This highly readable book aims to ease the many challenges of starting undergraduate research. It accomplishes this by presenting a diverse series of selfcontained accessible articles which include specific open problems and prepare the reader to tackle them with ample background material and references. Each article also contains a carefully selected bibliography for further reading.The content spans the breadth of mathematics including many topics that are not normally addressed by the undergraduate curriculum such as matroid theory mathematical biology and operations research yet have few enough prerequisites that the interested student can start exploring them under the guidance of a faculty member.