Acknowledgements

This Handbook was developed by the multi-disciplinary Undergraduate Research Committee (URC) at New York City College of Technology (City Tech) of The City University of New York (CUNY). The URC provides unique opportunities for students to participate in authentic research experiences with trained faculty mentors. Committee members themselves are trained mentors who are actively engaged in interdisciplinary and disciplinary research that spans the fields of anthropology, architecture, astronomy, biology, chemistry, communication design, engineering, health sciences, history, literature, management, mathematics, philosophy, physics, psychology, robotics, sociology, and theater.

We express special thanks to Professors Reginald Blake, Janet Liou-Mark, and Selwyn Williams for their vision, dedication, and leadership in initiating the first edition of this Handbook.  First and second edition contributors are listed on the following page.

The second edition of this text was edited (in alphabetical order) by Professors Nadia Benakli, Monica Berger, Aida Egues, Hamidreza Norouzi, Kate Poirier, and Diana Samaroo. Special thanks to Savonne Andrews for designing the cover and Annie Wang for final copyedits.

We especially wish to acknowledge the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching for its mentoring guide, Entering Mentoring: A Seminar to Train a New Generation of Scientists. That mentoring guide provided a model for the URC to explore faculty mentoring and the impetus for this Handbook’s development.