Office of Undergraduate Research
SURE

Brochure

Brochure

SURE Brochure Outside Page: First Column: About the Program, SURE is a summer research experience for undergraduates where partnering community colleges send students to participate in high-level faculty-mentored research projects over an eight-week program. Students who participate in SURE have the opportunity to present their culminating research projects at our annual Cal Poly Pomona Creative Activities & Research Symposium (CPP CARS). Second column: Office information: Office of Undergraduate Research, Director: Dr. Winny Dong, Coordinator: Ever Barraza, Location: Building 1, Room 110, Phone number: 909-869-5296, E-mail: our-cpp@cpp.edu

SURE Brochure Inside page: First Column: Faculty-Mentored Research. CPP faculty participating in the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience will: establish a mentoring relationship with the students accepted into their lab, design an 8-week research project that will engage students in the following research activities: literature review, experiment design, data collection, data analysis, and research presentation; be available to students to provide guidance and feedback on their work and engage students in conversation about the project to help them strengthen their analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as their understanding of the discipline, guide in the development of and approvve a student-made research poster and research report paper for the annual CPP CARS held mid-August, Participate in weekly faculty-student meetings and occasional student cohort-building activities. Second column: Collage of Students participating in various research activities, ranging from lab to agricultural work. Third Column: Title: Community College Partnership. Body: The Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) will recruit and identify faculty mentors with each faculty mentor overseeing two or three student researchers. Students are grouped by major and research interests. These groups work together over the duration of the project with a faculty mentor orienting student in lab safety training, writing, and creating professional research posters. The program will provide cohort bonding experiences and a research seminar series. The SURE program works with community colleges that have funding for their students. The student stipend varies by institution. Community colleges will also provide research supply support for their students' faculty mentors. The cost does not include housing, parking, or food.