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Undergraduate Research Forum

Recipe for Success: Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research

Thursday, November 19, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Campus Reading Room
Thompson Library, 11th floor
1858 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Please join a panel of Mershon Center affiliated faculty and graduate students for an interdisciplinary discussion on the basic ingredients of a good undergraduate research project.

Panel members will cite examples of good undergraduate research projects and address such questions as:
• How do you develop good research questions?
• What types of methodologies should you use in your research?
• What foundation do you need to have before undertaking a research project? What theories and facts do you need to know? What classes do you need to take?
• How can undergraduates work with the Institutional Review Board?
• How can undergraduates make connections with faculty members?

Panelists include:
Sarah Brooks, Associate Professor of Political Science
William Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Psychology
Geoffrey Parker, Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History

This was one of the most successful undergraduate events sponsored by the Mershon Center last year, with more than 70 percent of respondents rating it as extremely valuable.

Sarah Brooks
Sarah Brooks
Associate Professor
of Political Science

William Cunningham
William Cunningham
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Geoffrey Parker
Geoffrey Parker
Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History


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