This article is for faculty members. If you are an administrator or student, please see our Resources for Administrators or Resources for Students section.

If you are looking to engage students in your work, make sure they know that you are actively accepting students by selecting the toggle under Profile > Accepting Students? This toggle can be enabled even without posting a project. If you have an active project, the Accepting Students toggle will automatically be turned on. As long as you have an active project, the Accepting Students toggle cannot be turned off. Once the project is no longer active, the toggle setting can be changed. Selecting this toggle will indicate on your profile, as well as on the Search > Faculty page, that you are open to accepting students, as shown in the image below:


If you have specific projects that you would like to recruit students for, please post them to Projects in your dashboard. To post a new project, please select “Add a New Project”, where you will then be able to input or indicate the following information:

  • Project Title 
  • Seeking: Undergraduate, Master's Student, Doctoral Candidate, Postdoctoral Research / Research Staff, Medical Resident / Medical Fellow (optional)
  • Opportunity Type: Paid, Academic Credit, Volunteer 
  • Time commitment: 0-5 hours/week, 5-10 hours/week, 10-15 hours/week, 15-20 hours/week, 20-30 hours/week, or Fulltime 
  • Position application deadline (optional) 
  • Description 
  • Virtual/remote project

Once you have completed filling out your project information, you can confirm your project posting by selecting “Add Project”, where your project will then populate under Projects > Active. If you find that you have inputted any information incorrectly or would like to update your posting, you can edit your project information by selecting “Edit Project”.

If your project has an application deadline, it will appear under your faculty page to students until it reaches the deadline. If you would like to archive a project or remove it from student view, you can do so by selecting “Edit Project” > “Archive Project”. This action will move your project from Projects > Active to Projects > Archived.

If you do not have a specific project that you are recruiting students to work with but would still like to open your door to interested students, you can still set your toggle to “on” under Accepting Students? This action will allow students to send you an interest statement and any supplemental documents, which will then populate under Requests.

Once you begin receiving requests from students, you can filter applications under Requests. All submitted requests will appear under “Pending” until you take action by accepting or declining them. You can message students to schedule an interview or ask any relevant questions. Once you have made a decision, please select “Accept” or “Decline” at the bottom of the corresponding application. The request will then move to the relevant area (“Accepted” or “Declined”). The student will then be able to accept or decline your offer. During this process, you should also receive email notifications about submitted applications and students’ decisions.