YORC Young Researchers’ Corner

Creation Value in the society supporting new generations of researchers and problem solvers.

The Young Researcher ‘s Corner

The Young Researchers’ Corner is a virtual place for all of students at WKU. As all of us are researchers in our daily life and our professional or academic work, to develop more good research is a matter of finding among many factors and means to satisfy our curiosity!

Rationale

Students in the beginning steps of doing research require a lot of guidance, support, and orientation to avoid being lost in the ocean of publications and sources of knowledge as well as sources of garbage. The Young Researchers’ Corner aims to start the creation of a means to bring students to a friendly initiation to do research, to find good sources to start a good literature review, to find good readings that motivate and support the students’ curiosity. We need a virtual location for students that facilitates the presentation of research work or research events at the WKU where embraces and enriches the environment for students doing research.

Benefits

• Engage students to the research services that support their research activities
• Introduce students to the research world using resources of the research centers
• Facilitate students’ journey to be a researcher and to use the appropriate sources of knowledge
• Motivate students’ contribution to create a friendly environment of doing research
• Build the point of encounter to satisfy students’ appetite of searching for answers to the questions of their interests

Services

One-stop-shop for guidance, resources, and activities related to research at the WKU called The Young Researcher’s Corner

Operation

• Connecting the courses of Research and Technology to the resources of research centers.
• Connecting the events/activities at the WKU related to create knowledge and develop academic activities
• Providing guidance to search for resources of data, software, and ways to socialize and collaborate in doing research
• Organizing content. For example, each color in the matrix-table below indicates areas that are connected. The layout of the page can follow a similar pattern.
• Guide to use more efficiently the research centers resources
• Use of external resources, data, software, buzzword topics, topic news, etc.
• Promote-develop activities – events and ways of creating a research network
• Connect the experts from different fields
• Connect the Mathematics Innovation and Discovery Space
• Inform-Promote- Research groups of students, professors