Part I Entering Research: Session by Session
0 Finding a Research Mentor
1 Introduction to the Workshop Series and Finding a Research Mentor
2 The Nature of Science
3 Searching the Literature for Scientific Articles
4 Reading Scientific Articles and Mentoring Styles
5 Your Research Group’s Focus
6 Establishing Goals and Expectations with Your Mentor
7 Who’s Who in Your Research Group
8 Documenting Your Research
9 Defining Your Hypothesis or Research Question
10 Designing Your Experiments
11 Research Proposal Review Draft #1
12 Research Proposal Review Draft #2
13 Final Research Proposal Presentations
14 Final Research Proposal Presentations (continued)
Part II Entering Research: Session by Session
15 Introduction to the Workshop Series and Science Communication
16 Research Project Outlines and Scientific Abstracts
17 Research Project Outlines and Scientific Abstracts (continued)
18 Science and Society
19 Peer Review of General Public Abstracts
20 Research Ethics
21 Making Effective Scientific Presentations
22 Research Careers
23 Presentation Peer Review Draft #1
24 Presentation Outside Review Draft #2
25 Final Presentations
26 The Future of Your Project: Funding/Grants
27 Mini-Grant Proposal Peer Review 2
28 Research Experience Reflections and Celebration
Appendix
1 Facilitating, Not Teaching: Some Practical Tips
2 Discussion Guidelines for Students
3 Entering Research Part I Sample Syllabus
4 Entering Research Part II Sample Syllabus
5 Sample 10-Week Summer Syllabus
6 Syllabi for Entering Research and Entering Mentoring in Parallel
7 Sample One-Day Workshop Agenda