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Plasticity and not adaptation is the primary source of temperature-mediated variation in flowering phenology in North America
Phenology varies widely over space and time because of its sensitivity to climate. However, whether phenological variation is primarily generated by rapid organismal responses (plasticity) or local adaptation ...
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Induced drought strongly affects richness and composition of ground-dwelling ants in the eastern Amazon
Species loss in tropical regions is forecast to occur under environmental change scenarios of low precipitation. One of the main questions is how drought will affect invertebrates, a key group for ecosystem fu...
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Understanding Mentorship
Our focus in this book is on mentors and mentoring, not supervising, managing, or advising. This chapter begins by defining mentors and mentorship in the broad sense and then, more specifically, in the context...
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Finding a Research Experience
This chapter discusses the importance of an undergraduate research experience in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or medicine (STEMM) and how it differs from lecture-based or “active” classroom l...
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Recruiting and Selecting Students
This chapter discusses recruiting and hiring diverse undergraduate researchers, with an emphasis on “recruiting for potential.” Even a relatively short undergraduate research experience can make an enormous di...
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Getting Ready
Success in an undergraduate research experience requires adequate preparation. This chapter organizes the prep-work into manageable steps: (1) knowing yourself and clearly setting and communicating expectation...
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Doing Research with Undergraduates
Doing research with undergraduates can be rewarding on many levels: from something as simple as introducing a student to the joys of asking a question to something as tangible as a successful co-authored paper...
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Education
Education is the second leg of the three-legged stool that is the undergraduate research experience. Researchers are always learning new tools and techniques that help do research better, but there are a wide ...
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Evaluation
Successful mentoring of undergraduate researchers doesn’t end with the conclusion of a relatively short research experience. Taking the time to evaluate the research experience—its short-term effects on the st...
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Continuing the Research
New questions and directions that were identified during an initial research experience can be used to prepare for another one. This chapter provides guidance on how to share one’s research and experience to a...
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Fledging Your Mentees
In this final chapter, three important topics involved in guiding one’s mentee in new directions are addressed: (1) the range of post-graduate opportunities for your mentee; (2) writing strong letters of recom...
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Becoming a Mentor
The final chapter in this book focuses on “paying it forward” to the next generation of STEMM professionals. Following a successful undergraduate research experience, students should find their own voices, emb...
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Funding Undergraduate Research
This chapter discusses the financial costs of supporting undergraduate researchers and undergraduate research experiences. It is important to identify these costs before committing to mentoring undergraduate r...
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Applying for a Research Experience
This chapter discusses the process for crafting a more formal (and usually online) application and interviewing for undergraduate research experiences. These are important skills to master because success rate...
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Building a Research Community
Being part of a professional community of collegial researchers is critical to long term success in any STEMM field. This first of three chapters on mentoring students through their undergraduate research expe...
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Research
The undergraduate research experience can be conceptualized as a “three-legged stool,” whose legs are research, education, and community. First among equals, an undergraduate research experience gets you doing...
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STEMM Education is More Than Training
Successful research experiences are not lab exercises with known outcomes or inquiry-based learning activities. Rather, undergraduate research experiences are collaborations between mentors and mentees in whic...
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Community
This chapter discusses the third leg of the undergraduate research experience: the importance of being part of a community of professionals. Because scientific research increasingly is done in collaborative te...
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Continuing the Research Experience
This chapter discusses ways to continue to support student mentees in research beyond the formal time frame of an undergraduate research experience. Both short- and longer-term avenues continuing to participat...
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Building on the Experience
This chapter focuses on continuing to do STEMM research beyond the undergraduate degree. Because most STEMM professionals do not have a post-graduate degree, this chapter presents and discusses a range of care...
