Project Lever

“Establishing a good relationship with your advisor is arguably the most critical factor for success” - Harvard Government Department

Project Lever helps students start research projects faster and more easily. 

The Problem

When starting a research project, college students spend dozens of hours filtering through university webpages trying to find the right resources without any good tools to locate them. Students waste time searching for resources, miss opportunities, or find the wrong resources for their project. 70% of Tufts students say they would do more research if resources were more widely available. 67% of students at UCLA consider finding an academic mentor as a moderate or major problem. 57% of the students at Harvard who plan to do research projects fail to do so by the time they graduate.

The Solution

Project Lever pulls all of a university’s research resources into one place and uses natural language processing to let students find 1) previous student research projects, 2) faculty and graduate student profiles, 3) courses, 4) research grants and scholarships, and 5) library resources, all organized in a user-friendly way. We sell subscriptions to universities, who offer them to their students for free. Using data scraping algorithms, we implement our solutions in weeks, not months or years.

Value

Project Lever is unique because it brings valuable content provided by the university while reaching students in "their language", using an attractive user interface.  

• For students: More time spent on research, less on searching for resources
• For universities: All university content, aggregated and organized in a matter of weeks, not months or years
• For faculty: Better student-advisor match helps to optimize faculty investment into the right student
• For all: Better research