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2020 Summer Research Resources

Student Resources

Research and Presentation Guides

Conducting Research
- "Five Essential Skills for Every Undergraduate Researcher"
- Tools for Digital Humanities
Writing An Abstract
Creating a Poster
- Making an Exciting Poster in the Arts and Humanities
- How to Create a Better Research Poster in Less Time (video)
- Designing Conference Posters (with templates)
- Tools to Create a Poster
Creating a Digital Presentation
- Audacity (for audio recordings)
- Recording a Presentation (Zoom)
- Recording a PowerPoint and Video in Zoom (video tutorial)
- Recording a Slideshow with Narration in PowerPoint
Creating Websites
- Google Sites Guide
Creating Exhibits
- Omeka 101
Digital Storytelling
- Knight Lab Tools
- Video Editing, Moodboard and Storyboard Tools
Presenting Research

Presenting and Publishing Opportunities

Conference Opportunities for Undergraduates
Undergraduate Student Journals: All Disciplines

Undergraduate Student Journals: Specific Disciplines
- Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas*
- Digital America (art, design, digital culture, critical essays)*
- Digital Literature Review
- Grand Valley Journal of History*
- High Noon (literature)
- History Matters: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research
- Journal of Integrated Social Sciences
- Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations and Identity (JIRIRI)*
- LURe (Literary Undergraduate Research in English)*
- New Errands: The Undergraduate Journal of American Studies*
- The Popular Culture Studies Journal*
- Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
- UC Berkeley Comparative Literature Undergraduate Journal
- The Expositor (humanities research)
- The Vanderbilt Historical Review

*indicates submissions are acccepted year-around (no deadline)

Other Resources

Travel Awards
- CURAH Travel Awards
Employment
- Talking to Employers about your Undergraduate Research Experiences

Faculty Resources

General
- Council on Undergraduate Research Faculty Resources
- Scholarship on Undergraduate Research Mentoring (Elon University)
- Undergraduate Research in English Studies edited by Laurie Grobman and Joyce Kinkead
- "Resources for Assessing Undergraduate Research in the Arts and Humanities" by Sara Orel
- Ten Salient Practices of Undergraduate Research Mentors: A Review of the Literature by Jenny Shanahan
- Building Community in Online Classes through Undergradaute Research by Ian F. Macinnins
Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)
- "Ways to Integrate Original Scholarship in Both Upper and Lower Division Classes" by Ian F. Macinnins
- "Adding Research to a Course" by Cottrell Scholars
- CureNet hosted by Carleton College
- "Inquiry and Discovery-basd Projects within Introductory Courses" by Monica Bruckner
- "Expanding the CURE Model: Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience" published by Research Corporation for Science
- "Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences: Current Knowledge and Future Directions" by Erin Dolan
- "Using Exhibitions for Undergraduate Research" by Ian F. MacInnes, Alexa Sand, and Lisandra Estevez
Humanities and Arts Labs
- "Designing a Lab in the Humanities" by Fritz Breithaupt
- "Labs are for the Humanities, Too" by Maxine Joselow
- Humanities labs at Colby College
Humanities at Trinity
- Archive of Humanities Events at Trinity
Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Award
- Arts and Humanities Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CURAH)
Print Resources
- Books available in the Mellon Office