Information for Faculty

RES-MATCH provides support for energetic undergraduate or master’s students to do research in your laboratory. RES-MATCH projects also offer a pathway for you to prepare data or perform an experiment for a grant application or pursue a new area of research.

By participating in RES-MATCH, you can define a biomedical science or biomedical engineering research project with a student. All Illinois Institute of Technology faculty members are encouraged to apply. 

The Pritzker Institute will provide support of up $500 for project-related consumables, as well as, following successful completion of the project, one of the following for the faculty mentor in the following fiscal year:

  • $1,500 that can be used for a graduate student stipend OR
  • $1,000 that can be used for research-related expenses

Your project proposal should detail clear milestones achievable within one academic session.

Students recommended by faculty for RES-MATCH must be:

  • Illinois Tech undergraduates or master's students, and
  • New to the faculty member's laboratory (RES-MATCH is not intended as a means of supporting students currently working in a faculty member’s laboratory).

Here’s how it works: 

  1. You submit a semester-long research project proposal for an undergraduate student or master’s student in the field of biomedical science or engineering, and your proposal is reviewed for approval
  2. You attend a virtual presentation session in which you present one slide in one minute that describes your project to students
  3. Interested students contact you
  4. You recommend a RES-MATCH student for project approval
  5. You directly mentor the student during the semester
  6. Upon successful completion of the project, you are awarded, as above

Please contact Michael Barry (mbarry1@iit.edu) for further details or any questions about the suitability of any project or idea.