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Our Team
Dan Yanes
Civil Engineering
Yanbo Fang
Computer Science
Pat Donley
Mechanical Engineering
Brittany Williams
Computer Science
Facilitating Research Opportunities for Duke Undergraduates - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Facilitating Research Opportunities for Duke Undergraduates - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Facilitating Research Opportunities for Duke Undergraduates Patrick Donley, Yanbo Fang, Brittany Williams and Dan Yanes Our Team Dan Yanes Yanbo Fang Pat Donley Brittany Williams Civil Computer Mechanical Computer Engineering Science
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Constructal Law, Mechanical Engineering Finite Element Simulations, Computational Mechanics Center for Metamaterials and Integrated Plasmonics
None of these awesome labs have undergraduate researchers!
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Our Journey
- Dr. Karin Reuter-Rice, Duke
University School of Nursing
- Dr. Christine Payne, Duke University
Departments of Chemistry and Mechanical Engineering
Our Journey
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Student Methods for Finding Research Opportunities
Asking older students for referrals Faculty websites / professor bios Talking to professors they have in class Major listservs
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The Problem: The current system for matching students with research
- pportunities on campus is ineffective and inequitable.
Our Proposed Solution: Create a centralized matchmaking database to connect students to research opportunities on campus.
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MUSER
Sheila Patek
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Current MUSER Awareness
In a survey of 67 Duke students interested in research, only 61.2% had heard of MUSER
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Current MUSER Usage
Of the 41 students who had heard of MUSER, only 34.3% had used MUSER to apply for a research position
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Reframing our Solution
The Problem: The current system for matching students with research
- pportunities on campus is ineffective and inequitable.
Our Proposed Solution: Create a centralized matchmaking database to connect students to research opportunities on campus by popularizing MUSER.
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Discovered that an effective database already exists; the issue was getting buy-in from both sides of the market
Students
- ~7,000
undergraduates
- Student population
refreshes every 4 years
- Our area of
expertise Laboratories
- Less than 200 labs
- n campus with low
turnover
- Could call on each
lab head to tell about MUSER if necessary
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The Plan
- 2. Establish MUSER as the dominant method for finding research opportunities for the incoming
freshman class by marketing to the class of 2023 starting at Blue Devil Days this Spring
- 1. Deliver a template to MUSER with information on what mechanisms/contacts to use to
market MUSER to incoming freshman classes
- 3. MUSER will become standard across the Undergraduate student body in four years
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Sample Framework
Event Contact Important Dates Other Notes Blue Devil Days Alecia Manhato (Admissions Office) Happens in late March/ Early April Sheila will be a panelist at one of the events Duke Blue Book Office of Student Affairs Mails in June, is published in April In talks with Student Affairs to have a page in the book O-Week/ FACs FAC board sets agenda for O-Week Happens in late August, agenda finalized over the summer Brittany is a former member and is reaching
- ut to the current exec
Academic Advisers Multiple, listed on DukeHub and other websites Contact before new school year Dan is in contact with multiple advisers/ pre-health advisers Activities Fair Emilie Dye, UCAE Contact over the summer Emile confirmed MUSER can have a booth
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Our Value to MUSER
Establish MUSER as the centralized hub for connecting students and researchers Market MUSER to incoming freshmen Create sustainable framework for marketing going forward Establish MUSER as the go-to place for undergraduates looking for research opportunities
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MUSER’s Value to Research
Establish MUSER as the centralized hub for connecting students and researchers Easier for students to find research on campus Eliminates the need for cultural capital and removes potential implicit bias Better fit between students and research labs/ less attrition Better and more research on campus
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Value of Research
- Learning opportunity for students
- Better outcomes for labs (more research papers, more innovation)
- Inspire passion and interests in students
- Imagine the impact of 100 more students doing research each year! Or the
impact of reducing the attrition rate of student researchers by 25%!
- Duke Students have the power to change the world and more and better
research opportunities will help them do it!
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Impact
George Church (‘74) Scott Guthrie (‘97) Kimberly Blackwell (‘89, ‘97, ‘00) Blake Wilson (‘74)