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Perch,
an
online
research platform created
by
a
team
of
mostly
University of Michigan
students,
launched
Monday. The startup aims
to connect more students
and graduates across the
country
with
research
positions.
Engineering and LSA
senior
Akira
Nishii
came up with the idea
for Perch after having
trouble finding research
opportunities
when
he
entered
the
University.
He found that outside
of
the
Undergraduate
Research
Opportunity
Program,
which
is
aimed at freshmen and
sophomores,
there
was

no
centralized
system
that
listed
research
opportunities
and
was
accessible to all students.
“A lot of students are
relying on very inefficient
methods,
like
cold-
emailing, or relying on
personal
connections
to
get
into
research
opportunities,”
Nishii
said.
He
gathered
a
team
of peers, and together
they started working on
a solution to centralize
all
the
research
opportunities.
Now
Perch has launched an
encompassing
database
of
inter-university
research
opportunities
and
research
faculty.
They
have
16
partner
universities, including the
University of Michigan,

Harvard
and
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of Technology.

Nolan
Kataoka,
chief
technology
officer of Perch and
Engineering
senior,
highlighted
Perch’s
future plans for the
platform.
“In the long term,
we’d like to have a
database of all the
faculty
in
all
the
universities
in
the
U.S.,” Kataoka said.
Perch
also
helps
graduate
students
find
employment
and streamlines the
process
of
helping
graduates
find
positions outside of

academia, Nishii said.
“In
addition
to
the
database of faculty and
industrial
research
opportunities,
we’re
providing
a
matching
algorithm where we help
search through a Ph.D.’s
list
of
publications,
qualifications,
skill
sets,” Nishii said. “We
help Ph.D.s identify jobs
that are most relevant to
them.”
On campus, Perch is
partnered with a separate
student organization at
the
University
called
Perch Education, which
aims to expose students
to the research world. It
now hosts the Michigan
Undergraduate Research
Symposium,
and
offers
courses to equip students
with the skills to succeed
in research.
Senior
Associate
Librarian at the Shapiro
Undergraduate
Library,
Jo Angela Oehrli, played
a
key
role
in
Perch
Education and acts as
an advisor for the Perch
platform team. Due to her
background in education,
she
was
able
to
help
construct
the
teaching
curriculum from scratch
for Perch Education.
Oehrli first served as
a library mentor when
Perch won the Library
Student Mini Grant, and
she
looks
forward
to
the addition of graduate
opportunities.
“With the skill set of
these
Ph.D.
candidates
and recent Ph.D. earners …
the research will be richer
after
that
connection,”
Oehrli said. “And that can
make an impact on the
world as well.”

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