Virtual Undergraduate Research Experiences: More Than a Pandemic Stopgap

During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, experimental research groups face a unique challenge: how to train undergraduates without access to labs. We share our experience developing entirely virtual undergraduate research internships and make a case for virtual research as a complement to traditional undergr...

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Autores principales: Samad, Tahoura, Fleming, Heather E., Bhatia, Sangeeta N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8837396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35187514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2021.01.007
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