URCC Peer Research Mentors
What is a peer research mentoring group?
A peer research mentoring group is of a small group of undergraduates who want to get involved in research or are already involved. Each group is facilitated by experienced undergraduate peer research mentors. Check back here in Fall 2025 for more information.
What are the areas that I can get help with?
- Identify your research interests
- Learn to approach potential mentors about research opportunities
- Start strong in your research or creative project
- Secure funding or academic credit for your research, and more!
What research support is provided?
- Regular group meetings with your mentors and other undergraduates interested in research
- Weekly drop-in advising hour with your mentors to ask questions
- Workshops and interactive discussions on undergraduate research opportunities, skills, funding, and strategies
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Peer Research Mentors
Major: Biology, Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP)
Ava (class of '26) is double majoring in Biology and Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP). She is a member of the Garrity lab, where she studies how fruit flies and mosquitoes detect and respond to changes in temperature and other sensory stimuli.
Major: Neuroscience and Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP), English
Annetta is currently an undergraduate senior pursuing neuroscience, with minors in English and HSSP. She is interested in memory and early development, and specifically how those areas relate to depression and emotional regulation, and is currently working as an undergraduate research assistant in the CoPE Lab.
Major: Psychology and Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP)
Ella (class of '26) has interests in developmental psychology and behavioral health. She currently works as an undergraduate research assistant in the Child and Adolescent Research on Development (CARD) Lab at Brandeis, the Mood and Behavior Lab at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and assists on harm reduction research at the Institute for Behavioral Health at the Heller School.