First Year Scholar: Faculty Involvement

Faculty Orientation: TBA; Hybrid

Faculty & Student Picture Day: TBA: In-Person

Bridgette Johnson will email you with links and updates.

Create A First Year Scholar Opportunity

In order to create robust undergraduate experiences, the First Year Scholars Program will fund and support project guides to play an active role in scaffolding research opportunities for first-time undergraduate students within their discipline and provide active mentorship to students engaging in applied and basic research and scholarly activity. Faculty/ Research Guides will play an active role in guiding first-year undergraduate students through all aspects of the research/scholarly activity process, including design of activities/ projects, nurturing proper techniques, data collection and analysis, reporting, publication and presentation of research findings at MURALS25.

Benefits of Involvement:

  • Stipend
  • Training on serving a diverse student population
  • Opportunity to introduce undergraduate students to undergraduate research
  • Assistance provided to enhance current research

Expectations:

  • Commitment to the entirety of the program (Orientation, Academy work, supporting students in prepping for the MURALS Symposium)
  • Faculty/ Research Guides will be part of a culturally responsive mentoring training (2 hours)
    • Students will be part of a “This is what a researcher looks like…” training that focuses on naming and challenging imposter syndrome for the student to claim their identity as a researcher
    • Academy groups will consist of at least 2 First Year undergraduate students and be engrossed in research that Faculty/ Research Guides have already begun or intentionally designed for this program
  • Faculty/ Research Guides will play an active role in guiding 1st Year Undergraduate students through all aspects of the research process, including: research design, nurturing proper research and laboratory techniques, data collection and analysis, reporting, publication and presentation of research findings.
  • Faculty/ Research Guides will facilitate weekly meetings with their First Year Scholars
  • Faculty/ Research Guides and FYS will maintain regular and proactive communication with the  MURALS Coordination team:
    • The Program Coordinator who oversees student Community Meet-Ups, Picture Day and other MURALS FYS events, and FYS Impact Logs
    • A MURALS Graduate Student Coordinator who will be assigned to help you and students with the development of the MURALS materials, logistics and resources
  • Faculty/ Research Guides will support students through a meaningful experience* resulting in the contribution to data-driven results

To see what is required of students, please navigate to this page.

* Meaningful Experience: the students are the driving force behind experimental design/project design, implementation of the methods to collect data, data analysis, presentation design, and oral communication of the results