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Board 256: Development And Evolution Of Workshops To Support Online Undergraduate Research, Dr. Robert Deters, Dr. Brent Terwilliger, Emily Faulconer, Dr. Kelly A. George

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Under a National Science Foundation (NSF) Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) grant, the Research Scholars Program was developed at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University — Worldwide. The objective of the Research Scholars Program is to promote undergraduate research for the online students at the Worldwide campus and to formalize the process in which the students can participate in research. A significant aspect of the project was to create a support network for the students that incorporated existing services provided by the university and established new services to aid students throughout their mentored research experience. One of the new services was the development …