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<Title>Seeking Bio Students for PAID research in NYC this summer</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">A special request arrived this morning that we encourage UMBC students to apply for the paid summer research opportunity described below. Students without research experience should be applying to 15 to 17 programs for summer 2015. <br><br>Announcement for UMBC Students: <br><br><p>We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for Summer 2015 admissions to our <strong>BIOLOGY </strong>Research
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    History.  Details about the program can be found on our website: <a href="http://www.amnh.org/our-research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/academics-and-research/fellowship-and-grant-opportunities/undergraduate-fellowships" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://www.amnh.org/our-research/richard-gilder-graduate-school/academics-and-research/fellowship-and-grant-opportunities/undergraduate-fellowships
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     Please contact Maria Rios at <a href="mailto:mrios@amnh.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">mrios@amnh.org</a> <span>if you need any further information.</span></p><br></div>
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<Title>Researcher of the Week: Nickolette Hanzigiannis</Title>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="48698" important="false" status="posted" url="https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/lsamp/posts/48698">
<Title>Summer Research Opportunity in Biomedical Sciences</Title>
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<Title>Summer Research Opportunity in Ecology</Title>
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<Title>Researcher of the Week: Hannah Korangkool</Title>
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I knew this was a cultural perspective that expanded more upon the Western canon of spicy and colorful cuisine of Thailand.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Is this your first independent artistic project?</strong></div><div>I have done a collaboration project for <a href="http://umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/research/URCAD/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">URCAD 2014</a>, but this is my first independent piece.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How much time do you put into it?</strong></div><div>During June-July 2014, I was working with Local Color Film Studio in Bangkok as a full-time intern. Through a proposal process that required thorough research and production design, my film was approved to be produced with a few employees as my crew. The first month I dedicated 10 hours a week of studying and designing for the proposal. The second month, my weekends were dedicated to documenting my travels and experiences of street food and fresh markets. After the summer, the fall-winter semester were dedicated to editing the final products.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you hear about the Undergraduate Research Award (URA) program?</strong></div><div>My Linehan scholar director, Doug Hamby, informs all of his scholars about the opportunities of the URA.</div><div><br></div><div>What kind of background did you have before you applied for the URA?</div><div>As a junior Graphic Design major, I have had plenty of background in designing, but also in photography and film. I have been to Thailand three times before this project and cooking Thai food is a heavy interest and hobby of mine.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Was the application difficult to do?</strong></div><div>I personally felt the application format was a bit difficult in expressing an art abstract, but it is a straightforward process.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How much did your mentor help you with the application?</strong></div><div>My mentor played a significant role in helping me expand and decide my project’s direction in a clear manner. He also assisted me with the (much needed) editing process of the application.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What has been the hardest part about your research?</strong></div><div>As any over-zealous artist and food-lover, I had the habit of taking more than I could chew. This project was very challenging to produce, and sometimes some things had to get cut for the sake of keeping the message clear.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Did you have any unexpected experiences?</strong></div><div>Well, I arrived four days after a coup was enforced, but it was surprisingly not as restrictive as you’d imagine. One of my fellow interns at the studio was a film student and from the famous Amphawa Floating Market, so he was an amazing resource for traveling and assisting documenting. Lastly, I have developed a new understanding of bonding and trust from this experience.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How does your research relate to your work in other classes?</strong></div><div>In design courses, we are challenged every day to produce media that is attractive with clarity for an audience to understand. This project will expose a culture in a creative, but clear manner. 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<Title>Writing a Strong URA Proposal Workshop TODAY!</Title>
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<Title>Natural History Research Experiences: NOW ACCEPTING APPS!!</Title>
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<Title>Researcher of the Week: Brandon Alexander</Title>
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It can also be helpful to ask your friends or professors to read your personal statement and give suggestions.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What was your summer research project this year?</strong></div><div>My project focused on finding an expansion for a fundamental solution to Laplace’s equation in rotationally-invariant cyclidic coordinates. Basically, Laplace’s equation is a fairly important partial differential equation in physics and you usually want to use a coordinate system that best matches your problem. Similar work has been done on the more well-known coordinate systems, like spherical or cylindrical coordinates, but very little has been done in these coordinates.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Who was your mentor for this project? </strong></div><div>My mentor was Dr. Howard Cohl from the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division in the Information Technology Laboratory.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How much time do you put into this work? </strong></div><div>We were full-time employees for eleven weeks, so we had to show up for eight hours a day, five days a week. I did take advantage of the various weekly seminars and special events, which helped break up the week into more manageable chunks.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Were you paid? Where did you live?</strong></div><div>We were paid a stipend of $5500 ($500 per week). The program also provided free housing at a nearby apartment-style hotel with transportation to and from the NIST campus each day.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What academic background did you have before you started?</strong></div><div>Before starting, I had taken three semesters of advanced math, physics, and computer science courses. The most relevant courses that helped with my research were Partial Differential Equations and Differential Geometry.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How did you learn what you needed to know for this project?</strong></div><div>Anything I didn’t come in knowing, I had to learn on my own. The best sources I found were the internet and textbooks in the NIST Math Library. It’s crucial to double-check any of your sources, though. Over the course of my project, I found, and corrected, at least five errors in the literature, in both on-line and print sources.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What was the hardest part about your research?</strong></div><div>The hardest part about my research, and probably research in general, is finding something new and interesting in so little time. Eleven weeks may seem like a lot of time, but you quickly find that a lot of time is lost going down the wrong path, usually due to a typo somewhere. The good news is that you eventually become an expert at what you’re doing: a derivation that originally took me a week to go through I could eventually do for other problems within a few hours.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What was the most unexpected thing?</strong></div><div>I was originally assigned to a project that I quickly found was not suited to my interests. I spoke up to my adviser and we figured out a new project that was much more geared towards my skills and interests. My adviser was very accommodating and for that I am extremely thankful.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>How does this research relate to your course work at UMBC?</strong></div><div>Through research I was finally able to use the techniques and concepts I learned in the classroom. Key concepts for my research were Laplace’s equation and separation of variables from Partial Differential Equations and coordinate transformations and the metric tensor from Differential Geometry. That said, being involved in research also means learning new skills and concepts that you would likely never see in the classroom. Research is the process of continually learning and applying your knowledge.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research?</strong></div><div>My advice is to start early and get to know your professors. Not only will they be writing your letters of reference for internship and graduate school applications, but some of them are just interesting people to talk to. Also, the more you interact with them, the more they can say about you. Professors who do research themselves may even be able to offer you a position in their own lab.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>What are your career goals?</strong></div><div>I hope to attend graduate school after graduating from UMBC to pursue a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. My long-term goal is to work at a university so I can be involved in both research and teaching.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Read his abstract here...</div></div>
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