Information for Faculty

Student Research Partners (SRPs), in close collaboration with Carleton faculty, define and investigate an original research question.  Often these questions are pertinent to the faculty member’s research program but they could arise from the student’s interests. SRPs can generally expect to present their research at a conference or other venue suitable to the discipline, such as Carleton’s Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium, and in some cases to be a co-author on a future publication.  Faculty mentor SRPs to increase their capacity to conduct independent research.

Student Research Assistants (SRAs) assist faculty with a variety of routine research tasks, but they are not generally involved in defining or investigating the underlying research question.  SRAs are not expected to gain an increased capacity to conduct independent research or to make the sort of intellectual or creative contribution to the project that would lead them to be a co-author on a publication or to present their findings at a conference or at Carleton’s Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium.