The following are eligible without prior approval:

• Tenure-track faculty members at UNH and UNHM
• Non-tenure track faculty at UNH, including research faculty, clinical faculty, and extension faculty with an appointment within an academic department/program

Other mentors may be eligible with prior approval (see below). Students planning to work with mentors who will require prior approval should contact the Hamel Center director (paul.tsang@unh.edu) before submitting an application.

Mentors requiring prior approval of the Hamel Center director and the mentor’s department chair, extension director, or program leader (as appropriate):

• UNH lecturers; adjunct, affiliate, and visiting faculty
• UNH research scientists
• Extension specialists without an academic department/program affiliation

Mentors requiring prior approval of the Hamel Center director and the student’s UNH faculty mentor:

• Faculty members at other institutions of higher learning
• Individuals not connected with an institution of higher learning, but who have special knowledge or expertise in the area in which the research is being conducted
• See the complete guidelines for choosing an off-campus mentor

Note:  Eligibility for all mentors also assumes the mentor’s availability to work with the student researcher throughout the entire undergraduate research process – i.e. availability not only during the actual research period, but also before the research begins (to assist with project design and proposal writing) and after the research has been completed (to assist with analysis of final results and presentation of research).