UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AT HSIs: Diverse Approaches and Best Practices Barbara Endemaño Walker, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara Jeannie Kim-Han, Cal State Dominguez Hills Marcelo Vinces, Ph. D., Oberlin College Lourdes Echecgoyen, Ph.D., UT El Paso

• The Role of Research Development in Catalyzing Undergraduate Research o Endemaño Walker

• Integrating UR as a Key Strand into the Fabric of

Student Success at a MSIs & PUIs o Kim-Han

• Enhancing Research at PUIs: A Report from an NSF-supported meeting of PUI researchers o Vinces

• Broadening and Sustaining Undergraduate Research

Participation at UTEP: Opportunities, Resources, Challenges, Synergistic Partnerships and Impact o Echecgoyen

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The Role of Research Development in Catalyzing Undergraduate Research

Dr. Barbara Endemaño Walker, Office of Research

Outline

• What is Research Development?

• RD and Undergraduate Research

• UCSB Case Study

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WHAT IS RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT?

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Research Development

• a set of strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building activities designed to facilitate individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding. o Central Office of Research or College/Division-

level units

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Research Development Activities

• Strategic planning for research • Funding opportunities search and dissemination • Junior faculty pre-tenure research mentoring • Administer limited submission and internal

funding competitions • Team building and formation • Proposal development support • Training and workshops

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NORDP

• Over 500 members • 45 states • 9 foreign countries • 257 institutions

o Majority are R-1s o PUIs (approx. 15-20% and growing)

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RD Community • Annual Conference

o May 19-21, 2014 in Portland, OR • Professional Development Webinars

o Crowdfunding o Supporting junior faculty o Growing a RD Office

• Listserv o Share best practices o Coordinate multi-campus collaborations o Seek and identify collaborators

• Regional Groups and Meetings

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RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

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Faculty-Oriented RD for UR • Liaisons between faculty and existing UR programs on

campus • Recruitment of Underrepresented Students

o Institute for Broadening Participation o SACNAS o Pathways to Science

• Support for data and other institutional sections of training grants

• Advocacy for release time • Seed grants for developing extramural proposals that

include UR components • Proposal Development

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Student-Oriented RD for UR

• Responsible Conduct of Research Training • Proposal writing workshops for students • Mini grants

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CASE STUDY: UCSB

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Diversity in the AAU

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Hispanic URM Total UC Santa Barbara 24.8% 28% The University of Arizona 20% 26% The University of Texas at Austin 19% 24% UC Irvine 18% 21% UCLA 17% 22% UC Davis 16% 20% UC San Diego 16% 18% Texas A&M University 15% 19% University of Southern California 13% 21% UC Berkeley 12% 16% Stanford 10% 17% California Institute of Technology 6% 14%

UC Merced 37% 46% UC Riverside 31% 38% UC Santa Cruz 26% 30%

Undergraduate Enrollment at AAU Universities

in States with High Latino Populations

HSIs in the UC System

UR at UCSB

• UR is decentralized • UR happens more so in the context of faculty

research programs • Focus in faculty grants is on UR for

underrepresented students • RD office aggregates UR opportunities,

training, and outcomes

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Research Funding at UCSB

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Distributed UR Network

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College of Letters and

Science

Associated Students

UC Natural Reserve System

STEM departments, institutes, and

centers

Social Science departments, institutes, and

centers

Office of Education

Partnerships Early Academic

Outreach

Distributed Network

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College of Letters and

Science

Associated Students

STEM Departments, Institutes, and Centers

Social Science departments, institutes, and

centers

Office of Education

Partnerships

• Title V – STEM • MESA • American Indian Scholars • Pathways to College

TRIO Upward Bound

•UC–HBCU Fellows (UCOP funding) • SKILLS - social science outreach to high schools (foundation funded)

• TRIO McNair • NSF AGEP for social sciences (UC DIGSSS)

Materials Research Lab Education Programs • Research Internships in Science and Engineering • NSF Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) grant program (UTEP-UCSB and Jackson State - UCSB) • California Alliance for Minority Participation • Cooperative International Science and Engineering Internships • Community College Interns in Materials Science • “Build a Buckyball” Workshop • Science Night Presentations Other Programs •Computer Science and Engineering NSF IGERT • Institute for Terahertz Science and Technology • Los Marineros - National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) & Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships • After School Clubs • Apprentice Researchers • CSC • Yuan-Lin Cultural Exchange Program • Family Ultimate Science Exploration • School for Scientific Thought • Science Fair Expo • Summer Institute in Mathematics and Science • Jack Kent Cooke • Expanding Pathways to Science, Engineering and Mathematics • Internships in Nanosystems Science, Engineering and Technology • Scholarships for Transfers to Engage and Excel in Mathematics • Beckman Scholars Program • Center for Energy Efficient Materials Internship

UCSB Center for Science and Engineering

Partnerships – CSEP http://csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/

• Leverage “Broader Participation” or outreach programs on research awards

• Faculty don’t have to reinvent the wheel • Centralized outreach center

o allows faculty to focus more on the outreach itself o stable staff, recruitment models, evaluation, and

programs o flexibility to accommodate different disciplines

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https://undergrad.research.ucsb.edu/

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VCR Witherell convenes annual UR symposium

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http://www.research.ucsb.edu/research-development/ca-hsi-conference/

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Contact

Barbara Endemaño Walker Director, Research Development Office of Research UC Santa Barbara 805-893-3576 walker@research.ucsb.edu

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Integrating UR into the Fabric of Student Success at aMinority-Serving andPrimarily Undergraduate Institution

Jeannie Kim-Han, Special Assistant to the PresidentHACU 2013

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The California State University

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23 Campuses 437,000+ students 44,000 faculty & staff 2.8 million alumni $7.9 billion total annual budget* Contributes more than $17

billion annually to the California economy

*includes state funding, tuition and all funds.

L a r g e s t f o u r - y e a r h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n s y s t e m i n t h e U . S .

CSU Dominguez Hills

Freshman 19.6% Juniors 30.5% Women 64.3% Full-Time 72.2% Average Age 25.5% First Gen 51.5%

Undergraduates

Total # = 2,247 15.3% of Enrollment Women 74.6% Full-Time 46.6% Average Age 35.1% First Gen 39.9%

Masters/Post Baccs

FA L L 2 0 1 3 S TAT S

Total Headcount: 14,670 Total FTES: 10,917

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CSU Dominguez Hills

American Indian/Alaska Native .3% Asian 11.0% Black/African American 17.7% Hispanic/Latino 54.5% Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander .4% White 12.9% Two or more races 3.2%

FA L L 2 0 1 3 S TAT S

Campus-wide Ethnicity

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Campus Program – 8 YearsSystem-wide Competition – 27 Years

Campus & System-wide Student Research Days

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2013 Student Research Topics

“Destroy the Box” Project (Art & Design)

Explaining Technology’s Disruption of our Sleep through Structural Equation Modeling (Psychology)

Multiple Timescale Comparison of the Aggregate Drought Index, the Standardized Precipitation Index, and Tree Rings in Southern CA (Environmental Science)

Investigating the Feasibility of Near Field Communication Vulnerabilities (Computer Science)

The Experience of Minority Parents Raising a Child with Autism: A Phenomenological Study (Occupational Therapy)

Ionized Radiation and Carcinogenesis in the Urinary Bladder (Health Science)

The Male as Dancer: Insights into Stress, Competition and Aggression (Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding)

Jazz Waves of Los Angeles (History)

The Planned Search for Free Neutron-antineutron Transformation using the nnbarXExperiment at Fermilab (Physics)

U.S. Department of Education Grants Supporting Student Research

McNair Program; Title III HSI STEM Grants; Title V Grants; International Research & Studies Program; Minority Science & Engineering Improvement Program (MSEIP); Fulbright-Hays Programs (Doctoral Research)

2012-13 McNair Scholars7

National Institutes of Health Grants Supporting Student Research Activities

Minority Biomedical Research Support Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (MBRS RISE); NIH Minority Access to Research Careers-Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (MARC-USTAR); Bridges to the Doctorate; Bridges to the Bacc

NIH MBRS & MARC-USTAR Students 2012

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NSF Grants Supporting Student Research Activities

Research Experiences for Teachers (RET); Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU); International Research Experiences for Students (IRES); LSAMP Bridges; STEP; WIDER

La Selva, Costa Rica CSUDH Work Crew 2012

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Campus-Funded & Private Foundation Funded Supports for Student Research

Faculty Research, Scholarly and Creative Activities 2012-14 Funding - $600,000; Keck Foundation Grant ($200,000); STEM Advantage Partnership ($96,000+); Annenberg Foundation ($300,000)

Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Brain Scanner & Cyber-Enabled Mass Spectrometer

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60 Faculty Mentors 15 Session Chairs (7 Deans, Assoc. Deans, Chairs)

63+ Judges (Majority T/TT Faculty) Every College Represented including Creative

Arts and Distance Learning Programs 147 Student Presentations 27 Poster Presentations 200+ Student Researchers

Student Research Day 2013 Stats

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CSUDH Approach to Institutionalizing UR

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Faculty Driven & Organized CSU-CUR Workshop Campus Presence Establish Ad-Hoc Faculty Committee External UR Presenter Office of Student Research Cabinet Level Support

Why are UR and HIPs Important?

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“65% of today’s grade school kids will end up at jobs that haven’t been invented yet.”

(U.S. Dept. of Labor: Futurework‐Trends and Challenges for Work in the 21st Century.)

Three Knowledge Domains for the 21st Century Student

Innovate 2038 & Futurist Thinking

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“Today’s paths to research and innovation won’t work in 2038.”

“’The first person to live to 150 is already alive,’ I think that's too conservative. I think the first person to live to 300 is already alive.” David Evans Cisco Futurist*

3D Printing - What won’t we be able to make?* “There will be more robots than there are humans in the

world by 2038. Many of them will be doing jobs now done by people.” David Evans Cisco Futurist*

*Cromwell Schubarth, Silicon Valley Business Journal

Contact Information

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Jeannie Kim-Han, Special Assistant to the President CSU Dominguez Hills Email: jkim-han@csudh.edu Phone: (310) 243-3301

Marcelo Vinces Director, Center for Learning, Education and Research in the Sciences Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio

OUTLINE

• What is a PUI? • Conference: Cal State Fullerton, July 2012 “Enhancing Biological Science Research Opportunities

at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs): Advancing Discovery While Training the Next Generation of Scientists”

• Outcomes • NSF funding for PUI research

What is a PUI? A definition from the National Science Foundation

PUIs include: U.S. two-year, four-year, masters-level, and small doctoral colleges and universities that (1)grant baccalaureate degrees in NSF-supported

fields, or provide programs of instruction for students pursuing such degrees with institutional transfers (e.g., two-year schools),

(2)have undergraduate enrollment exceeding graduate enrollment, and

(3)award an average of no more than 10 Ph.D. or D.Sc. degrees per year in all NSF-supportable disciplines.

PUIs contribution to the STEM pipeline

PUIs produce 13% of science & engineering bachelor degrees but if you normalize for total numbers of bachelors degrees

awarded, PUIs account for more than 50% of the top producers of students that end up getting a PhD in science and engineering.

Undergraduate research benefits to students to faculty to institutions

Constraints on Research at PUIs

• BIG teaching loads • No grad students or postdocs • Less resources • PUI researchers often work in isolation • Smaller scale research makes publishing challenging

Enhancing Biological Science Research Opportunities at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs): Advancing Discovery While Training the Next Generation of Scientists California State University – Fullerton, July 2012 NSF grant MCB 1245471 PI: Christopher Meyer

Enhancing Biological Science Research Opportunities at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs): Advancing Discovery While Training the Next Generation of Scientists California State University – Fullerton, July 2012 NSF grant MCB 1245471 PI: Christopher Meyer

“This conference will bring together, for the first time at a national level, diverse PIs to meet and discuss ideas and best practices and future prospects in building and sustaining research, crafting competitive grant proposals, integrating research into the curriculum, forging research partnerships and collaborations, and accurately assessing student research training outcomes.”

“One product of the workshop will be a report that will inform NSF BIO and the greater scientific community of successes, needs, and future prospects for PUIs. This workshop and website will provide a continuing opportunity for PUI PIs to network with each other as well as NSF staff and other stakeholders in a way that enhances efforts in undergraduate research.”

NSF presence

Parag Chitnis (MCB)

Sally O’Connor (DBI)

Diane Okamuro (PGRP)

Marcelo Vinces (MCB)

Judy Verbeke (DBI)

Vicki Martin (DBI) David Rockcliffe

(MCB)

Bob Slocum (IOS)

AGENDA July 26-28, Cal State Fullerton Campus Tours of research labs, undergraduate students Keynote talks Receptions Working breakfasts and lunches Presentations Break-out group Poster sessions

Applying Deliberate Creative Problem Solving (CPS) to Imagine the Ideal Future Research Environment at PUIs: How do we get there? What are the barriers? Which types of investments at PUIs could yield “Big Returns”? Andy Burnett, Knowinnovation

Speakers Beth Ambos, Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Malcolm Campbell, “Integrating Teaching and Research: What would McGyver do?” Susan Singer, “A Biologist’s Adventures in Discipline-based Education Research” Bob Slocum, “NSF Support of Research at PUIs” Vicki Martin, “Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Opportunities” David Rockcliffe & Sally O’Connor, “Preparing Competitive NSF Grants” Judy Verbeke, “PULSE Initiative and Undergraduate Research” Panels “Research Opportunities, Collaborations and Student Career Preparations” “Assessing Student Research Training Outcomes”

Frequent themes and ideas • Integration of teaching and research • Engaging more students early in research • Time constraints • Professional development & networking • Assessment • Campus culture & research • Building and sustaining research at PUIs

Post-workshop Is online community sustained? http://puiresearch.ning.com/ Are there more PUI submissions to NSF? Will there be follow-up meetings? Workshops? RCN? Write-up in Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Quarterly?

Bob Slocum (IOS)

Report • PUIs constitute majority of HSIs • NSF awards proportionately more to PUIs than NIH • Minority PIs – 7% of all awards but 13% of PUI awards • Overall rate of PUI awards equal to non-PUI (~15%) • Award success rate is higher when PUIs apply to Research at Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) grants (20.7% of RUI proposal vs. 11% of non RUI proposals) • Only ~4% of NSF panel reviewers are from PUIs

TAKE HOME

• The importance of PUIs in STEM pipeline • The high impact of research in undergraduate education • NSF has grants for PUIs, and favorable award rates • More reviewers from PUIs would be beneficial • PUI collaborative networks are possible and productive • Join CUR!

Opportunities, Resources, Challenges, Synergistic Partnerships & Impact

Lourdes E. Echegoyen Director of COURI

HACU Conference October 28, 2013

UGR recognized as one of 10 high impact educational practices

1. First year seminars

2. Common intellectual experiences

3. Learning communities

4. Writing intensive courses

5. Collaborative assignments & projects

6. Service learning

7. Undergraduate Research

8. Diversity/global learning

9. Internships

10. Capstone courses and projects

Kuh, G. D. (2008). High Impact Educational Practices. American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

Learning Communities Common Intellectual

Experiences

Collaborative Assignments & Projects

Intensive Writing

Service Learning Community-based

Learning

Diversity/ Global Learning

First-year Seminars & Experiences

Capstone Courses

Internships

The most comprehensive educational practice

A composite of all other high impact practices

Transform higher education

◦ Higher education is not an extension of HS

◦ It is not just about acquiring more of the already existing knowledge

◦ The business of academia is also about discovery and the creation of new knowledge

HENCE THE IMPORTANCE OF UGR Utilize and expand UG talent pool

Support, enhance, and disseminate existing UG research

programs

Initiate new programs for student engagement

Catalyze collaborations with other institutions and programs in the U.S. and abroad

Showcase undergraduate research, scholarly & creative activities

Recognize dedicated faculty mentors

Provide Prof. Dev. training to prepare UG students to compete effectively for graduate and professional programs

Transform higher education

Mentored research (internal and external)

Courses that include authentic research & scholarly activities

Workshops to provide professional & soft skills development to UG researchers

Measuring impact of activities

To establish an UGR Program/Office, in addition to

◦ Willing and able faculty research mentors

◦ Interested undergraduate students

You need…

◦ Facilities

◦ Equipment

◦ and much more…

Council on Undergraduate Research www.cur.org

A summary of best practices

1. Campus mission & culture

2. Administrative support

3. Research infrastructure

4. PD opportunities 5. Recognition

6. External funding

7. Dissemination 8. Student centered

issues

9. Curriculum 10. Summer research

programs 11. Assessment

activities

12. Strategic planning

(COEUR)

◦ Internal budget – to support Staff

Sustain student program(s)

Symposia

Travel (for staff and students)

Pilot new & original programs

◦ External funding – to support

More staff

Programs & students

Research expenditures

Symposia

Travel (for staff and students)

External Funding – some possibilities National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education Crosscutting Programs (for REU’s) National Institutes of Health MARC, RISE, Bridges to the Baccalaureate AREA (R15) grants (for smaller institutions) Other R-25 programs Department of Energy Faculty and student research at national laboratories Department of Defense: Office of Naval Research, Air Force, and Army Opportunities for student researchers. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration National Institute of Food & Agriculture Institute of Museum and Library Science Howard Hughes Medical Institute

External Funding

For additional information:

◦ Campus Research and Sponsored Programs Office

◦ Development Office

CUR Dialogues - annual meeting in Washington, DC, where faculty can meet with dozens of federal program officers, affiliated with more than 50 separate funding programs.

February 20-22nd, 2014 in Arlington, Virginia

To get started

Request a reasonable budget & staff support

Leverage existing resources Work-Study program Faculty Administrative Fellows program Faculty & staff expertise for student training & workshops Office of Sponsored Research Programs Office of Institutional Evaluation, Research & Planning

Apply for external support Develop a reputation of excellence & success Negotiate based on success – overhead return

Existing program directors initially felt “COURI not needed” – resistance to change - inertia

Getting every one on campus engaged & interested – the branding of COURI

Getting funded

Getting competent/passionate staff

Understanding and working with differences between colleges and departments (research, scholarly & creative activities)

Counting UG researchers

IT Managers Other UGR program champions on campus Provost Office Office of Research & Sponsored Projects Student Affairs Deans & Chairs Student Organizations & Honor Societies Center for Institutional Evaluation, Research & Planning Institutional Review Board Animal Care & Use Committee Environmental Health & Safety Office Housing

Started October 2010 in the College of Science ◦ Director ◦ Half-time Assistant Director ◦ Support from the CoS (IT, secretarial, administrative) ◦ Good budget to start (100K)

Existing UGR Programs Prior to COURI ◦ MARC – over 20 years ◦ LSAMP – over 10 years ◦ RISE – around 8 years ◦ Bridges – around 4 years ◦ Bioinformatics – around 1 year ◦ REU (in C&M Bio) – 3rd cycle

Mission Through collaborations with faculty mentors from all disciplines, COURI is committed to enriching the experience of UTEP students by facilitating their training in research, scholarly, or creative activities, enhancing their academic success and professional development, and showcasing the results of their work.

1st year (2010-11) ◦ Developed 1st version of COURI website ◦ Submitted a strategic plan (business plan) to

provost ◦ Funded (internally) 15 UG researchers ◦ Applied for 5 grants ◦ Held 5 professional development workshops ◦ Held the first AY symposium with 45 students ◦ Included an online abstract submission and

repository system ◦ Requested AD to be full time (granted effective 2nd

year)

2nd year (2011-12) ◦ Received 4 of the 5 grants ◦ Requested a FT Program Manager (granted) ◦ Funded (internally) 24 UG researchers ◦ Developed current version of COURI website and

websites (3) for newly funded programs ◦ College of Engineering came on board ◦ Held 6 professional development workshops (twice) ◦ Assisted colleagues in Biosciences to submit an REU

proposal ◦ Held a second AY symposium – 68 students ◦ Ran a summer symposium – 98 students ◦ Started an UGR summer exchange with an institution in

China

3rd year (2012-13) ◦ College of Health Sciences came on board ◦ Requested a work-study assistant (granted) ◦ Ran 3 new funded programs ◦ Funded (internally) 28 UG researchers ◦ Held 7 professional development workshops (twice) ◦ Received NOA for Biosciences REU ◦ Assisted REU PD to get it off to a successful start ◦ Institution in China sent us (funded by them) 12 students for

summer UGR training ◦ Submitted 1 more proposal – NIH BUILD Planning ◦ Requested additional assistance through the Provost Faculty

Administrative Fellows program ◦ Held 3rd annual symposium – 102 students

Developed our own online abstract submission and repository system Developed our own iPAD app for judging scoring

◦ Held summer symposium – 119 students

4th year (2013-14) ◦ Partnered with Student Affairs – now funding 40 UG

researchers in the AY and 12 for next summer ◦ Was assigned 2 Faculty Fellows from Provost program ◦ Received NOA for NIH BUILD planning grant ◦ Colleges of Liberal Arts, Education and Business now on

board ◦ Requested a second work-study assistant (granted) ◦ Submitted another proposal (HHMI) ◦ Continue to manage externally funded programs ◦ Received NOA for BUILD ◦ Hiring half time/temporary project specialist for BUILD ◦ …And it’s only October!!!

Δ # of students participating in research activities

Δ # students presenting at local and regional conferences

Δ retention and graduation rates

Δ student learning

Δ enrollment of students in graduate & professional programs

Δ # of presentations & publication with UG co-authors

CoS and CoE Combined cohort first time freshman 2004, 2005, 2006

Research Participation 6-year Graduation Graduation in

Original College

N 1223 74% 330 27% 154 13%

Y 431 26% 343 80% 316 73%

Total 1654

Correlation between UGR participation in STEM, time to graduation and retention at UTEP

COURI