Overview
UBRP is pleased to announce the Interdisciplinary Computational Thinking and Plant Biology Research Program for Undergraduates in the Quantitative and Physical Sciences (Interdisciplinary UBRP-CT)
This program is designed to introduce undergraduate students majoring in quantitative disciplines (e.g. computer science, information sciences, statistics, mathematics, and engineering) and plant biological sciences to interdisciplinary research related to solving plant biology problems using computational thinking. Students will work in research laboratories of faculty who are affiliated with the University of Arizona's Undergraduate Biology Research Program and with the iPLANT Collaborative. Each student will receive individual mentoring from the faculty member in whose lab s/he works.
The program consists of a 12 week paid summer research experience supplemented with a weekly professional development seminar, a seminar on alternate weeks related to activities of the iPlant Collaborative, and other activities coordinated with iPlant faculty and grad students. Interdisciplinary UBRP CT students will be included in the supplemental UBRP activities including seminars, field trips and social events. Students will present their experimental results in poster form at the annual UBRP conference.
Interdisciplinary UBRP – CT is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation for the iPLANT Collaborative (grant # EF-0735191).
The application deadline is February 1, 2009.
More information can be obtained from:
Carol Bender - bender@email.arizona.edu