Undergraduate Research: Resources at Kettering

Advancing Undergraduate Research is designed to share successful models and strategies for promoting and funding undergraduate research programs.

Engaging undergraduate students in research, scholarship, and creative activity is a proven and powerful practice for enhancing educational outcomes and expanding frontiers of knowledge. This book is a rich collection featuring institutions that are maximizing the impact of this practice.

The volume focuses on three broad areas: curricular elements and teaching and learning strategies that develop critical research skills, curricular infrastructure that enhances a research-supportive curriculum, and administrative contributions that initiate and sustain a research-supportive curriculum.

The authors discuss many aspects of providing support for faculty who involve undergraduates in research. Hopefully this book will provide inspiration and encouragement to administrators and faculty to design solutions to these challenges that can be integrated into campus practices and cultures.

How to Start an Undergraduate Research Journal provides justifications and strategies for beginning and/or sustaining undergraduate research journals—whether institutionally, nationally, or internationally.

This volume addresses the special rewards and challenges in connecting undergraduate students with change oriented community-based projects and provides a roadmap for implementing CBR with undergraduates.

Science in Solution shifts the science education focus from alarms about the shortage of STEM workers to the professional and personal benefits of undergraduates engaging in research.

This is the next-generation reference book and manual for those who are seeking to start or enhance existing undergraduate research programs, drawing on the wisdom and experience of more than 25 contributors.

This is the first comprehensive, data-based study of the benefits to students who actively participate in authentic science research programs.

This concise introductory guide explains the values that should inform the responsible conduct of scientific research in today's global setting.

Despite all of the information that exists to encourage students to attend and do well in college, this is the first research-based guide that directly advises first- and second-year college students.

Designed to supplement the informal lessons in ethics provided by research supervisors and mentors, the book describes the ethical foundations of scientific practices and some of the personal and professional issues that researchers encounter in their work.

This resource outlines the various stages of large-scale science research, enabling you to coach your students through any assignment.

This book will show you how to develop successful strategies for teaching undergraduates how to conduct basic research and write papers.