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Your Summer Research at FOMD Think Boldly Dream Big Be Responsible Elena Posse de Chaves, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience Phone: 780-492-5966 Email: elena.chaves@ualberta.ca What Can You Expect from your Summer Research?

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Your Summer Research at FOMD

Think Boldly Dream Big Be Responsible

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Elena Posse de Chaves, Ph.D. Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience Phone: 780-492-5966 Email: elena.chaves@ualberta.ca

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What Can You Expect from your Summer Research?

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Why would you spend your summer doing research?

I envision pursuing a career in research

I want to know how scientific research really works I need a job I did it last year and I loved it!!!

I need a letter of recommendation for my future school application

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What can you get from a Summer Research at FOMD?

Learn how science really works

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http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/howscienceworks_01

HOW SCIENCE REALLY WORKS

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The Real Process of Science

http://www.understandingscience.org

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There are many routes into the process of Science

http://undsci.berkeley.edu

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Scientific testing is at the heart of the process

http://www.understandingscience.org

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The scientific community helps ensure science’s accuracy

http://www.understandingscience.org

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The process of science is intertwined with society

http://www.understandingscience.org

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The Process of Science is not pre-determined

http://www.understandingscience.org

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What can you get from a Summer Research at FOMD?

Learn how science really works

Enrich your perspective

  • n scientific

medical research

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Canada’s Health Research Enterprise

http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/48964.html

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What can you get from a Summer Research at FOMD?

Learn how science really works

Enrich your perspective

  • n scientific

medical research

Find out that this is your way to change the world

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Your Summer Research at FOMD

Think Boldly Dream Big Be Responsible

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“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 – 1986) Physiologist and Nobel Prize recipient

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You are trying to answer an important scientific question

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You

Your work will represent an important piece of the puzzle

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Improve your

  • rganizational skills

The summer research program

  • ffers opportunities to:

Become competent at performing experiments

  • Maintain a well-organized lab book
  • Plan the experiments in time and

manner

  • Follow the plan as much as possible
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Some days I don’t know what I am doing……. I am frustrated!!! You would learn how to deal with the unpredictability of science

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You would appreciate the importance of perseverance

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Will I ever have

my own

research ideas?

With time you would develop

  • riginal research ideas
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You would become a critical thinker

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What can you get from a Summer Research at FOMD?

Learn how science really works

Enrich your perspective

  • n scientific

medical research

Become an advocate for science Find out that this is your way to change the world

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Why is Important to Communicate Science to the Public?

The majority of policy makers and people in positions of power are not scientists Misinformed members

  • f the public bombard

researchers with suffocating new regulations Public trust in scientists seems to be decreasing and this is shaping policy makers attitudes towards the negative Money from the taxpayer fund research

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The general population has notably different views from those of the scientific community on key science-related issues

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An Opinion Gap Exists Between the General Public and Scientists on Science and Technology Topics

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https://blog.wellcome.ac.uk/2016/04/12/how-do-the-public-really-feel-about- science-and-research/

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In an age of such rapid scientific and technological advancement we risk widening the gap between scientists and the public “Speaking up for the importance of science to society is our only hope…”

Leshner, A. I. Bridging the opinion gap. Science 347, 459, doi:10.1126/science.aaa7477 (2015).

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What can you get from a Summer Research at FOMD?

Learn how science really works Realize that scientific research is not for you

Enrich your perspective

  • n scientific

medical research

Become an advocate for science Find out that this is your way to change the world

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Whatever path you follow, you’ll have a learning experience that makes a true and lasting impact in your future

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Your Summer Research at FOMD

Think Boldly Dream Big Be Responsible

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It is important to keep in mind that….

  • Our work is supported by the public
  • Our research impacts the public
  • The public should be able to understand

what drives us, and how they have supported us to develop our research

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Number 1 Responsibility: HONESTY