Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant
HHMI Fellow development will include:
- a research preparation course (INTR 200 or approved equivalent) during their first Spring Term as a Fellow
- two intensive summer research periods with a chosen faculty mentor
- academic year research opportunities with faculty mentor
- weekly group meetings in the summer (and monthly through the academic year)
- weekly brown-bag summer lunchtime sessions for invited speakers, for presentation of ongoing summer research, and for career planning or preparing publications
- introduction to special facilities and equipment for shared use
- a program for one-on-one mentoring by the program director and faculty
- the option of supplementary training at another institution during their 2nd intensive research period.
- participation in an on-campus annual fall poster session and/or in our biennial interdisciplinary conference
- publication in a student-run science journal
- attend and present work at a national meeting
- preparation of a manuscript for peer-reviewed journal publication.
INTR 200: Research Preparation in the Sciences (4 credits, spring term):
This course will be composed of seminar and workshop modules on such topics as: critical reading of research papers; use of relevant primary literature in experimental design; integrative approaches to research questions; use of quantitative methods and modeling; data acquisition, record-keeping, and analysis; research ethics; introduction to specific lab techniques used in research; scientific writing and data presentation. In addition, students will develop and present a research plan for their research project that will be discussed and critiqued by the whole group.
