Category Archives: Faculty

Your primary role as an SROP Faculty is to mentor an SROP Student on an independent research project. This will involve you or another member of your lab helping the student identify next steps and plan research tasks for the week. For the most part, we will leave faculty mentors to do their own thing.Continue reading “What will faculty members be asked to do?”

The Faculty Mentorship Statement asks you to describe two main things: Your mentorship philosophy Why you want to be involved in the SROP In many cases, the SROP will be students’ first mentorship experience with a faculty member. These mentorship statements will help students get a sense of fit with each advisor. Furthermore, we believeContinue reading “Detailed instructions for the Faculty Mentorship Statement”

The most important component of the SROP is an independent research project. The student is expected to work on the project 15 hours/week. This time will be built into the SROP schedule. Given this time frame, we ask faculty to identify a small, stand-alone project that could feasibly be completed within the SROP. We thenContinue reading “Detailed instructions for the Faculty Research Project Description”