These contacts now constitute a listserv and have been active in promoting the forum. Much emphasis has been placed on encouraging non-honors students to participate. Not all students are ready or prepared. However, many are quite interested and find that research, broadly defined, brings classroom learning to life. We will have 100 participants this year, up from 60 two years ago.
Every discipline is represented.
The representation is not equal, so we have had to combine some disciplines to establish categories for the prizes. We have prepared an admissions brochure on undergraduate research to help recruiters excite high school students about the possibilities for any undergraduate at Ohio State. We have an institutional web page on undergraduate research. We contact prize winners' high schools and career counselors with press releases for local use. We are now preparing public service announcements for national TV during the football and basketball seasons.