Undergraduate Research and Creative Collaborations

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.

  1. Complete the 2024-2025 URCC Peer Research Mentoring Group Interest Form to join a group in Fall 2024.
  2. Learn more about Peer Research mentoring in our URCC Peer Research Mentoring video.

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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2024-2025 Undergraduate Peer Research Mentors

Ava Towle
Ava Towle
Undergraduate Peer Research Mentor

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.

Maya Katz
Maya Katz
Undergraduate Peer Research Mentor

Major: Neuroscience 

Maya is from New Jersey and a junior majoring in Neuroscience and Biology. She currently works in the Sengupta Lab, where she is studying olfactory behavior in C. elegans. 

Annetta Venford
Annetta Venford
Undergraduate Peer Research Mentor

Major: Neuroscience and Health: Science, Society, and Policy (HSSP), English

Annetta is currently an undergraduate junior 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.

Check back here for information about peer research mentoring in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025!