Photo: Shrida Sahadevan, BSc Honors, Neuroscience and 1st year Rehabilitation Science student. URI Research project: Bridging the gap between mathematics and psychology to explain learning and memory. “I had always wanted a career in Medicine. However, after exposure to this line of research, I am given another career path that has its own special benefits”.
Research Certificate in Science (Biological Sciences)
UAlberta’s Undergraduate Research Initiative
The Research Certificate, the first of its kind in Canada, will provide an opportunity for undergraduate science students to engage in authentic and focused research.
The Undergraduate Research Initiative (URI) offers students a number of ways to be involved in research at the undergraduate level. A number of science students have received research grants for self-directed research projects ranging from “Dinosaur bones in our own backyard” to “Mapping industrial carcinogenic air emissions in Alberta”.
Through a series of project based courses and close mentorships provided by UAlberta researchers the program will equip students with transferable skills that will lead the pathway for an excellent foundation for continuing studies at the professional or graduate level or for employment in industry or government.
1/3 of students receiving stipends from the Undergraduate Research Initiative were from the Faculty of Science.
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