All tenure-line and research-track faculty who are currently employed at the College (including the professional schools) and eligible to serve as Principal Investigators may supervise undergraduates in research. Research-track faculty include research assistant professors, research associate professors, and research professors (but not Research Scientists).
- Faculty with appointment types other than tenure line or research track may be eligible to supervise undergraduates in some undergraduate research programs with approval from the relevant department or program chair.
- Geisel School of Medicine faculty with the titles of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor may supervise undergraduates in research.
- Faculty whose primary employment is elsewhere but have adjunct or courtesy appointments at Dartmouth are not eligible.
- Emeritus faculty are eligible only if they have a current appointment as research-track faculty.
IMPORTANT NOTES
- Presidential Scholars program: this program is intended to prepare students for honors thesis research so faculty mentors must be eligible to be primary advisors for student honors theses in their academic department or program. In most cases, this includes only faculty with the following appointment types: tenure-line, research-track or lecturer/senior lecturer.
- Postdoctoral Fellows: those with multi-year appointments at the College (e.g. Neukom Fellows) should email undergraduate research to determine potential eligibility to mentor undergraduates in research. Other postdoctoral fellows may supervise undergraduate researchers but are not eligible to be the primary mentor. The primary mentor should be the tenure-line faculty member who is mentoring and/or collaborating with the post-doctoral fellow. When applying for undergraduate research programs, the student would choose the faculty member as primary mentor, and that primary mentor is responsible for overseeing the research experience and for completing any endorsements, recommendations and evaluations that are required for the program.
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ON-CAMPUS RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS
- Part-time research programs (Dartmouth ERAS, URAD, Presidential Scholars): students must be on campus, and it is expected that faculty mentors also be on campus during the term(s) of the research.
- If there is a compelling reason to waive the on-campus requirement for faculty, this request must be made in advance and there must be an on-campus supervisor who is involved in the project and agrees to work directly with the student (e.g. graduate student, post-doctoral fellow).
- Leave term grants: students may engage in the research on or off campus but there must be a rationale for the location of the research. The on-campus requirement for faculty is based on the location of the student's research and the rationale for that location.
- Student off campus: there is no on-campus requirement for faculty, but there must be a clear plan for regular communication and mentoring.
- Student on campus: in most cases, the rationale for the student to be on campus during leave term research is to be able to work with their faculty mentor in person. In that case, faculty mentors must be on campus during the term of the research.