"Zooming" Our Way through Virtual Undergraduate Research Training: A Successful Redesign of the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on education globally, forcing the teaching community to think outside the box and create innovative educational plans to benefit students at home. Here, we narrate how the undergraduate, laboratory-based Summer Internship Program of our CONSERVE Center of Excellence, which focuses heavily on engaging women and underrepresented minorities in STEM programming, took a turn from an in-person research experience to a fully virtual one. We share our challenges and how we overcame them. Additionally, we provide a description of our virtual internship professional development curriculum, as well as the creative research projects that our seven interns were able to achieve in an 8-week virtual internship, including projects focused on the microbiolo

SUBMITTER: Malayil L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8060145 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature