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Multi-year assessment of self-reported benefits, outcomes, learning goals, and awards for diverse, liberal arts college undergraduate researchers found consistent benefits but discipline- and ethnicity-dependent outcomes. The role of the mentor-protégé relationship and the research projects' initiation both show disciplinary and ethnic group dependence. Research participation is associated with student achievement.
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