The Undergraduate ALFALFA Team: A Collaborative Model for Undergraduate Research in Major Long-term Astronomy Projects.

The research landscape in many areas of science has migrated toward increasingly large collaborations with the work done over long time periods, making it ever more challenging to involve undergraduates in cutting-edge projects. We describe our 19-institution collaboration founded to promote undergraduate research and faculty development within the context of an astronomical-survey project, discuss its efficacy, and summarize how this model may be applied to other large-scale research projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]