Undergraduate Student Research Opportunities and Economic Revitalization through Urban Agriculture Initiatives

Undergraduate Research Opportunities in OSS

Using Open Source Software (OSS) in undergraduate teaching in universities is now commonplace. Students use OSS applications and systems in their courses on programming, operating systems, DBMS, web development to name but a few. Studying OSS projects from both a product and a process view also forms part of the software engineering curriculum at various universities. Many students have taken p...

Undergraduate research experiences: Impacts and opportunities

For any undergraduate contemplating a career in scientific research, participating in authentic research seems like a good opportunity. But what are authentic research experiences? How do they benefit undergraduates? What forms of mentoring are successful? What needs improvement? And how can these experiences meet the needs of interested students while at the same time be cost-effective in larg...

Undergraduate Urban Metagenomics Research Moduleâ•€

Undergraduate Urban Metagenomics Research Module†

Medical School Ranking and Student Research Opportunities.

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to characterize the current state of student research opportunities in a sample of US medical schools ranked in three different tiers. METHODS The authors examined the websites for five US medical schools in each of the first, second, and third tiers per National Institutes of Health funding and U.S. News & World Report rankings. Available research opportunities wer...