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Undergraduate Research Official University Policies

Policy 1:

Faculty and Students Working Together on Undergraduate Research Must Register Through ScholarBridge

All Undergraduate Students engaged in Faculty Research must create a ScholarBridge Profile and match on that site with their faculty mentor.

Students should click here to register: http://www.scholarbridge.com/

Policy 2: High School students who are to be working on Campus or in any USA Affiliated Facility must Register through the AREP portal.

Click here to register as an AREP participant.

Faculty in all units of the University of South Alabama are encouraged to mentor well-qualified high school students.

  • Students who wish to work with faculty in the University of South Alabama System must register with the Office of Undergraduate Research.
  • Well-qualified here designates that, in the judgment of the faculty, the student shows adequate academic preparation and evidence of aptitude in the faculty member’s area of study.
  • These students will enroll in the Advanced Research Experiences Program (AREP).
    • This program will allow students to complete a process of a special, limited application to the University of South Alabama that will grant them access to University of South Alabama JagMail and a student ID card.
    • These students will then be able to register with ScholarBridge, the online research experience matching system, to search for and be matched with a mentor.
    • Links to these systems and portals are made available at the web site of the office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) at www.southalabama.edu/programs/our.
    • Once a faculty member and high school student have been officially matched, the high school student must enroll in a 0 credit hours, no-cost course with the faculty person as the instructor of record.
    • The student must enroll in this special course for any academic term in which they remain engaged in mentored research.
    • This shall allow the faculty member to record their activities through the Official USA Banner system, and for the student to have these experiences recorded in an official transcript.