Undergraduate research in nursing has demonstrated effectiveness in producing emerging scholars and leaders for the profession by nurturing the spirit of inquiry, creativity, and collaboration needed to advance the profession. Undergraduate research in nursing opens a window of creativity, mentoring, longitudinal relationships, and inspiration for the bright and gifted students entering the profession. The diverse nature of nursing provides a broad spectrum of transformative research opportunities for nursing students to establish scholarly identity at the launch of their careers. These range from diverse curricular models, clinical research internships, service-learning/global initiatives, faculty-led studies, and interprofessional research collaboration. Nursing theories guide research projects grounded in the discipline. Visionary leadership with adequate resources and a strategic approach to undergraduate research mentoring yield mutually beneficially outcomes in the process of developing requisite skills for graduate studies. Nursing education transformation that fosters a research culture contributes to a bright future with a vision of global significance.

Research opportunities for undergraduate engineers vary widely in topics, tasks, and organization, yet they all convey knowledge and practices that are fundamental to engineering work and culture. This chapter outlines that engineering worldview and how it shapes undergraduate research opportunities, and then recommends best practices for undergraduate research in engineering.

The chapter focuses on attracting individuals whose predispositions will create a foundation for high quality service to citizens. Arguing for public organizations to attract individuals with high public service motivations means that merit, which has traditionally been associated with competence alone, would be defined more broadly, to include service predispositions. This chapter identifies methods for attracting and selecting high public service motivation staff. Among the methods are for public leaders to develop compelling organizational images and to advertize to appeal to prospects' commitments to making a difference. Public organizations should also screen in applicants with high public service motivation (or similar attributes) and screen out prospects whose motivations are likely to crowd out intrinsic or prosocial motivations.