&lt;span style="line-height:20.7999992370605px"&gt;The chemistry department at Wheeling Jesuit University has developed a research model that contributes to a positive research environment and provides multiple benefits to both undergraduate students and new faculty. All faculty members have at least one project that involves the same class of molecules. The specific project depends on the specialty of the faculty member (organic, inorganic, physical, and analytical). However, all of the projects become interrelated. All research students and faculty participate in weekly research meetings where the student take turns reporting on their rec&lt;/span&gt;work. Benefits to students include; each student has greater contact with all faculty members, students can discuss their research with each other more readily because of the commonality, students can rotate through the faculty disciplines. Benefits to new faculty include, but are not limited to; easier initiation of projects, inclusion in grants and publications of senior faculty, potential for co-mentoring of students. This model provides very natural and non-intrusive mentoring of new faculty in their role as mentors (expectations, scope, and opportunities). The dialog during research meetings leads to generation of ideas for new research projects as faculty and students talk about on-going experiments.

Enhancing research for students and new faculty at undergraduate institutions

249th National Meeting (2015)

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