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2024-2025 Undergraduate Research Opportunities: Applications Now Open!

September 26 All day

As we prepare for another exciting year of Undergraduate Research, we certainly would like to thank all of our colleagues who have been research mentors for our students, and we would certainly like to encourage colleagues who have not engaged in undergraduate research mentoring at the college to please consider participating in this rich, gratifying experience. The undergraduate research application period is now open; please, therefore, find below a critical message from our Undergraduate Research Team. Please direct any questions you may have to undergraduateresearch@citytech.cuny.edu. The team will respond quickly to your queries. 

Please find below how you can become a faculty mentor to undergraduate student-researchers at City Tech. The City Tech Undergraduate Research initiative offers several programs that allow students to get paid for completing a research project with a faculty mentor, and we are always looking for more mentors to participate (and potentially get paid through these programs!). Below are the outlines of our programs that currently have open applications, along with the steps that students can take to participate in the programs: 

ESP (Emerging Scholars Program)

  • One semester commitment (students can re-join each semester)
  • Open to any Major (must be City Tech full time/part time student)
  • Open to students at all academic levels (Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors)
  • $500 for full time students, $250 for part time payment upon full completion of the program
  • Freshman Students can receive up to $800 (additional $300)
  • Faculty mentors are eligible to receive $500 for any freshman students they mentor.

CRSP (CUNY Research Scholars Program)

  • One Year commitment (including full-time work for Summer 2025), 400 hours of work over the course of the year
  • Freshmen and Sophomores full-time students are eligible (must have less than 50 credits at time of application)
  • $5000 payment over the course of the year
  • Open to all Majors
  • Applicant must be a U.S. Citizen/Permanent Resident
  • Faculty Mentors receive $1000 payment per mentored student in June 2025

CIRE (CUNY Immersive Research Experience)

  • One Year commitment (including full time work for Summer 2025), 400 hours of work over the course of the year
  • Must be full-time student in a STEM Major
  • Rising Juniors and Seniors eligible (Bachelors students with 60+ credits at time of application)
  • $6000 payment over the course of the year
  • Applicant must be a U.S. Citizen/Permanent Resident
  • Faculty Mentors receive $1000 payment per mentored student in June 2025

Here are the steps that we ask Faculty Mentors to take to apply and participate in the programs: 

Step 1: Students find a Professor to be a Faculty Mentor (or you find students to mentor):

Step 2: Apply

  • Students will fill out part 1 of the application by themselves.
  • Students will fill out part 2 of the application to the program with their faculty mentor.

Step 3: Research

  • Once students are accepted to their respective program, with your mentorship they complete a research project over the course of the semester (the number of hours and when they work each week is determined by you and the student). This can be an individual or group project, and it can be an ongoing project you already have or something new that they propose.
  • Depending on the program that they apply to, the commitment for the research project is either one semester (ESP) or one year  (CRSP, CIRE). At the end of each semester, students are expected to submit an abstract and a poster, as well as attend a research symposium to present their work. We ask mentors to help review the posters and abstracts prior to student submission.

The application deadline (Part I and II) is Thursday, September 26, 2024.

Part 2 for all of the applications are attached to this email, please feel free to share these with your students! Here is our website: https://www.citytech.cuny.edu/research/, and please reach out to undergraduateresearch@citytech.cuny.edu with any questions.

Applications