience which could be as short as one semester, or spans over multiple semesters, including a full-time (8-week) summer research program.
- Be available to students across the research project providing guidance and feedback on their work and engaging student(s) in conversation about the project to help them strengthen their analytical and critical thinking skills as well as their understanding of the discipline.
- Guide in the development and approval of a student‐made research poster and research paper.
- Participate in faculty mentor workshops before the start of the research program.
- Participate in occasional student cohort-building activities during the research program.
- Complete all pre-and post‐surveys to help assess the undergraduate research program.
