NEW YORK ― ScholarBridge, a two-year-old New York tech startup linking students with researchers, is growing in reach among schools with diverse student populations.
Having announced in January that Clark-Atlanta University (CAU) had become the first HBCU to adopt its online platform in order to expand student-professor research collaborations, the company will go into the fall with a user base tapping into the underserved market.
To date, 15 universities have signed with the education tracking and analytics firm. Undergraduate and graduate research officers are among those who use the program in order to automate and monitor the process of matching student researchers with mentors. This new efficiency is expected to increase collaboration and better position students for jobs and advanced-degree programs after graduation.
Created by doctoral and medical students in hard sciences, the ScholarBridge resource equips interested students to search and filter through a database of mentors and research opportunities across all disciplines on their campus as well as nationwide. Faculty who post profiles and current research opportunities open for hiring are easily able to manage applicant evaluation and hiring. School administrators can track the interaction easily with the analytics tools.
Dr. Guillermo Rosas, an associate professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis, uses ScholarBridge as a tool for identifying top candidates for research assistant roles.
“Thanks to ScholarBridge, I have been able to attract motivated, hard-working students to work with me,” said Rosas. “These are students with whom I may not have otherwise interacted, since many come from fields other than political science.”
