The Office of Undergraduate Peer Research Mentor Programs connects students both entering and continuing in research with a community of their peers and a mentor. There are two kinds of peer mentors that are available to support you:

Workshop Peer Mentors: The Science Research Workshop, the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Research Workshop, and the Finding a Lab Support Group all have peer mentors who help students to find research opportunities, support students entering research to find or create research opportunities. If you’re interested in learning more about workshop peer mentors, click here.

Profiles for our 2023 Workshop Peer Mentors are available here.

Research Peer Mentors: These peer mentors play an important role to help develop a positive and engaged community of student researchers at Northwestern, and help students new to undergraduate research navigate the process, particularly for the cohort of Summer URG winners. If you’re interested in learning more about research peer mentors, click here.

DEADLINE

By invitation only; students can apply through a link. If you are interested in serving as a peer mentor (priority consideration given to students who have received an independent research grant), please let us know by emailing ureducation@northwestern.edu

ELIGIBILITY:

The OUR funds all kinds of research, so we need Peer Research Mentors with all kinds of experience! Students from the Natural Sciences, Engineering, Social Sciences, Arts, Humanities, and Design; with experience in labs, archives, creative projects, interviews, quantitative and qualitative methods, and more; based abroad, in Evanston, elsewhere in the US, or online. Eligible students will be sent an email inviting them to apply. If you have not received an invitation to apply but believe you are eligible, please contact ureducation@northwestern.edu