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Program Description
The goal of RISE-UP is
to produce highly
competent
undergraduate students
who successfully
enroll in and complete
graduate degrees in
the biological
sciences.
Specifically RISE-UP
seeks to increase
access and opportunity
for students
traditionally
under-represented in
the biological
sciences.
Students will be
engaged in their first
college year in a
series of activities
dedicated to fostering
the following learning
outcomes: Problem
Identification Skills,
Problem
Characterization
Skills, Communication
Competency (oral,
written, and
technological),
Research Skills, and
Analytical Skills.
Within their first
year in the program
students will be
engaged in meaningful
research that leads to
presentation at
national/international
conferences and to
publication of their
research findings in
the peer-reviewed
scientific literature.
Using an apprentice
model faculty mentors
will be engaged in
life-long mentorship
of undergraduate
students in the
classroom, research
setting, and beyond
the undergraduate
degree. Students
participating in
RISE-UP will complete
their undergraduate
degrees and
successfully enroll in
and complete a
research-based
graduate program in
the biological
sciences.
To realize these
objectives, students
will become members of
one of 4 collaborative
cross-disciplinary
research teams.
Each team is led by a
senior faculty member
with significant
experience mentoring
undergraduate
researchers and
consists of 3-5
mentors who are
focused on a research
project that leverages
University strengths
in the agri-environmental
and molecular
biosciences. The
research focus of
these four groups is:
Evolution of Streams
through Urban and
Rural Landscapes,
Molecular Diagnostics
& High-throughput
Technologies,
Nanotoxicology and
Metabolite
Identification. |
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