Undergraduate Research Partnerships

Academic-Industrial Undergraduate Institutions initiative, CUR, 24 Academic-Industrial Undergraduate Research Partnerships, 16-27 competitive fellowships, 26-27 student experience, 25 Academic freedom, EMRA program, 93 Academic research benefit to industry, 38 commercial relevance, 39>40 expenditures, 89/ links to marketplace, 36... 

Nagda, B. A., S. R. Gregerman, J. Jonides, W. von Hippel, and J. S. Lerner (1998) Undergraduate student-faculty research partnerships affect student retention. Review of Higher Education 22(1), 55-72. 

In this program 20 students from predominantly undergraduate institutions were selected to receive 2500 fellowships to conduct research full time, normally during the summer months, with their faculty mentor. For the summer preceding their entrance into graduate school, industrial sponsors offer their awardees the opportunity to work in their corporate research laboratories. These Research Partnerships link student and faculty member with the fellowship sponsor to provide them with an association for mutual identification not otherwise possible. Sponsors in 1990 were American Cyanamid Company (Agricultural Research Division), Eli Lilly and Company, Hewlett-Packard Company, the Merck Company Foundation, Norwich ton Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Pfizer Central Research, Rohm and Haas Company, and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals. 

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