Guest Opinion: Undergraduate Research Assistants

Educating Young Educators: A Pedagogical Internship for Undergraduate Teaching Assistants

Although undergraduates have long held a role as teaching assistants for introductory science courses at liberal arts colleges and universities, educational institutions often do not provide these students with opportunities to explore science teaching and pedagogy. At Brandeis University, we designed an internship course to help increase the motivation, understanding, and knowledge of teaching...

Undergraduate Undergraduate Research Forum Abstracts @bullet 2011

S • 2011 Student Center Ballrooms April 11, 2011 Southern Illinois University Carbondale The Undergraduate Research Forum is part of REACH (Research-Enriched Academic Challenge), a campus-wide program for undergraduates coordinated by the Offi ce of Research Development and Administration at SIUC. For more information, visit www.reach.siuc.edu. "Engaging in research creates new and exciting lea...

ADSA-SAD Undergraduate Competition: Undergraduate Original Research

A study evaluating the effects of metaphylaxis antibiotics and milk replacer additives on the health and development of Holstein bull calves (n = 52; mean body weight = 42.28 kg + 3 kg; starting age < 3 d) was conducted. The calves were placed into a completely random 3 × 4 factorial design with each group receiving either tilmicosin phosphate (TIL), ceftiofur crystalline free acid (CEF), or sa...

UK Undergraduate Research Program

Symposium on Undergraduate Research

ThEE2 1:45 PM: Beam alignment guide for laser experiments. Catherine R. DeMarco, Matthew E. Anderson, San Diego State Univ., USA. The Beam Alignment Guide for Laser Experiments (BAGLE) is an automated system that aligns visible and near-infrared optical beams. The responses of two quadrature detectors, located directly behind semi-transmissive mirrors, are analyzed electronically. A feedback lo...