Tag Archives: REU

Do your undergrads actually understand their summer research project?

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Joan E. Strassmann

All over the country, undergraduates are embarking on research projects. They are banding birds, squeezing ticks for parasites, culturing bacteria, seining streams, cutting open mice, and many other things. If you ask them what they are doing, they will be … Continue reading →

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How to get a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a SURF

Posted on March 23, 2013 by Joan E. Strassmann

If you aren’t going to change your life by studying at a biological field station, there are few better things to do with an undergraduate summer than research. One of the more interesting programs is called SURF, Summer Undergraduate Research … Continue reading →

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Are female professors invisible to undergrads?

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Joan E. Strassmann

One hundred percent of the last eight undergraduates to contact us about doing research in our laboratory have contacted my male partner and not me. Only one of these students was female. She too contacted only Dave. What is going … Continue reading →

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