Research and Experiment Design in Stem Fields

3 units

Building on the work of previous sessions of Readings in STEM, this course will offer continued instruction in research design, methods, and evaluation in a range of STEM fields. The course will provide opportunities to engage in research, analyze and summarize laboratory data, and discuss the research communicated by other scientists, as well as train students to propose their own original experiments in a common grant application format. This class will be structured around the creation of an NIH F31 style grant, including a specific aims page, a background, significance and impact statement, and an approach. The structure of this grant will be explained in class and the complete grant will be due at the end of the class in place of a final exam.