Course Based Undergraduate Research in Biology

Catalog description

Students in this course will collaborate on current research projects in the laboratories of faculty in various areas of biological sciences. Students will be part of a faculty-led cohort who will pursue hypothesis driven science using laboratory techniques that depend on the faculty member’s area of expertise. This course is structured to provide students with lab safety training, background for the research project, the rationale for the hypothesis, instruction on instrumentation, techniques and experimental design, and hands-on application of a set of laboratory techniques and data analysis tools to test the hypothesis. Students will reflect on their research experience by keeping a detailed laboratory notebook and communicating their results in both oral and written form. This is a course-based faculty-led research experience, not an independent study.