ADVISING
We work with students across all fields of study from traditional lab work to creative arts projects. It's never too early to start talking your ideas and interests through with us.
If you are interested in getting finding faculty to connect with, the best first step is to attend one of our Finding a Research Mentor workshops. Our individual meeting will be much more productive if you attend one of these workshops first. Find the schedule and RSVP for a workshop.
We don’t expect you to know how to get started in research, so we are here to help answer questions and support your journey. The goals of the Office of Undergraduate Research are two fold. First, if you are interested in getting started in research, we offer workshops and individual advising designed to help connect you with faculty. Second, if you want to apply to one of our many funding programs, we can help explain how programs work and help you prepare and revise application materials.
We believe that all students are capable of engaging in research whenever you are ready to start, and we help you learn to develop your own independent projects (which is actually a completely do-able goal!). We fund across all disciplines, including the creative arts and journalism! We are an advising-centric office where you can build a long-term relationship with your advisor.
We do not provide specific grant appointments for programs not run by OUR, such as for people applying to WCAS grants.
You can make an advising appointment with any of our advisors on ConnectNU!
Diamond Jones - Advisor & Education Program Manager
Diamond's background is in the humanities and languages! She proudly identifies as First-Generation, Low-Income (FGLI) and enjoys helping students navigate the resources available to them. She studied Japanese Language & Culture and participated in Quest+ and Arch Scholars communities. She is also a fellow of MMUF (Mellon Mays), a program aimed at increasing representation of diverse faculty in higher education. Her interests include: video games, the horror genre, Japanese media, fandom/parasocial relationships studies, and internet privacy.
Diamond can serve as an advisor across all types/reasons for appointments (with the exception of the Circumnavigator Grant). She is a point person for the following programs: Undergraduate Language Grant, the Peer Mentor Program, the Winter Bootcamps, and the Emerging Scholars Program.
Megan Wood - Advisor & Associate Director
Megan’s background is in the natural sciences. She started doing undergraduate research as a chemistry major, fell in love with research, and ended up pursuing a PhD in the Life Sciences on the Feinberg medical campus of Northwestern. Her areas of interest include: all things STEM, especially helping students figure out how to make the really complex science jargon more accessible for non-experts. She also loves helping students figure out how to maximize their undergraduate research experience, such as how to enroll in research for credit to count towards upper level elective credit, or how to work towards conference presentations so they can share their research.
Megan can serve as an advisor across all types/reasons for appointments (with the exception of the Circumnavigator Grant). She is a point person for the following programs: Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, Undergraduate Language Grant, the Emerging Scholars Program, Academic Year URGs, and Summer URGs.
Ace Chisholm - Advisor & Outreach Coordinator
Ace is a recent graduate from NU, having obtained her B.A. in Classics and Linguistics. As an undergraduate, she was involved in research that included creating a graphic novel based on Latin poetry, transcribing and analyzing early English texts for EarlyPrint, parsing out the syntactical structure of the Belfast English "for to" phrase, and determining the scope of the genius loci Roman deity. She is interested in the spatiality of religion, material culture, digital humanities, death studies, and syntax.
Ace can serve as an advisor across all types/reasons for appointments (with the exception of the Circumnavigator Grant and the Undergraduate Language Grant). She is a point person for the following programs: General Information/Getting Started, Finding a Lab, Academic Year URGs, and Summer URGs.
Peter Civetta - Advisor & Director
Peter’s background is in the humanities and performing arts. He worked as a professional actor for nearly ten years before returning to graduate school in Theater Studies. His areas of interest include: the performance of belief in the world, preaching across faith traditions, the intersection of comedy and culture, politics and elections, Shakespeare, and children’s theater.
Peter can serve as an advisor across all types/reasons for appointments. He is a point person for the following programs: Academic Year URGs, Summer URGs, the Emerging Scholars Program, the Circumnavigator Travel-Study Grant, and Conference Travel Grants.