Although beneficial to the lab overall, mentoring undergraduates requires investment in education and technical training. Students in these programmes are a valuable resource for research labs and vice versa.
Nearly every tier 1 research university in the United States has an undergraduate research programme, and uptake exceeds 90% at some institutions, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In the past decade, I’ve mentored 18 undergraduates in my laboratory, with the majority of them going on to pursue graduate degrees in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) and co-authoring papers. Undergraduate research programmes can be a valuable resource for labs, and vice versa.
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