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Student Feedback: "I liked working closely with my professor and seeing what it was like to do research first hand." "Our project is a very important one. It's going to make a difference in the world, and I was part of it." |
Students can provide research support to faculty in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, conducting literature reviews, analyzing and categorizing information, analyzing statistical data, assisting in running laboratory experiments, developing computer programs, and drafting written analysis.
Students may participate in faculty research in three different time allotments. For one unit of academic credit or hourly compensation, a student typically works five hours per week. For four units of academic credit or hourly compensation, a student works 12-15 hours per week. And for co-op credit and hourly compensation a student works 35 hours per week.
Financial compensation may come from work-study funding for part or full-time positions, grant funding for any position, or Faculty Undergraduate Research Initiative (FURI) Fellowships for part time positions.
FURI Student Fellows receive $750 for their research assistance during a semester for a research commitment of five or more hours per week. Students are required to attend all three of the FURI colloquia held during the semester. Students are also required to present at the second or third colloquia (e.g. journal, paper, poster presentation, etc.).
FURI Colloquia
All colloquia are held in 162 Meserve Hall. The first colloquium
is from 3-4pm, while the last two are from 3-4:30pm.
Fall 2008: September 25, November 6, and November
27
Spring 2009: January 29, March 19, and April 2
Presentations: FURI Faculty/Student teams are required to present at either the second or third colloquium. These presentations are short (generally eight to ten minutes), aimed at a general audience (non-discipline specific), focus on the process of the research rather than the results, and incorporate some sort of visual aid, ranging from PowerPoint presentations to handouts.
Also, students are encouraged to exhibit at the Experiential Education Expo (E3) and other events if possible as well as provide their files, photos, and other documents to be included on the CEA web site.
Students looking for undergraduate research opportunities, of any type, should take the following steps:
1) Review the research
opportunities throughout the College of
Arts & Sciences.
2) Check with individual professors in your
areas of interest via email or in person to
find out who might need assistance. Not all
opportunities are listed on this web site.
3) Check departmental
web sites. Many of these web sites have
information on research being pursued by their
faculty.
Have questions not answered here?
Write or call Justin Repici:
P: (617) 373-8385
Email: j.repici@neu.edu
OR
Write to our FURI Student Mentors:
Bill Durkin '07, Political Science - durkin.w
at gmail dot com
"Contemporary Medical Fiction and the Health Policy Process"
- FURI fellow fall 2006 with Professor David Rochefort.
Casey Hartman '10, Architecture - hartman.c
at neu dot edu
""Do They Think They're Learning What We Think They're Learning?"
- FURI fellow fall 2006 with Professor Sarah Roszler.
FURI Student Mentors are students who have participated in faculty undergraduate research and they will be happy to talk with you.
Thank you to all faculty who have hired undergraduates to assist with research.
