Ooops . . Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Cornell

YeloPen
Sat, 02 Apr 2011 01:24:21 +0000

One of the best features of science at Yale is the availability of research opportunities. There is a list of over 100 professors on the Yale Undergraduate Society for Biological Sciences website that are open to undergrads interested in research; most of them are professors at the medical school and some are from Yale College. I e-mailed 5 of them expressing interest in their research and received positive responses from all within a week, so I could choose who I wanted to work with, instead of them choosing me. All for a freshman who also has had no prior research experience. I am currently a member of a genetics lab where I’m doing a very interesting independent project (under the instruction of the professor himself, not a post-doc, and no one else is working on the project except me!). The professor is truly interested in giving me the best research experience possible, so I’m kind of in charge of my own project and not simply doing random tasks to help out a post-doc.