My aspiration for the future is to become a scientific researcher and the UTMB Summer Research Program is the perfect opportunity for me to gain experience and insight into research. At this program, I can spend my summer pursuing my passion and learning from my instructors and peers. I love working in the lab and look forward to learning new science concepts that I am able to apply in the lab and real life. The chance to participate in a real lab environment doing research into uncertain fields is a rare one and I am excited to have this opportunity. If I am accepted, my goal will be to learn what it means to be a researcher from this experience and use that knowledge to work hard and apply myself. I want to be a productive member of the team
Since my first visit at the Air Force Academy as a young boy, I instantly realized this is where I want to go. Ironically, I never why I wanted to go, was it my parents will or the expectations of others and myself? As I started to mature and grow, I learned more about the academy and what it really meant to become a cadet. The opportunity to have a world class education pushed me to pursue acceptance to the Academy. Going to the Summer Seminar will give me a chance to explore many aspects of cadet life to further enrich my interest in the Academy.
I approached Pennstate this past August with a great deal of anxiety, interest, and excitement. I had no clue what school would be like, and I knew that I would have to learn how to adjust to my new student life. The rapid adaptation I would need is one that would be comparable a scientist in a lab, trying to discover a cure for the new strain of flu virus that would thrust the world into an unnecessary panic.
...rt of my undergraduate preparation. I hope to make some substantial progress on my project with Dr. Pellegrini and have presentable data by the end of the program and contribute to the scientific community. I also look forward to networking with fellow SPUR-LABS students and faculty. In my time at UCLA, I have realized that research is all but a solo act. It is a cooperative endeavor, and being in the program will provide a collaborative and supportive environment for me to succeed. Ideally, I would like to have at least one paper published during my undergraduate career. C.S. Lewis once said, “Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn.” Such experiences, especially SPUR-LABS will hopefully aid my journey to graduate school and my pursuit of a Ph.D. and work in academia and work alongside of the professors and mentors I have today.
As a laboratory prep, I was able to set up labs for freshmen and sophomore biology classes. Also, I made visits to my professor’s labs to observe the procedures graduate students used for their experiments and I loved it. After completion of my freshman year, I participated in the “Maternal Child Health Pipeline Training Program” that following summer. I conducted field research that focused on the public health of mothers and children in rural communities. The fall semester of sophomore year, I shadowed graduate students studying breast cancer cells. Later that same year, I began my own research with laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). Upon my junior year, I was accepted into the Virginia College of Osteopathic Medical Program in Auburn, Alabama. At the same time, I was accepted into the Tropical and Infectious Diseases Association in Iquitos, Peru. I was able to study abroad and work in a lab focusing on the negative gram bacteria that was in the water of the poor community of Iquitos, Peru. All of the opportunities I was able to be a part of from my freshman year till this present day has reconfirmed my passion and contributed to my specific area of research and the population I want to
Luckily, the NC School of Science and Mathematics was sponsoring a fully-funded 5-week summer research internship for its students at universities in North Carolina. I saw it as a perfect opportunity to learn more about the topic while being an intern at the lab.
A Way for a University to be victorious, like Iowa State University, is to set several well planned goals that not only support it’s students but also there staff and alumni. Like the Strategic Plan here on campus is to “provide a high quality student life that engages students to learn, grow, and succeed as global citizens and involved alumni.” A certain place on campus that has been doing this is the Iowa State University Memorial Union. This practical and historic landmark on campus was one of the first building built here at Iowa State University. The “MU” as it may be named calls to not only to hold ISU’s plan but it also squires goals on its own, like “nurture common ground, enrich and sustain individuals lives, and remember.”
I hope this summer program will help me get a better feel for what research outside of the classroom is like. I wish to do research in college and in the future, so I hope that this summer program will give me experience for my future research endeavors. Being able to learn new things that stretch my mind is my passion, and being able to do research at this summer program would really help me grow as a person. Please give me this chance experience a wonderful and educational summer.
University of California—Riverside is a public institution that was founded in 1954. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 19,799, its setting is city, and the campus size is 1,200 acres. It utilizes a quarter-based academic calendar. University of California—Riverside's ranking in the 2018 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 124. Its in-state tuition and fees are $13,917 (2017-18); out-of-state tuition and fees are $41,931 (2017-18).
The main aspect that drew me to attend Maryville University is that it offered online courses and the enrollment advisor. Online classes allow the flexibility for me to complete course work and assignments around my family, work life and community events. Some of the roles I have are: being a mother of 6 children, attending all their activities, director of nursing for an assistive living facility, girl scout troop leader and church women board. The enrollment advisor played a huge part in choosing the program. After a brief discussion about the Family Nurse Practitioner program I wasn’t just another student they were trying to get signed up for classes but the enrollment advisor invested time in me. The enrollment advisor continued to follow
Currently, the Steamboat Springs campus is not doing a very productive job at encouraging appropriate sustainability thoughts or behavior concerning the Real Food Challenge. The prevailing system in place promotes students and staff not questioning what Sodexo has given to us when it comes to dining hall and cafe options by setting low standards and maintaining them. This is enabled by the lack of architecture, signage or other communication channels that would encourage and motivate the CMC community to make the shift regarding real food options.
Chapter 2: Strategic Defense, Phony Facts, & the Creation of the George C. Marshall Institute
Us as citizens rarely realize that our very own government can manipulate a variety of aspects of our everyday lives; from the stories that are posted online to news reportings on T.V. Governments tend to do this to influence their audience into agreeing a certain topic or to make a situation sound a certain away for their benefit. Whatever the government doesn’t agree to, they tend to ban it or get rid of it to prevent their citizens from viewing it. Governments also tend to hide esoteric topics that don’t want to be released to the public because it may not benefit them and viewers can interpret the topic in different ways that can lead to arguments. Most importantly, governments tend to manipulate overall is our language.
...nd physics, as well as improving my analytical and programming skills before engaging in research will make this a more worthwhile experience.
On June 22, 2015, I was heading towards the Engineering IV building on the UCLA campus; it seemed like my first day of school because I had no clue of what might happen or what type of people I would meet. But I was actually going to the first day of an engineering summer program called High School Summer Research Program (HSSRP). For the next eight weeks, I was immersed in the world of graduate research, which was a challenge that I felt was necessary in order to learn the true nature of engineering. Working in the electrical engineering department with two other students from different high schools, we had to work as a group to design, fabricate, and test a Quasi-Yagi antenna. Not only did we have conduct research, we also had to present
As a transfer junior attending the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, I am more than excited to seek for and to be a part of the research team. All the classes I had in my previous college, which is Green River College, a two-year college located in Washington, are non-research based classes, and there were no research opportunities available for students; therefore, I cannot stand to let myself blend into research coursework at the University of Illinois. I found the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program, and I believe this would be an excellent opportunity for me to start building my research experiences at the University. By looking through the graduate mentors’ descriptions, I am amazed by all the works they have made. All of them are fascinating and intriguing to me. Nevertheless, I am drawn to these three topics the most; they consecutively are Rekha Balachandran’s, Kim Drager’s and Aseel Addawood’s.