Open Access“Zooming” Our Way through Virtual Undergraduate Research Training: A Successful Redesign of the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program
Author(s) -
Leena Malayil,
Masoud Negahban-Azar,
Rachel E. Rosenberg Goldstein,
Manan Sharma,
Jeanne Gleason,
Amy Muise,
Rianna Murray,
Amy R. Sapkota
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of microbiology and biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1935-7885
pISSN - 1935-7877
DOI - 10.1128/jmbe.v22i1.2625
Subject(s) - internship , excellence , center of excellence , medical education , covid-19 , computer science , medicine , political science , disease , pathology , database , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on education globally, forcing the teaching community to think outside the box and create innovative educational plans to benefit students at home. Here, we narrate how the undergraduate, laboratory-based Summer Internship Program of our CONSERVE Center of Excellence, which focuses heavily on engaging women and underrepresented minorities in STEM programming, took a turn from an in-person research experience to a fully virtual one.