Mentoring 本科研究ers in the Era of COVID-19

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Continuing to mentor undergraduate researchers during the current pandemic may not be a difficult decision for faculty in some disciplines. In other disciplines, particularly those that rely heavily on face-to-face interactions (e.g. social sciences, lab sciences), taking on an undergraduate student as yet another lab member, or devising a project that does not require close contacts with other people may be next to impossible.

If you are still wondering why you should consider mentoring undergraduate researchers or are not sure how to help guide undergraduate students through their research endeavors, 这是一个在线的 Mentoring 本科研究 Handbook that was developed by faculty at Georgia College and State University. 虽然有点 specific for faculty in liberal arts, the main points made in the book apply to all 我们的.

 

Additional Mentoring Resources

• Salient Practices of 本科研究 Mentors
• Self-paced Online Mentor Training
• Mentoring 本科研究 Virtually; from UT Knoxville
• Mentoring Students Virtually; from Cornell University

 

Council on 本科研究 (CUR) Resources for Virtual Mentoring

• Virtual 本科研究 in Action -Highlights and How-Tos; recorded webinar in which CUR members discuss their experience in guiding undergraduate 研究几乎.
• CUR Covid-19 Forum: Virtual Mentoring; recorded discussion of questions related to virtual mentoring such as communication, collaboration, equity and inclusion, constraints, etc.

 

CUR Resources for Virtual 研究 Programs and Conferences

• CUR Covid-19 Forum: Virtual Conferences; recorded discussion of virtual conferences (e.g. logistics of organizing; ways to create high-quality value for students; strategies to enhance opportunities for inclusion and equity; summer research programs).
• CUR COVID-19 Forum: Summer Programming and Student 就业; recorded discussion of reasons for supporting, advocating,/or maintaining a summer research program; types of possible structures (face-to-face, hybrid, virtual) and what these would look like; potential timelines; planning issues; ways to create and sustain community and prevent student and faculty burnout in a virtual program.
• CUR Covid-19 Forum: Virtual 研究, Creative, & 学术-第1部分
• CUR Covid-19 Forum: Virtual 研究, Creative, & 学术-第2部分; recorded discussion (in two parts) of conditions for continuing virtual undergraduate research; when to stop, suspend or delay; how to help students reach out to faculty; how to promote and manage online research collaborations with students; how to adjust projects to be productive in a virtual environment; how to establish realistic timelines; if face-to-face is allowed and required, how to ensure safe protocols.

 

Virtual 研究 Projects, Initiatives, Open Datasets, Resources

To identify or devise undergraduate research projects that are compatible with COVID-19 safety measures and minimize face-to-face contact, the following list contains virtual research projects/initiatives in which Southern Miss undergraduate students might be able to participate and datasets to which they have access. 许多项目将 need to be adapted and/or expanded to be suitable for upper-level college student and/or Honors thesis research. 请电子邮件 Sabine.HeinhorstFREEMississippi if you have additional suggestions that can be added to the list.

 

艺术

• Zooniverse Projects in the 艺术
• Mounting and Curating a Digital Exhibition

 

人文学科

• Digital 人文学科 Projects at Southern Miss
• Zooniverse History Projects
• Zooniverse Language Projects
• Zooniverse Literature Projects
• Teaching Undergraduates with Archives 开放存取书
• CUR Remote 本科研究 Resources; links to a variety of datasets, Digital 人文学科 projects, Oral History projects, transcription projects, 案例研究

 

社会科学

• Zooniverse Social Science Projects
• Evaluating Science in the 新闻
• Federal Reserve Economic Data
• National Health and Aging Trends Study Datasets; requires login to access public use data files
• 本地个案研究; 案例研究 of relevance to Native Americans; listed alphabetically, by theme, 纪律,部落
• 案例研究; collection of University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy and Governance; subjects range from advocacy and lobbying to urban planning; requires registration as a member to search cases and see case abstracts; requires $100 annual 订阅 to access case details and use for teaching purposes

 

业务

• Framing the 本科研究 Experience: Discovery Involvement in Retailing Undergraduate Education article
• 研究 Projects with Federal Reserve Economic Data book; downloadable as EPUB 版本
• Federal Reserve Economic Data
• S. 政府数据集

 

Nursing and Public Health

• Kent State University Public Health and Nursing Datasets and Resources
• Public Health-related 政府数据集 and Resources
• Centers for Disease Control Public Health Image Library

 

阀杆

• Zooniverse Biology Projects
• Zooniverse Climate Projects
• Zooniverse Medicine-related Projects
• Zooniverse Nature Projects
• Zooniverse Physics Projects
• Zooniverse Astronomy Projects
• Scistarter Citizen Science Projects
• iNaturalist项目
• Datanuggest项目; need to be adapted to college level
• Citizen Science Projects at North Carolina State University
• Microbial Gene/Genome Annotation Platform for Undergraduates: GENI-ACT
• Biomedical Citizen Science Hub
• Computational and Systems Biology Challenges
• StarGeo RNA Expression Data Analysis
• Various Bioinformatics Projects
• Projects Related to Adaptation of Debian Operating System
• Open Bioinformatic Foundation Projects
• The Paleobiology Database ，参见 Fossilworks
• Using Virtual Landscapes for Remote Teaching Webinar
• Using GigaPan for Remote Teaching Webinar
• Using Google Earth for Remote Teaching Webinar
• Examples of Remote Instrumentation Use; examples of undergraduate research enabled by remote access to electron microscopes; from University of South Florida
• Cell Science Datasets, Analysis Tools and Information about Human Cells from The Allen Institute for Cell Science 研究
• Molecular Biology 案例研究; manuals include Build Your Own Case Study instructions
• Environmental Science Datasets; from Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE)
• S. Geological Survey Datasets and citizen science projects for various 阀杆 disciplines
• National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Datasets
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey SciServer Astronomy 研究 Projects
• Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners Resources; datasets, simulations, 案例研究
• Gendered Innovations in Health & Medicine, Engineering, Environment; Stanford University 案例研究 to illustrate how sex and gender analysis leads 创新
• Queensland University of Technology Library datasets and repositories;
• Nasa Space Science Data Archive; space science mission data archive
• S. Department of Energy Data Explorer; DOE projects, collections, datasets
• DataOne数据目录; NSF-funded multi-organization collaboration; very large number of 阀杆 datasets
• EPA Toxic Release Inventory Program Data
• Open Access Directory List of Repositories and Databases; ordered alphabetically by 阀杆 discipline
• Tiny Earth Digital Microbiology Labs, Activities and Resources; from University of Wisconsin; activities related to antibiotic production, novel antibiotic discovery in soil through studentsourcing

 

Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary

• The Wild Sourdough Project; see also: 酵母播客, The Great Sourdough Mystery, The Sourdough Microbiome
• Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, Online Collections
• Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic
• European Union List of Datascience Projects; several U.S. projects are listed that can be performed at home; most projects are suitable for multiple disciplines
• S. Government Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing Projects
• CUR Remote 本科研究 Resources; links to a variety of datasets, Digital 人文学科, Oral History, transcription projects, 案例研究
• S. Census Bureau Datasets
• National Health and Aging Trends Study Datasets; requires login to access public use data files
• S. 政府数据集
• Open Science Framework Datasets, materials and collaboration opportunities
• National Center for 案例研究; cases in broad range of 阀杆 areas, communication science, linguistics, etc.; teaching notes and answer keys are password-protected and require account registration and 订阅
• Gendered Innovations in Health & Medicine, Engineering, Environment; Stanford University 案例研究 to illustrate how sex and gender analysis leads 创新
• United Nations Datasets
• University of Bath Datasets; interdisciplinary and discipline-specific search possibilities; datasets range from code-based data to social sciences data and 阀杆 data
• 案例研究; collection of University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy and Governance; subjects range from advocacy and lobbying to urban planning; requires registration as a member to search cases and see case abstracts; requires $100 annual 订阅 to access case details and use for teaching purposes