Senior Research Project

Catalog description

Introduction to Research, a consent of the department and research faculty member under whom the work is to be completed. A non- didactic course designed to give the student an opportunity to expand on their first semester of faculty-mentored research project by studying the scientific literature, accumulating a reportable amount of data and orally communicating the research project’s progress to the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) near the semester’s end in one of the following presentation formats: as a departmental seminar, a poster at a symposium or in the Daily Planet theater of the NC Museum of Natural History. The oral report will include background, significance, hypothesis, results, data analysis, and conclusions. Students are expected to spend, on average, 6 hours in the research lab or designated research location per week with outside hours to study scientific literature and design oral presentation. (Credit hours count towards required elective hours for the DBBS major)