Dear HMC faculty,
We are planning on running a short round on the "Undergraduate Research Opportunities" site for positions available this fall. If you are looking to recruit students for your research, scholarship, or creative projects this term (either for academic credit or for pay) you will find information at the bottom of this email about the current round. But first we’d like to provide a quick update about the site.
As a reminder, we created the site to make it easier for students to locate and apply for research opportunities. For each of these past 3 years, over 25% of HMC students applied to do summer research on campus through the site. Most students who applied through the site submitted 1-3 applications per round. For summer hiring, there have been two chances to advertise positions: a Nov/Dec round and a Jan/Feb round. Interestingly, the Jan/Feb round in the Spring has about 3x as many applicants per project as the Nov/Dec round in the Fall, so if you’re able to wait to do your summer hiring until Spring, you might get a higher response rate.
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Nov/ Dec 2020 |
Jan/ |
Nov/ |
Jan/ |
Nov/ |
Jan/ |
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# unique students who applied |
107 |
254 |
90 |
244 |
84 |
237 |
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total applications |
204 |
741 |
201 |
680 |
168 |
686 |
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total mentors |
13 |
26 |
28 |
26 |
17 |
21 |
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total projects |
17 |
33 |
41 |
36 |
30 |
28 |
As always, we'd be happy to hear any constructive feedback, feature suggestions, or about your experience using the site. Please reach out by email so we can follow up with you directly. Thanks for your participation in the site and for helping to provide a centralized place where our students can easily find research opportunities!
Timeline for the Aug/Sept 2023 Call for Applications:
Fri. Aug. 25 - last day to add projects / opening to student applications
Fri. Sep. 1 - applications close / review starts
Wed. Sep. 6 - review ends / offers are made
The steps to posting a project are:
1. Registration. [If this is your first time posting projects] Please log in to https://uro.hmc.edu using your HMC credentials. Then click on your name and edit your profile. By default all users are registered as students, so be sure to click the button that says “Not a Student? Change this.”
2. Mentor Approval. After you have registered, you will receive an email to approve your role as a mentor, at which time you will be able to access all site features, including posting projects. Thank you for your patience while mentors are approved.
3. Post Projects. Edit/create your project descriptions on the uro.hmc.edu site by Friday, August 25 at 11:59pm PT. If you change your mind about using the site, you can always remove your project from the site. For full instructions, see the FAQ (https://uro.hmc.edu/faq#how-
Have a great end of your summer,
Mark & Kathy