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Do your undergrads actually understand their summer research project?
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
Posted in Research, Undergraduates, Your lab group
Tagged NSF, REU, scientific method, undergraduate research
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How to get a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, a SURF
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
Posted in Grant proposals, Research, Undergraduates
Tagged Biology, Colleges and Universities, Education, fellowships, National Science Foundation, NSF, Research, Research Groups and Centers, Research proposal, REU, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, SURF, Undergraduate education, undergraduate research, Washington University in St. Louis
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Are female professors invisible to undergrads?
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
Posted in Genber bias, Undergraduates
Tagged bias, female scientists, Research, REU, sexism, summer programs, undergraduates
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