{"id":15055,"date":"2018-06-14T05:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/14\/a-summer-of-science-at-clark\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T13:53:16","slug":"a-summer-of-science-at-clark","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2018\/06\/14\/a-summer-of-science-at-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"A summer of science at Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

Nearly 50 undergraduates learning the ropes of research in faculty labs<\/p>\n

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Nearly 50 undergraduate students have received funding to work in faculty’s scientific laboratories this summer.<\/p>\n

As part of their 10-week experience, students are attending weekly workshops by faculty researchers, who are sharing advice on everything from writing scientific manuscripts and submitting them to journals, to exploring research-oriented careers in and outside of academia.<\/p>\n

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Chemistry Professor Mark Turnbull spoke to summer science students about how to prepare their manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bulk of the students in Clark’s Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program received stipends from the program itself; the rest received funding from University and departmental endowments, faculty research grants, and the LEEP Center. In many cases, the students received funds to live on campus.<\/p>\n

“The program’s goal is to develop a greater sense of community and synergy to increase students’ productivity and professional development as researchers,” says Deborah Robertson<\/a>, professor and Warren Litsky ’45 Endowed Chair of Biology<\/a>. She co-directs the Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program with Denis Larochelle<\/a>, associate professor of biology.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one students received stipends from the Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program, which forms the basis for the workshops that draw other science students working in labs on campus:<\/p>\n