The Student Government Association Undergraduate Research Board has organized the Undergraduate Research Fair.
The fair will take place at The Hotel at Auburn University and Dixon Conference Center on April 3rd from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
"There will be faculty manning tables to talk to you about research opportunities within their department," said Patrick Michael, sophomore in physics. "At each table we'll have packets of information regarding research projects in each department for students to come and pick up and look through and contact information for faculty members so that they can try and reach out and get involved in undergraduate research."
Michael was the SGA co-director of academic affairs on cabinet this past year and he helped form the Undergraduate Research Board.
This is the first year that the Undergraduate Research Board and Undergraduate Research Fair have existed.
"The Undergraduate Research Fair is a fair we set up to break the gap between research opportunity and professors looking to involve students in undergraduate research," said Mohamed Elzeiny, junior in microbiology. "It's this informational program we set up to get students out and get more involved in research."
There are 16 members on the Undergraduate Research Board who were selected through an application and interview process. They select the students from a variety of different fields, Smith said.
"We had all areas of campus researched in one group and we could all find out from our specific colleges what kind of opportunities were out there and how to get students better plugged in," Smith said.
Colson Smith, sophomore in organismal biology, will be facilitating helping students get introduced to professors and helping them find out what type of research they are interested in.
"It's great for us as well as students who will be attending just to find out what exactly is going on, what professors are doing, and how students can get connected with them," Smith said.
Smith is looking forward to seeing the students come out because he believes a lot of students don't know about this opportunity.
"After this, we really wont have an excuse not to know what's going and we'll definitely have a lot better understanding of the variety of research opportunities that we have," Smith said. "It's not just people in this one lab doing research, but it's all across campus for each student in each major."
The fair will be taking place during research week, which is happening throughout the entire week at the AU Hotel. The research week administrators gave the Undergraduate Research Board a time slot to have the fair.
"I know we are going to have tables from different departments," Elzeiny said.
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