CBS 886

Interdisciplinary Research Team Mentoring

Section: 001

Course Description

This course will be a guided teaching experience within an academic framework that utilizes campus facilities and resources for supervised research. This course requires that you develop a research project with another graduate student and/or postdoctoral fellow and that, once approved, that an undergraduate student is added to the research team. This team then works together to complete the project. In addition, the teams will meet with course directors to ensure that the mentoring and research experience meets the course requirements The course includes hands-on mentoring in a laboratory setting, as well as participation in group meetings to develop skills associated with organizing and presenting research results both in written and verbal format.