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Factors and mediators impacting the number of undergraduate research mentees at a research-intensive Hispanic-serving institution

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  • Angelica Monarrez
  • Lourdes Echegoyen
  • Danielle Morales
  • Maria Aleida Ramirez
  • Diego Seira
  • Amy Wagler

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Engaging in undergraduate research experiences is known to have broad and positive impacts on college students. Despite the benefits, achieving faculty buy-in and support can be challenging even when faculty have strong research funding. In order to understand how to better support undergraduate research programs, we applied quantitative models to explore how the impact of research funding is mediated by faculty beliefs about undergraduate research mentoring in STEM disciplines. The results indicate that faculty characteristics and beliefs about the benefits and barriers of mentoring undergraduate students in research impact the number of students mentored even when accounting for research funding levels of the individual faculty. Practical recommendations are presented based on the models from this research project in order to provide insight into how centers or units on a campus may work with faculty to support and encourage mentoring of undergraduates in research in the biomedical sciences.

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  • Angelica Monarrez & Lourdes Echegoyen & Danielle Morales & Maria Aleida Ramirez & Diego Seira & Amy Wagler, 2024. "Factors and mediators impacting the number of undergraduate research mentees at a research-intensive Hispanic-serving institution," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(10), pages 1-18, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0289386
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289386
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