UNL Graduate Studies: Summer Research Program

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers an intensive summer research experience for undergraduate students from all institutions. It provides mentoring and research experiences while allowing scholars to preview graduate school life. Students with a strong interest in graduate programs are particularly encouraged to apply.

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[00:00:01.518]For me it's been a great experience.
[00:00:03.286]Oh my gosh, the campus is amazing.
[00:00:05.303]The lab facilities are on point, they're great.
[00:00:07.846]It's exciting trying to come up with things that
[00:00:09.982]nobody's done before.
[00:00:11.436][professor] There might only be three cells across.
[00:00:13.161]Most kids graduate from college not really knowing
[00:00:15.166]what it means to do research.
[00:00:16.852]Here, I've gotten a very clear idea of what it's like.
[00:00:20.454]We give them a problem and a framework
[00:00:23.798]and then say go ahead and go solve that problem.
[00:00:26.318]My relationship with my mentor is great.
[00:00:28.886]She's definitely very easy to talk to.
[00:00:31.397]I'm hoping to inspire in her a love for research.
[00:00:35.254]What it teaches me is patience and persistence
[00:00:38.654]because not everything can get done the first time
[00:00:41.846]you do it and then the persistence to keep doing it
[00:00:44.174]and to keep fixing it and to make it as perfect as possible.
[00:00:47.006]We're working in a group of five on this research project
[00:00:49.566]and we're all studying the same question.
[00:00:51.726]You have that aha moment when you finally figure something out.
[00:00:54.718]And you really get a rush from that.
[00:00:57.190]The group of kids that are with our program are amazing.
[00:01:00.286]I've made great friends, lifelong friends actually.
[00:01:03.423]Lincoln's got some fun places.
[00:01:05.363]It's just kind of a short walk downtown.
[00:01:07.691]We play soccer, we play volleyball, but when we want
[00:01:10.091]to go downtown we usually go have dinner and
[00:01:12.643]go to the movies.
[00:01:13.739]Everyone here has scientific interests and they're just
[00:01:16.628]different ages and origins, so it's nice to
[00:01:18.283]meet different people.
[00:01:20.251]The research symposium is a collection of posters from
[00:01:24.371]all the students.
[00:01:25.588]It just give a brief overview of my project.
[00:01:28.387]You definitely have to be able to present and
[00:01:30.131]it's great to get practice.
[00:01:31.787]This is definitely somewhere I'm going to apply to.
[00:01:34.113]I've always liked science and coming here has
[00:01:37.059]definitely reinforced that I want a career in science.
[00:01:40.067]I've had a lot of fun, I've met a lot of really nice people.
[00:01:43.323]It's given me a chance to do research,
[00:01:45.899]find out what it's like and to see that I like it.
[00:01:48.131]It's been a great experience for me.
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