Entering research: A course that creates community and structure for beginning undergraduate researchers in the STEM disciplines

CBE Life Sciences Education

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 108-118

  Balster, Nicholas ^a   Pfund, Christine ^a   Rediske, Raelyn ^a   Branchaw, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICS; PERSONNEL; SCIENCE; STUDENT; TECHNOLOGY; UNIVERSITY;

ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICS; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENCE; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 77954042669     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19317913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1187/cbe.09-10-0073     Document Type: Article

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