What is involved in undergraduate research?
You should expect to spend 12-15 hours per week in the lab working on your research project. Your research advisor will help you define a research problem, design experiments, and interpret results. Students often work closely with a graduate student, post-doctoral associate, or other member of the lab. You must keep a lab notebook to record your experiments and results. At the end of the semester, you must write a paper on your research project. The paper is a standard format and includes the following sections: a one-paragraph abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and literature cited. In addition, you must include data tables and figures, along with a legend for each figure, in your paper.
