Engaging Undergraduate Students in Computational Chemistry Research: A Tutorial for New Assistant Professors

In this article, we provide advice and insights, based on our own experiences, for computational chemists who are beginning new tenure-track positions at primarily undergraduate institutions. We each followed different routes to obtain our tenure-track positions, but we all experienced similar challenges when getting started in our new position. In this article, we discuss our approaches to seven areas that we all found important for engaging undergraduate students in our computational chemistry research, including setting up computational resources, recruiting research students, training research students, designing student projects, managing the lab, mentoring students, and student conference participation. KEYWORDS — undergraduate research, computational chemistry, primarily undergraduate institution, tenure-track position, career pathways