How did you guys go about finding research?

[UTWANNABMD]

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Who should I ask? Go around to labs? I feel like a lot of people I know have connections that I don't have that get them research positions.

 

[Snarkalark]

i just emailed PIs saying i was interested in their work until one emailed me back.

 

[Frazier]

Muh brudda, I wood start bye chekin out dat der serch funktion.

 

[Ponger]

i just emailed PIs saying i was interested in their work until one emailed me back.

Seconded. Another idea is to talk to lab TA's. They're usually graduate students who may have an idea if their PI needs some student help or not.

Also sometimes just asking your professors if they have open jobs is useful.

 

[MilkmanAl]

"Hey, professor _____, I'm interested in doing some research. Do you have any projects going currently that I might be able to get in on?"

 

[Cleavername]

i got mine by pure luck. one day i was volunteering for a hospital, i was in a room making some medical charts. suddenly some guy wallked in and greeted me, then precede on asking me if i was interesting in doing some research. i thought to my self, "what are the chances lol". now i got 2 pretty awesome researches going on in the hospital.

 

[NickNaylor]

Summer programs:

http://tinyurl.com/22wxezl

 

[Emerica]

Summer programs:

http://tinyurl.com/22wxezl

How do you go about making yourself competitive for those summer research programs if you do not have previous research experience?

IIRC, Cole, you did a summer program. Did you have previous research experience before being accepted into it? I ask because I'm interested in applying to some of those summer research programs but seeing as most, if not all, of the labs at my school are filled for this semester I will not have previous experience.


Thanks

 

[Remuneration]

Most programs aimed at undergraduates, especially those aimed at freshmen/sophomores, don't expect much in the way of previous lab experience. Having strong grades in the foundational subject matter helps to demonstrate your interest and basic capability to pursue research in a discipline.

 

[JFK90787]

I had to do some stuff I'm not proud of

Anyone have a tic-tac?

 

[theacks1]

Assuming you mean basic science research, first try and figure out if you are interested in a particular topic. For me, it was developmental biology. Every department will likely have a website with the faculty listed and anywhere from a blurb about their research to links to their lab website. There were researchers involved in developmental bio in a bunch of different departments in both my school and the nearby medical school. I e-mailed the professors whose work I was most interested in, saying who I was and what I liked about their work. Soon, I had a positive response, and began work immediately afterward.

Finding clinical research involved a similar, though a bit more convoluted process, where I e-mailed various chiefs about shadowing under a department in the medical school's teaching hospital and later asking the chief if there were any opportunities.

TL/DR, every department will have a website, listing researcher's work and contact information. E-mail them until something good happens.

 

[mccarty7]

At my school there is an undergraduate research coordinator. You can probably find out if your school has one by just contacting the Biology Department. If not, some schools require professors to do some sort of active research. I would just ask my Bio/Chem teachers if they need any help or if they know anyone that does.