If you are an undergraduate student I figured I would alert you that REU's are outstanding opportunities for learning and figuring out what direction you want to go with your career/future.
I participated in an REU at Illinois State as an undergraduate and it 100% convinced me what I wanted to do. A friend of mine also did undergraduate research of this sort, and after 6 weeks decided he never wanted to do research again, today he is a pharmacist and perfectly happy. That really is the point of an REU, pay an undergrad to experience what a career in research is about. I loved it, my friend hated it. But neither of us would have had a clue had we not done it. Just a thought for the undergrads who might have read the advertisement from Travis and wondered about it. On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 9:47 PM, Travis Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > In December we will begin accepting applications for the Summer 2016 NSF > Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program based at Colby > College > and in South Gondar, Ethiopia. This REU provides eight American > undergraduate students from diverse academic backgrounds an opportunity to > conduct path-breaking interdisciplinary research on the ecological, > economic > and cultural roles of church forests. Church forests are patches of > Afromontane forest surrounding Ethiopian Orthodox churches. Preserved for > centuries by church leaders and communities as religious sanctuaries, > church > forests are, in many parts of Ethiopia, the only indigenous forests left. > Under the eight-week summer REU program students will receive training at > Colby College in ecological field methods, spatial analysis using > Geographic > Information Systems (GIS), social survey research, and written and oral > communication. They will then travel to South Gondar, Ethiopia to conduct > hands-on fieldwork with mentors from Colby College, the California Academy > of Sciences, and local academic and government institutions. Applications > will be accepted beginning December 1, 2015. The application deadline is > February 15, 2016 via the REU-in-Ethiopia webite: > http://www.colby.edu/reu-in-ethiopia. > -- Malcolm L. McCallum, PHD, REP Link to online CV and portfolio : https://www.visualcv.com/malcolm-mc-callum?access=18A9RYkDGxO “Nothing is more priceless and worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is a many-faceted treasure, of value to scholars, scientists, and nature lovers alike, and it forms a vital part of the heritage we all share as Americans.” -President Richard Nixon upon signing the Endangered Species Act of 1973 into law. "Peer pressure is designed to contain anyone with a sense of drive" - Allan Nation 1880's: "There's lots of good fish in the sea" W.S. Gilbert 1990's: Many fish stocks depleted due to overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution. 2000: Marine reserves, ecosystem restoration, and pollution reduction MAY help restore populations. 2022: Soylent Green is People! The Seven Blunders of the World (Mohandas Gandhi) Wealth w/o work Pleasure w/o conscience Knowledge w/o character Commerce w/o morality Science w/o humanity Worship w/o sacrifice Politics w/o principle Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
