Independent research?

Jweinst1
Tue, 13 May 2014 20:15:08 +0000

@Lilliana330‌

I am a Sophomore, and started my project the beginning of this past semester. For my project, I first found a lab I was interested in, and wrote up a Research Proposal, which is in a sense an Essay, of your hypothesis that you want to explore, and cited references that advocate why your idea would work in an experimental project, which was about 5-7 pages total. I first submitted this to the Principal Investigator of the lab, to make sure that I had a senior professor that was interested in sponsoring me with lab space/equipment. So far, I have not had to apply for an additional funding because I have had sufficient resources from the lab.

Overall remember for any of your research to get published, it would need to have a PI’s name on it as well. so the easier your project will be approved is if you have more cited evidence from other papers, and also if your project is closely related to the PI’s interests. It’s very likely something your interested in will have a lab that does that type of research.