Sentences with phrase «done undergraduate research»

If you've done undergraduate research, you should definitely include a letter from your research adviser.

I did some undergraduate research, and my Ph. D., in simulations of biomolecules.

Not exact matches

The research, conducted by a pair of University of Illinois psychologists, asked undergraduates to report what changes they'd like to make to their personalities and then tracked them over time to see if, with a little guidance and an active commitment to alter their personalities, they could actually do it.

To understand why graduation rates in computer science are so low for women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?

The title of analyst typically is used for undergraduate students who intern for the summer, and doesn't refer to research analysts who recommend stocks to investors.

One of the main problems that I was confronted with on - site, and one which many social scientists encounter too, is that «traditional» Western theory and methodology adequately prepare undergraduate and graduate students for carrying out research in their own societies, but neither prepare them for dealing with difficult research circumstances, nor do they train students for conflict areas in post-traumatic societies.Such history (and political science) courses seem to be functional and have roots in European reality.

He carries out his research with undergraduates — who don't stick around very long after starting a research project — and collaborators from other institutions.

«The minute I stopped doing research,» she said, «I gave up the possibility of being Dean of Arts & Sciences or Undergraduate Researchresearch,» she said, «I gave up the possibility of being Dean of Arts & Sciences or Undergraduate ResearchResearch.»

Undergraduates interested in a biomaterials career should consider «spending a summer doing a medical internship, or spending some time in... a research and development environment of a company or in a government institute,» Peppas says.

That means doing real laboratory courses and probably some individual research project or undergraduate thesis.

This opportunity to experience life and studying in another country was offered to me by a brilliant Hungarian young researcher whom I got to know as an undergraduate student, doing my diploma work at the same department where he was doing research (department of anthropology, University of Szeged, Hungary).

Fisher carried out the data analysis while doing research at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa after earning her undergraduate degree.

'» And at the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, every proposal by anyone doing research, from undergraduates through senior professors, must include a hazard analysis that is approved by the college's director of engineering safety, David Breeding, as I reported earlier this year.

But just because his research involves undergraduates, and even high school students, doesn't mean it's make - work pseudo-research.

«This project that they did was my dream,» says Gerry Carter, a University of Maryland, College Park, graduate student who was not involved in the new research and who tackled a similar problem as an undergraduate.

Our program also includes an extensive undergraduate component, an outreach component that provides short - term opportunities for biologists to enhance their quantitative training, and opportunities for graduate students to do collaborative research with full - time staff and postdoctoral researchers at UT in computational ecology, or with a variety of researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab and private firms.

Early research opportunities are critical, many science educators believe: A 2007 study found that undergraduates who participate in laboratory research are significantly more likely to pursue advanced degrees in science and engineering than those who don't get hands - on research experience.

Administrators at St. Mary's College of Maryland, a small state school in Southern Maryland, recently did their own cost - benefit analysis of the value of undergraduate research.

It didn't matter how skillful and dedicated this undergraduate was at the research bench; she did not meet the basic requirements, and I declined to write a letter of support.

One of the few studies that has been done on the purpose of undergraduate research came up with mixed findings.

Elite schools, both liberal arts colleges and research universities, do a better job overall of retaining undergraduates in the sciences: At these institutions 54 % of women but only 39 percent of men drop out of science before attaining a degree.

You can decide on the M.D. alone — complimented by research experiences as an undergraduate, a medical student (usually between M1 and M2 years), or a resident / fellow — or do an M.D. / Ph.D..

His undergraduate research at Hunter College produced six papers, and «a lot of people were surprised that a person of color could do this,» he says.

In fact, high - quality research is being done at small liberal arts colleges, and the importance of undergraduate research experiences in preparing future scientists is widely recognized.

But the AAU initiative also calls on universities and colleges to offer undergraduate students more opportunities to do research, shorten the time it takes for students to earn Ph.D. s, reduce attrition rates, and train better K - 12 science and math teachers.

GRE scores and undergraduate GPA don't predict students» future graduate school productivity, but reference letters from previous research advisers may provide clues about whether they are going to publish well, according to a story over at our Science Careers sister site about two papers published today in PLOS ONE.

«If you're going to be doing research full time in graduate school,» Burge says, «why would you go through your whole undergraduate experience and never try it?»

During the school year, it's very common to find undergraduate students doing research for college credit, so they don't get paid.

In clinical medicine, applications for residency positions include a section for research experience, Doyle adds — work a young doctor often would have done as an undergraduate.

However, science editors do work on the full range of academic titles, from undergraduate textbooks to research - level books and popular science, so there is plenty of room for creativity.

Difficult because, unlike undergraduate research subjects, very young children (just like puppies) wiggle around, don't pay attention for long and can't easily be instructed.

But even postdocs who teach are still expected to do research, especially if it can involve undergraduates.

The trouble was, I hated working in universities, didn't much care for research, and was depressed by the thought of teaching undergraduate physics for the rest of my life.

As an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Marcy came under the wing of evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Hadly, whose outreach work made Marcy keenly aware of the value of doing more than just research.

What's really impressive about Babar's accomplishment is that he did the work for both papers — one on the role of a population of stem cells in lung cancer development (published in Cell) the other on gene expression in group A Streptococcus (published in PNAS)-- as a participant in summer undergraduate research programs.

Although nowadays many undergraduates get a taste of the research life, Susan Gerbi, former chair of the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, recommends working as a research assistant after graduation to see what «doing research 100 % of the time» is like.

It «is more about experience than output, and we don't expect the students to produce papers for a journal within 10 weeks,» says Jonathan Williams, an associate professor at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, who runs the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program there.

Two NTU undergraduates doing their Final Year Project and one student in Summer Research Internship Programme (NTU) were also part of the team.

Unfortunately, in addition to the challenges of doing research with undergraduates while teaching four or more courses per year, they find themselves faced with obstacles strewn in their paths by oblivious administrators.

Too often, faculty use teaching methods that do not match the cutting - edge character of their biological research, said Terry Woodin, a program director in NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education.

I am helping to develop a set of labs that enables undergraduate students, early in their academic career, to experience what it is like to do research.

Separate research by Daniel Rubenstein, a Princeton University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the Open Science paper, and Princeton undergraduate Damaris Iriondo strongly suggests that boldly striped zebras have external body temperatures about five degrees Fahrenheit cooler than other animals of the same size — like antelopes — that do not have stripes but live in the same areas.

Our research crew of undergraduate students are ready to collect ahead of time, but commercial producers don't always have this luxury.»

Examples of ways of doing this include: giving seminars, helping to organize conferences and workshops, helping to organize seminars and talks, and discussing research with undergraduate and graduate students who are working on research projects.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Science was set up in 2005 to develop new approaches to the teaching of undergraduate university science through real world problems, such as climate change, which do not fit into a single scientific discipline and require research across subject specialisms.

Previously, Dr. Tajonar did research in the lab of Prof. Rudolf Jaenisch as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As a student coming from a small undergraduate institution, this was my first opportunity to do research full - time, working alongside graduate students and primarily research - active faculty members.

During my second semester as an undergraduate, I began to do research for the first time... I was enthralled by the challenge of research on the cutting edge of science.

I went to college at Reed College in Portland, where I did a research fellowship for my undergraduate thesis that used advanced microscopy to study the development of some bizarre marine worms.

Dr. Sharpe received her A.B. from Harvard University, where she did undergraduate thesis research in the laboratory of Dr. Jack Strominger.