Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant
HHMI Fellow development will include:
- a research preparation course during their first Spring Term as a Fellow
- two intensive summer research periods with a chosen faculty mentor
- academic year research opportunities with faculty mentor
- weekly group meetings in the summer (and monthly through the academic year)
- weekly brown-bag summer lunchtime sessions for invited speakers, for presentation of ongoing summer research, and for career planning or preparing publications
- introduction to special facilities and equipment for shared use
- a program for one-on-one mentoring by the program director and faculty
- the option of supplementary training at another institution during their 2nd intensive research period.
- participation in an on-campus annual fall poster session and/or in our biennial interdisciplinary conference
- publication in a student-run science journal
- attend and present work at a national meeting
- preparation of a manuscript for peer-reviewed journal publication.
Spring-term research preparation course (3 credits):
This course will be taught by the program director with participation from invited speakers and faculty research mentors as appropriate. The course will be composed of seminar and workshop modules on such topics as: critical reading of research papers; use of relevant primary literature in experimental design; integrative approaches to research questions; use of quantitative methods and modeling; data acquisition, record-keeping, and analysis; research ethics; introduction to specific techniques by faculty mentors; scientific writing and data presentation. In addition, students will develop and present a research plan for the summer that will be discussed and critiqued by the whole group.
