Advancing Science while Training Undergraduates: Recommendations from a Collaborative Biology Research Network.

ABSTRACT: Biology research is becoming increasingly dependent on large-scale, "big data," networked research initiatives. At the same time, there has been a corresponding effort to expand undergraduate participation in research to benefit student learning and persistence in science. This essay examines the confluence of this trend through eight years of a collaboration within a successful biology research network that explicitly incorporates undergraduates into large-scale scientific research. We draw upon interviews with faculty in this network to consider the interplay of scientific and pedagogical objectives at the heart of this undergraduate-focused network research project. We identify ways that this network has expanded and diversified access to scientific knowledge production for faculty and

SUBMITTER: Jensen-Ryan D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8693944 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature