March 13, 2013
The program, now officially approved by the Academic Senate, is coordinated by professor Jay Rosenheim and assistant professors Louie Yang and Joanna Chiu, all of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.
The coordinators ask:
"Eager to have the kind of one-on-one training and mentorship that you'd normally find only in a small liberal arts college?"
"Want to develop the skills that will make your application to graduate school, med school or vet school really stand out from the crowd?"
The Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology can provide the opportunity to learn research skills in all areas of biology:
- behavior and ecology
- biodiversity
- agroecology
- population biology
- mathematical bology
- human health
- cell biology
- biochemistry
- molecular biology
The program, which includes more than 40 mentoring faculty, aims to provide UC Davis undergraduates with a closely-mentored research experience in biology. Because insects can be used as model systems to explore virtually any area of biology (population biology; behavior and ecology; biodiversity and evolutionary ecology; agroecology; genetics and molecular biology; biochemistry and physiology; cell biology), faculty in the program can provide research opportunities across the full sweep of biology. The program’s goal is to provide academically strong and highly motivated undergraduates with a multi-year research experience that cultivates skills that will prepare them for a career in biological research.
Applications are now being accepted from first and second-year students and first-year transfer students. The application deadline is April 10. More information is on the program’s website.
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
Communications specialist
UC Davis Department of Entomology
(530) 754-6894