I have had many undergraduate students work with me on research projects. Last year, undergraduate physics major Vanessa Punal and I published a paper about the mechanical properties of cardiac tissue [1]. Vanessa is now a graduate student studying neuroscience at Duke University. A year before that I published an article [2] with former undergraduate medical physics major Nicholas Charteris, who is now agraduate student in the  OU Biomedical Sciences: Medical Physics PhD program. I have also mentored several outstanding undergraduates through the Department of Physics Summer Materials Research Training (SMaRT) program (http://www2.oakland.edu/physics/smart/index.cfm) [3-5]. As director of the Center for Biomedical Research (http://www.oakland.edu/cbr/), I support undergraduate research by letting OU students know of the many research opportunities available (http://www.oakland.edu/?id=9473&sid=247), by recruiting students to apply for prestigious awards such as the Goldwater Scholarship (http://www.act.org/goldwater/), and by nominating top undergraduates for Sigma Xi (http://www.sigmaxi.org/), the scientific research society. Undergraduate research is the  first step in the transformation from student to researcher; from learning established facts to creating new knowledge. It is the pivotal event in the development of a scientist.

[1]. Punal, V. M. and B. J. Roth, 2012, A perturbation solution of the mechanical bidomain model. Biomechanics and Modeling in
Mechanobiology, 11:995-1000.

[2] Charteris, N. and B. J. Roth, 2011, How hyperpolarization and recovery of excitability affect propagation through a virtual anode in
the heart. Comput. Math. Meth. Med., 2011:375059.

[3] Roth, B. J. and K. Schalte, 2009, Ultrasonically-induced Lorentz force tomography. Med. & Biol. Eng. & Comput., 47:573–577.

[4] Brinker, K. and B. J. Roth, 2008, The effect of electrical anisotropy during magneto-acoustic tomography with magnetic induction.
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 55:1637-1639.

[5] Tseng, N. and B. J. Roth, 2008, The potential induced inanisotropic tissue by the ultrasonically-induced Lorentz force. Med. &
Biol. Eng. & Comput., 46:195-197.