Planned Activities for the 2013 REU Program
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- Ten week laboratory research project
- Welcoming party and extensive orientation
- Housing in a dorm with students in similar summer research programs
- Workshops on applying to and interviewing for graduate school
- GRE prep course (optional)
- Presentations by invited speakers to discuss careers and future research directions in academia, industry, and government
- Ethics in Research Workshop
- Informal discussion of graduate training with current graduate student and postdoc mentors.
- Journal clubs with graduate students
- Presentation skills workshop
- Attend a Durham Bulls baseball game and other social activities
- End-of-program Symposium for students to present results of their research and featuring a distinguished keynote speaker
